With the success of the 1966 Batman TV series Alfred was brought back into the series, not a reboot, but part of the continuing storyline, how this occurs will be shown in due course, but there are one or two more stories to come chronologically before that happens…
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 31,059Chief of Staff
99.9% of those league ladders were “popped” and played with, which leaves “un-popped” ladders as extremely rare, so the prices have fetched as much as £250 for a virgin set - used ladders (complete with team tabs) can fetch upwards of £100.
Readers of the football magazine Shoot! will no doubt remember those, as they were given away in Shoot! #1 (1969) and yearly thereafter for decades. However, Valiant were the first to give them away free way back in September 1964.
It was a simple concept: a single sheet of card, with pre-cut "Team Tabs" down each side which you'd pop out and place in the pre-cut slots on the division "ladders". (Third and Fourth Division teams usually came free in following issues.) Every Sunday kids would scan the football pages in the newspaper for each team's position, and change the tabs around to accurately reflect their latest standing. Great fun!
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
TV FUN Annual lasted for 4 years 1957-1960 and portrayed a number of famous faces from the gogglebox. The TV Fun Annual 1958 had Arthur Askey jumping through a circus hoop on the cover and a painting on the back cover of singer Petula Clark swinging on a jungle vine over a river. There’s quite a lot of flesh on show in this annual and interestingly such flashes of flesh would be discouraged by Fleetway editors in the 1960s, an otherwise more liberated decade.
The Professor Jimmy Edwards strip used a formula of sight gags and wordplay every few panels. Some of the gags must have felt corny even then!
There were a lot of pretty girls on display to hook the older readers, and our own Shirley Eaton the Modern Miss in Merry Moments was flashing a fine pair of legs then falling into a Teddy Boy's groin area years before she'd be dallying with James Bond in GF.
Sally Barnes Our Little Lady Make Believe ended up winning a beauty contest with plenty of leggy contestants on view.
Diana Decker, The Cutie Queen of the TV Screen, slips on a polished floor in her near-transparent nightdress.
But this is 1958 and white characters are mostly drawn in a realistic style by the artists. This was expected for strips based on celebrities of course. However, practically every ethnic character in the book is drawn as an archaic stereotype. In Ben and His Buddies, the gang comprises boys who are American, Native American, black, and Chinese. The American boy Ben is defined by dressing as a cowboy and saying things like "Yahoo!" but the others use racist dialogue. The good-looking Ben is the leader whilst the un-named Buddies have the stereotypical rubber lips or buck teeth.
Mississippi Max and His Axe is particularly offensive (even by 1958 standards), what the editor thought he was doing by including this is beyond comprehension . The racial caricature of Max looks barely human. The ethnic character is subservient to the white kids of the strip. What it does show is how appalling racism is and how far we have come in putting things right, but it was a long hard slog as this sort of thing continued into the next decade and beyond, although in a gradual lessening degree as time passed.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Bugger - should have kept mine 🫣 I liked the fact that on the ‘tab’ part they printed what the teams home ground was called…I can still recall loads of those…particularly the Scottish ones ☺️
Brush up on your Spanish or get your Spanish-English app working! These are adaptations of the books - so if you are familiar with the plots of those, then following the strips will be relatively easy.
Chilean publisher Zig-Zag acquired the rights to create their own independent James Bond comic which lasted for 59 issues between 1968 and 1971. Titled 007 James Bond, the fully coloured series included original material and adaptations of the James Bond novels. The Chilean series was artistically modelled on the films and utilised the likenesses of many of its performers, including Sean Connery. Whether the actors got any payment for this I do not know.
007 JAMES BOND #22 - De Rusia Con Amor (From Russia With Love) Part 1/2
Concludes tomorrow…
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
I can understand the opening chapters being compressed but apart from Bond’s being Connery the characters don't quite match up to my image of them (which is separate from the movie).
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 31,059Chief of Staff
I wonder if Connery knew his likeness was being used? Or was he paid? You wouldn’t have thought it was something he’d let slide…
Still, seeing these foreign language adaptations is marvellous…thanks @CoolHandBond 🍸
I did wonder this myself, as stated above, but I don’t have an answer. Thank you for your appreciation of these foreign adaptations and I will continue to post them 🍸
Brush up on your Spanish or get your Spanish-English app working! These are adaptations of the books - so if you are familiar with the plots of those, then following the strips will be relatively easy.
Chilean publisher Zig-Zag acquired the rights to create their own independent James Bond comic which lasted for 59 issues between 1968 and 1971. Titled 007 James Bond, the fully coloured series included original material and adaptations of the James Bond novels. The Chilean series was artistically modelled on the films and utilised the likenesses of many of its performers, including Sean Connery. Whether the actors got any payment for this I do not know.
007 JAMES BOND #22 - De Rusia Con Amor (From Russia With Love) Part 2/2
More James Bond next week…
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
FRWL is a wonderful story in any form (well, I haven't played the game) and this is a really good version even if like me your Spanish is almost non-existent. Some parts are really close visually to the film, and others toned down from the book.
Yes, it’s a very good adaptation with understandable changes like Bond not being poisoned at the end as in the book but following the film version. Mrs CHB is very good in Spanish (Filipino dialects are based on the Spanish language) so she is able to translate for me the gist of what’s being said and son of CHB then puts his twopence in as well 😁 Me? I’m only proficient in a few phrases of Cebuano to get me by, but seeing as almost everyone here speaks English it’s not a problem for me in everyday life 😁
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Those are good words - This is not the end of our mission. It's the beginning - and arguably better than the "One small step" speech.
Amis argued that the Bond books were providing Brits with some fictional compensation for having lost by the 50s their pre-eminent position in the world. Well, the above story is doing pretty much the same.
There’s a late change to the schedule as the latest instalment of The Department of Truth has landed, at last! So, the Chilean James Bond strips resume next week instead.
WARNING: The content of this comic strip contains very strong language not permitted in the ongoing threads of this site. It also contains themes that some readers may find upsetting. Reader discretion is advised for those who may be easily offended. The content has been cleared for posting by the moderators.
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Agreed, Wertham was the solution to a non-existent problem. I believe a reboot brought Alfred back anyway. BTW, good story.
With the success of the 1966 Batman TV series Alfred was brought back into the series, not a reboot, but part of the continuing storyline, how this occurs will be shown in due course, but there are one or two more stories to come chronologically before that happens…
I used to get a new one every season…they were fiddly to use at times…
Really? For ‘un-popped’ That’s quite surprising…😳
99.9% of those league ladders were “popped” and played with, which leaves “un-popped” ladders as extremely rare, so the prices have fetched as much as £250 for a virgin set - used ladders (complete with team tabs) can fetch upwards of £100.
Readers of the football magazine Shoot! will no doubt remember those, as they were given away in Shoot! #1 (1969) and yearly thereafter for decades. However, Valiant were the first to give them away free way back in September 1964.
It was a simple concept: a single sheet of card, with pre-cut "Team Tabs" down each side which you'd pop out and place in the pre-cut slots on the division "ladders". (Third and Fourth Division teams usually came free in following issues.) Every Sunday kids would scan the football pages in the newspaper for each team's position, and change the tabs around to accurately reflect their latest standing. Great fun!
TV FUN Annual lasted for 4 years 1957-1960 and portrayed a number of famous faces from the gogglebox. The TV Fun Annual 1958 had Arthur Askey jumping through a circus hoop on the cover and a painting on the back cover of singer Petula Clark swinging on a jungle vine over a river. There’s quite a lot of flesh on show in this annual and interestingly such flashes of flesh would be discouraged by Fleetway editors in the 1960s, an otherwise more liberated decade.
The Professor Jimmy Edwards strip used a formula of sight gags and wordplay every few panels. Some of the gags must have felt corny even then!
There were a lot of pretty girls on display to hook the older readers, and our own Shirley Eaton the Modern Miss in Merry Moments was flashing a fine pair of legs then falling into a Teddy Boy's groin area years before she'd be dallying with James Bond in GF.
Sally Barnes Our Little Lady Make Believe ended up winning a beauty contest with plenty of leggy contestants on view.
Diana Decker, The Cutie Queen of the TV Screen, slips on a polished floor in her near-transparent nightdress.
But this is 1958 and white characters are mostly drawn in a realistic style by the artists. This was expected for strips based on celebrities of course. However, practically every ethnic character in the book is drawn as an archaic stereotype. In Ben and His Buddies, the gang comprises boys who are American, Native American, black, and Chinese. The American boy Ben is defined by dressing as a cowboy and saying things like "Yahoo!" but the others use racist dialogue. The good-looking Ben is the leader whilst the un-named Buddies have the stereotypical rubber lips or buck teeth.
Mississippi Max and His Axe is particularly offensive (even by 1958 standards), what the editor thought he was doing by including this is beyond comprehension . The racial caricature of Max looks barely human. The ethnic character is subservient to the white kids of the strip. What it does show is how appalling racism is and how far we have come in putting things right, but it was a long hard slog as this sort of thing continued into the next decade and beyond, although in a gradual lessening degree as time passed.
Corny and distasteful. Comics moved on a lot since then, though as you say sometimes only gradually.
Bugger - should have kept mine 🫣 I liked the fact that on the ‘tab’ part they printed what the teams home ground was called…I can still recall loads of those…particularly the Scottish ones ☺️
Brush up on your Spanish or get your Spanish-English app working! These are adaptations of the books - so if you are familiar with the plots of those, then following the strips will be relatively easy.
Chilean publisher Zig-Zag acquired the rights to create their own independent James Bond comic which lasted for 59 issues between 1968 and 1971. Titled 007 James Bond, the fully coloured series included original material and adaptations of the James Bond novels. The Chilean series was artistically modelled on the films and utilised the likenesses of many of its performers, including Sean Connery. Whether the actors got any payment for this I do not know.
007 JAMES BOND #22 - De Rusia Con Amor (From Russia With Love) Part 1/2
Concludes tomorrow…
I can understand the opening chapters being compressed but apart from Bond’s being Connery the characters don't quite match up to my image of them (which is separate from the movie).
I wonder if Connery knew his likeness was being used? Or was he paid? You wouldn’t have thought it was something he’d let slide…
Still, seeing these foreign language adaptations is marvellous…thanks @CoolHandBond 🍸
I did wonder this myself, as stated above, but I don’t have an answer. Thank you for your appreciation of these foreign adaptations and I will continue to post them 🍸
Brush up on your Spanish or get your Spanish-English app working! These are adaptations of the books - so if you are familiar with the plots of those, then following the strips will be relatively easy.
Chilean publisher Zig-Zag acquired the rights to create their own independent James Bond comic which lasted for 59 issues between 1968 and 1971. Titled 007 James Bond, the fully coloured series included original material and adaptations of the James Bond novels. The Chilean series was artistically modelled on the films and utilised the likenesses of many of its performers, including Sean Connery. Whether the actors got any payment for this I do not know.
007 JAMES BOND #22 - De Rusia Con Amor (From Russia With Love) Part 2/2
More James Bond next week…
FRWL is a wonderful story in any form (well, I haven't played the game) and this is a really good version even if like me your Spanish is almost non-existent. Some parts are really close visually to the film, and others toned down from the book.
Yes, it’s a very good adaptation with understandable changes like Bond not being poisoned at the end as in the book but following the film version. Mrs CHB is very good in Spanish (Filipino dialects are based on the Spanish language) so she is able to translate for me the gist of what’s being said and son of CHB then puts his twopence in as well 😁 Me? I’m only proficient in a few phrases of Cebuano to get me by, but seeing as almost everyone here speaks English it’s not a problem for me in everyday life 😁
And once again I learn something new. I didn't know that about the Filipino language.
I see that “Oh James!” is the same in any language 🤣
Nice adaptation 🍸
WARNING: Contains language and scenes that may cause offence - proceed at your own caution.
MINISTRY OF SPACE (2001-2004) Chapter 2 Part 2/3
Continues tomorrow…
It pulls the reader in, like all good stories should.
Is that true about Bader's leg killing a housewife? Never heard that before if it is.
The 1953 timing is contemporary with the first Quatermass tale, which is also all about Britain launching the first manned spaceflight.
As far as I know it’s a bit of dramatic licence, unless someone knows different?
Yes, the Quatermass timeline connection is interesting.
I’m enjoying this tale too 😁
WARNING: Contains language and scenes that may cause offence - proceed at your own caution.
MINISTRY OF SPACE (2001-2004) Chapter 2 Part 3/3
The third chapter begins next weekend…
Those are good words - This is not the end of our mission. It's the beginning - and arguably better than the "One small step" speech.
Amis argued that the Bond books were providing Brits with some fictional compensation for having lost by the 50s their pre-eminent position in the world. Well, the above story is doing pretty much the same.
Edit- and the artwork is very enjoyable, too.
This weeks birthday comic covers 26 May - 1 June…
Nice mixed bag of covers.
Oohh, Rupert the Bear…I had the one annual…
DETECTIVE COMICS #334 - December 1964 - The Man Who Stole From Batman - Part 1/2 - In which The Outsider first appears.
Concludes tomorrow…
Nice 60s fun story. I'm half thinking the Grasshopper turns out to be Alfred back from the dead with selective amnesia.
Time will tell 😁
DETECTIVE COMICS #334 - December 1964 - The Man Who Stole From Batman - Part 2/2 - In which The Outsider first appears.
More Batman next week…
I still think my theory is right, although now applied to The Outsider.
Your knowledge of mystery stories may well be spot on 😁
There’s a late change to the schedule as the latest instalment of The Department of Truth has landed, at last! So, the Chilean James Bond strips resume next week instead.
WARNING: The content of this comic strip contains very strong language not permitted in the ongoing threads of this site. It also contains themes that some readers may find upsetting. Reader discretion is advised for those who may be easily offended. The content has been cleared for posting by the moderators.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH - Chapter Twenty One - He’s Finished When He Quits - Part 1/2
Continued tomorrow…