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Colin Smith
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 6h
So that was Monday October 13th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Released this very day in 1966, the wrong-in-so-many-ways Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #98, with its cover by C. Swan & G. Klein.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 6h
So that was Monday October 13th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Released this very day in 1966, the wrong-in-so-many-ways Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #98, with its cover by C. Swan & G. Klein.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10h
Today in the life of Kitten Pants and Kitten Mayhem …
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h
The view west along East 125th street from Park Avenue, Harlem, New York, 1989, by Camilo Jose Vergara.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 9h
Yep.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 9h
A character sheet for the quite frankly adorable Benny The Ball, for 1961’s Hanna-Barbera Productions’ animated sitcom “Top Cat”, which seems to have been considerably more popular in the UK than America.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10h
Today in the life of Kitten Pants and Kitten Mayhem …
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 12h
An undated & red-helmeted Judge Dredd, as painted by Bill Sienkiewicz.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h
Oh indeed!
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 14h
I’ve always been fascinated by old “best-of” lists. Here, from a battered tome from the 1920s I picked up this morning, is “The World’s Best Books”. To read through these, it is promised, will be to have the mind “enriched” & leisure time “abundantly satisfied”.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 15h
“Lee Miller in Manhattan”, by Georges Lepape, the cover to March 15th 1927’s Vogue.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17h
Lou Reed, New York, April 1968, by Billy Name.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17h
Also, one of the greatest Zabus ever!
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17h
It staggers me Alfredo Alcala created such wonderful work for a throwaway ad for Marvel’s mid-70s magazine line. Printed in Planet Of The Apes #3, “Ape-Fredo” produced these beautiful cartoons of the Likes of Conan, Dracula & Frankenstein as simians. Why did no-one have AA create a strip like this?
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h
And for those who acquired that first issue there was a cheap’n’cheerful Captain Britain mask to be had.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h
Good morning! It’s Monday October 13th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Dated this very day in 1976, a mere 49 years ago, the debut issue of Marvel UK’s shortlived weekly title “Captain Britain”, with its cover by Larry Lieber & Frank Giacoia.)

You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
I share a similar feeling. The lighting effects & the background world alone - if I can simplify things so shamefully - remind me very much of 50s and even 60s illustrations.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
So that was Sunday October 12th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Out this very month in 1974, just 51 years ago, the hugely enjoyable Planet Of The Apes #3, with its cover by Bob Larkin.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
“I’ve accidentally come out dressed as Rupert the Bear.”
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
Frank Quitely’s really rather wonderful variant cover for this year’s Batman & Robin: Year One #9.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
(Moorcock of course later wrote a Dr WHO novel.)
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
In 1975, Ellison would’ve been first exposed to Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor and one of the episodes from season 12 or 13. So it’s understandable that he and Moorcock thought something special was going on.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
That’s from Ellison’s 6-page forward to 1979’s American edition of Terrance Dicks’ Doctor Who And The Daleks from Pinnacle Books, in which he writes with evident passion about the virtues of the Doctor’s adventures. Which I can’t help but find rather touching.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d
This afternoon’s exhausted nap from Kitten Mayhem & Kitten Pants, who, just a few weeks ago, looked tiny and lost in this old chair & now come close to filling it.
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