Planet of Vampires #1 (Feb 1975). Cover pencils by Pat Broderick and inks by Neal Adams. The cover shows the Astronaut crew of a Mars probe have returned to Earth to find it has been devastated by nuclear and biological warfare. The Earth now has two species -- savages and vampires.

Planet of Vampires #1 (Feb 1975). Cover pencils by Pat Broderick and inks by Neal Adams
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#weekendsingles
Johnny Nash again. This one is much harder to find but it's another blinder.
Falling In And Out Of Love. What a tune this is

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Jack Kirby, with Chic Stone, tells a tale about Jack Ruby’s murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, from May 1967’s Esquire magazine.

I had no idea at all “46 Hours & 36 Minutes In The Life Of Jack Ruby” existed. It’s amazing what you can turn up while trawling through old archives.

Having just watched the trailer, I don't know why Amazon are even bothering to carry on. You can't top this. The perfect Bond movie's already been done.

the Cure, the pink Floyd best of, Delmonas, 13th floor elevators

Troggs, Zombies, Pussy Galore, Buffalo Springfield

Pebbles vol2, Here we go round the mulberry bush soundtrack, Rainy Day, Sonny & Cher best of

Velvet underground, Incense & Oldies compilation, the Pentangle, Astrud Gilberto

#AlbumAlmanac #WeekendSingles
LPs bought in the late 80s by teenage me which made a lasting impression and shaped my musical taste. Predictable I know ⭐️

Happy birthday to Ernie Isley who wrote this evergreen gem
▶️ youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw
And when I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down
#WeekendSingles

Oooh look! Talking Bottom have just started a new series on The Young Ones! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This is a great chat and it reminded me to finally get round to watching Privilege. What. A. Film. "The older generation leading this country to galloping ruin..." Ahem

I'm really looking forward to reading this book

Top 20 Reggae LP chart as published in the UK music paper Black Echoes on 6th March 1976. You can find this chart and more on the great website www.ukreggaehistory.com

The Reggae album chart as published in Black Echoes 50 years ago this week.

It's notable to see that nearly half of the chart are dub LPs and most of the others are roots and DJ albums including U Roy at No. 1. Dread In A Babylon indeed!

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #dub

Free, Open Spaces: Brian Eno's Favourite Records | Page 8 of 14 | The Quietus This was probably the most important pop album for me in that I think it’s the moment where I realised that I could be a musician. It was partly that this band was semi-non-musicians, but it was also ...

He's an annoying old shinehead but he's opened my ears many times. Sent me shopping again: thequietus.com/interviews/b...

The lone Pinkston Bar tenement on Keppochhill Road in the north of Glasgow. The bar was opened in 1889 by the wine and spirit merchant Timothy Warren, with the current tenement being built in 1892.

Cont./

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowpubs #tenement

Next to a drawing of Bizarro, the words “Coming next month in Superboy Comics, a sensational three-part novel - featuring the Boy of Steel’s mightiest opponent - ‘The Amazing Bizarro!’”

Here’s a curiosity! A month before Bizarro’s first appearance in Superboy no. 68 (Oct 1958), this house ad appeared in various Superman-related titles. This one is from Adventure Comics no. 252 (Sep 1958). Interesting that he has a B on his chest instead of a backwards S.

Carmunnock Parish Church on the southern edge of Glasgow. Dating from the 1760s, I love how the external rope for the bell has worn a series of groves in the stonework of the bell tower.

#glasgow #carnmunnock #architecture #church #architecturephotography

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Seth MacFarlane Reveals ‘The Orville’ Season 4 Is Written, Now Waiting On His Schedule It's been a while since we had an update on this homage to Star Trek: TNG.

Seth MacFarlane Reveals ‘The Orville’ Season 4 Is Written, Now Waiting On His Schedule https://bit.ly/orvs4written

This is Healey Dell, “Rochdale’s Chernobyl”, a fairy haunted nature reserve in the shadow of an abandoned asbestos factory, and the subject of one chapter in my PhD thesis.

Morning.

The Fire Engines signing (or, in Hendo’s case, stamping) copies of Chrome Dawns (2024)…

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'Well I ride on a mail train, baby
Can't buy a thrill
Well I've been up all night, baby
Leaning on the window sill'
- 'It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry' by Bob Dylan (1965)
- 📷 Normanton, England, 1980, taken by Napier Ned

$1 Pick up

#NowPlaying

“Reading Is Fun!”

The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.

It’s a belter

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1-SLUGGO IS OUTSIDE OF A RECORD SHOP AND HEARS A SQUARE DANCE RECORD PLAYING SLUGGO: NANCY LOVES TO DO THOSE SQUARE DANCES SLUGGO DOES A LITTLE DANCE AS HE LISTENS TO THE MUSIC P2-SLUGGO GOES IN THE RECORD SHOP SLUGGO: I THINK I'LL BUY HER A RECORD P3- SLUGGO CALLS NANCY ON A TELEPHONE SLUGGO: OH, NANCY ---I BOUGHT YOU A SQUARE DANCE RECORD P4- NANCY ASKS SLUGGO ON THE TELEPHONE NANCY : BUT HOW WILL IT FIT MY PHONOGRAPH?? NANCY IS IMAGINING THAT THE RECORD IS ACTUALLY SQUARE.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 04,1948

Mark E Smith reads the results YouTube video by fernsehturm

For Mark E Smith's birthday, that time he turned up doing the results on "Final Score". Much as I enjoy Jason and his team giving you news of All The Goals As They Go In Around The Grounds on a Saturday afternoon, can't deny that this is the good (and also slightly bewildering) stuff.

Rough Trade 20 (1978-1987)

Today's listening - 20 favourite tunes from the first 10 years of Rough Trade Records, starring The Fall, Subway Sect, Delta 5, Augustus Pablo, Scritti Politti, James Blood Ulmer, The Go-Betweens, Arthur Russell, Cabaret Voltaire, Johnathan Richman, The Raincoats...
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I know how fondly ROM is thought of by many 80s comics fans. Perhaps a few folks haven’t seen Jean Frisano’s covers for the ROM reprints in France’s Strange magazine. Clearly familiar, and sometimes, er, very familiar, & yet different enough in their own fun way.

Post-war High-Rise in Birmingham II: ‘Get these people out of the slums!’ Last week’s post looked at some of the contextual forces behind Birmingham’s post-war volte-face – from a city proclaiming a ‘prejudice against flats’ as ‘one expression of its independence of charact...

🚨 New on Substack: the big buildings, large personalities and rampant corruption that marked Birmingham's high-rise council housing boom if the 1960s:
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