The Super DC Calendar for 1977 2022: July Jousting and Jurisprudence

Well, more macing than jackhammering, but Hawkman's classic big-ass weapon doesn't start with J, and after June and now July I'm kinda running out of J-words. I'm in such jeopardy!

Anyway, enjoy the Hawks all this month because this 1977 calendar also functions as one for 2022! And it's set in my favorite city after Brooklyn, London! Don't you dare dent Big Ben, Carter Hall!

"July 1977," from Super DC Calendar 1977 (DC, 1976), art by Joe Kubert
(Click picture to Benjamin, Big-size)

The Best Rodents Infesting a Department Store Commercial You've Never Seen

Christmas 2015 commercial for British department store Harrods

WhoTube

When I saw this house ad for the following issue in Doctor Who Classics #4, I got really excited...


...(incidentally: Photo Reference Sighted Off the Starboard Bow, sir!)...



...I got really excited not because Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor was going to meet Sarah Jane Smith, the companion of the Third and Fourth and Tenth Doctors (and only those three Doctors, if you want to pay attention to a silly little thing called canon):


Panels from "Train-Flight" in Doctor Who Classics Series V #5 (October 2013), script by Andrew Donkin and Graham S. Brand, pencils and inks by John Ridgeway, letters by Glib, new coloring by Charlie Kirchoff, originally published in Doctor Who Magazine #159 (April 1990), "with thanks to London Buses and British Rail for reference material"
But rather because the cover features One of My Favorite Things in the Whole Wide World™, The London Underground Map.

Today in Comics History, October 17, 1814 and 1940: BEST. FLOOD. EVER.

It's October 17, and lots of stuff happened today in comics history. Don't believe me? Let's check out what The Doctor and Rory "I'm Dead, Jim" Williams are up to!


from Doctor Who (2012 series) #3 (IDW, November 2012), script by Brandon Seifert, pencils and inks by Philip Bond, colors by Charlie Kirchoff, letters by Shawn Lee

My bees eat because I'm a landowner*

My best pal John is doing movie reviews all this week over at Unseen Films, and tonight's little bit of cinema is 1967's The London Nobody Knows. Both me 'n' John L-U-V London, so discovering this documentary for the first time was great. How else would I have known there was such a lucrative career to be had in egg-breaking?



I think I have my eventual life career all figgered out.

Oh, there's lots more, and more serious stuff, in the film. (You can watch the whole thing here. But please check out John's review, too!) It's hosted and narrated by James Mason. The Voice of God! So you know it's gonna be good.


*My favorite misreading of the lyrics for this song:

Lego Superman Over London!

You're welcome!



Via The Guardian

Same Story, Different Cover: I saw a spider with eight Chinese menus in his hands / Crawling through the streets of Soho in the rain

Now here's an interesting one...

L: Amazing Spider-Man #95 (April 1971), pencils by John Romita Sr., inks by Sal Buscema
R: Spider-Man Comics Weekly #128 (July 21, 1975), pencils by John Romita Sr., inks by Sal Buscema
(Click any picture to Ben-size)

I'm guessing someone at Marvel UK's London offices actually knew that Westminster Bridge (which runs across the Thames by Big Ben Tower and the Houses of Parliament) is not Tower Bridge, which is actually about two and a half miles downriver.

Millie the Model in London, Night #7 and Goodbye

Panel from Modeling with Millie #54 (June 1967), script by Gary Friedrich, pencils and inks by Ogden Whitney

Millie the Model in London, Day #7

Panel from Millie the Model #141 (September 1966), script by Denny O'Neil, pencils and inks by Stan Goldberg

Millie the Model in London, Night #6

Panel from Millie the Model #153 (September 1967), script by Gary Friedrich, pencils and inks by Bill Williams

Millie the Model in London, Day #6

Panel from Millie the Model #141 (September 1966), script by Denny O'Neil, pencils and inks by Stan Goldberg

Millie the Model in London, The Covers! #5

Cover of Millie the Model #153 (September 1967), art by Ogden Whitney

Millie the Model in London, Night #5

Panel from Millie the Model #140 (August 1966), script by Denny O'Neil, pencils and inks by Stan Goldberg

Millie the Model in London, Day #5

Panel from Millie the Model #141 (September 1966), script by Denny O'Neil, pencils and inks by Stan Goldberg

Please stand by

We're experiencing technical difficulties (mostly with rassin'-frassin' Flickr), so I'm going to wait until my return to the land of Arby's and Dan Rather to post my London photos and experiences. So stay tuned (later on) to learn all about my visit to Harrods (and my startling encounter with Mohamed Al-Fayed in the Egyptian Hall), the most exclusive donut in the world, how to drive a Routemaster bus through a busy museum, and my trip to must-visit London comic book shop Orbital Comics. Until then...give Flickr a good kick in the side for me, folks!

Millie the Model in London, The Covers! #4

Cover of Modeling with Millie #54 (June 1967), art by Ogden Whitney and John Romita, Sr.*

*Which must explain the Mary Jane Watson-esque Millie in the corner box!

Millie the Model in London, Night #4

Panel from Millie the Model #153 (September 1967), script by Gary Friedrich, pencils and inks by Bill Williams

No empty bench in Soho Square

An empty bench in Soho Square
If you'd have come you'd have found me there



One day you'll be waiting there, no empty bench in Soho Square
And we'll dance around like we don't care



One day you'll be waiting there, no empty bench in Soho Square
No I don't know the reason why I'll love you till the day I die
But one day you'll be waiting there
Come summertime in Soho Square
And I'll be painting stars up in the sky
Before I get too old to cry before my birthday
I hope I see those pigeons fly before my birthday
In Soho Square on my birthday

Millie the Model in London, Day #4

Panel from Millie the Model #141 (September 1966), script by Denny O'Neil, pencils and inks by Stan Goldberg

Millie the Model in London, The Covers! #3

Cover of Millie the Model #147 (March 1967), art by Bill Williams