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Colin Smith

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 39m

Good morning! It’s Saturday October 11th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Released this very month in 1947, a mere 78 years ago, Batman #44, with its cover by Jim Mooney, Charles Paris & Ira Schnapp co-starring Robin and The Joker.)

You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 6h

Concert poster for Lou Reed’s gig at Glasgow’s Apollo Centre on Monday 3rd June 1974.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 9h

So that was Friday October 10th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Out this very month in 1981, just 44 years ago, 2000AD #233, with its darn thrilling cover featuring Judge Dredd by Ron Smith.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10h

Jane Weaver’s Love In Constant Spectacle sounds absolutely perfect at 20 to 11 on this Friday night. But then, she really doesn’t make poor albums …

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 11h

The Third Avenue elevated train in the New York rain, 1951, by Esther Bubley.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 12h

That’s from 1986’s Swamp Thing #49, with the credits below, everyone involved firing on all cylinders…

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 12h

Just one single page of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing - here with artists Stan Woch & Alfredo Alcala - can be more enjoyable than many folks’ entire issues. This is, on the surface, nothing more or less than a page of 2 people talking. But what a conversation, & how visually interestingly the discussion.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

It’s the popular favourite amongst discerning viewers.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

Quite agree. I have to remember that 5 is really darn huge for it to seem impressive to me. Without that gosh-gee-wow context, yes, it lacks magic in toy form.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

Hurrah for 4!

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

Two is very cool too 👍

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

The new Corgi TB5 with TB3 living inside it has a similar appearance pour moi

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

(Other kids of the Space Age may have other TB fondnesses.)

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

I love em all. But as a child of the space age, I can’t help but love The Three the most.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 14h

Just reading about it & a lot of their dosh was indeed taxed at above 90%. Some authorities say 94%. So, yes, punitive.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 14h

Thunderbird 3 - the best of all Thunderbirds! - with Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, c.1966, from the Observer magazine.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 14h

Well, I’m so ancient I can recall living in a world where folks like The Beatles were paying at least 83% tax on the vast majority of their income. So it must have felt incredibly punitive. But yes, today, it must often lack that context & sound to many selfish & reactionary.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 14h

I choose to believe it was a 24/7 Bunny-Provider service.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 16h

I love this. A poster by artist Ed Bauer & printer Conrad Kayser advertising their combined creative services, c1960, Hamburg. I do hope this gem did its job. It deserved to.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17h

👍 👍 👍 It really is a splendid chart that shames most of them.

And yet Revolver still sounds light years ahead of most of the tracks. That’s v. cool :)

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 19h

A thoroughly fantastical movie poster for the release of 1968’s “Planet Of The Apes” in The Socialist Republic of Romania.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 19h

Madness :(

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Why haven’t I been doing that? What a great idea 👍

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h

La rentrée du soir, by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, 1897.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 21h

I truly don’t know what’s triggered it, but this phrase from Tacitus keeps coming to mind today:

“They make a desolation and they call it peace”.