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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 32m

😀 😀 😀

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 40m

A really darn good point 👍

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 47m

I was very much the same myself in all those ways.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 59m

Credits where they’re due, mon amis, from the Grand Comics Database 👇

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1h

It’s been years since I read 1964’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. Crikey but Steve Ditko was at the top of his game. Visually, I can’t help but believe it’s the definitive Spidey. If such a thing exists, it exists here. (*1)

*1: Other opinions are readily available.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2h

I would SO like to read that!

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2h

Out this very month in 1991, just 34 years ago, Batman/Judge Dredd:Judgment on Gotham #1 with its iconic cover by Simon Bisley.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 4h

Cecil Beaton & David Hockney, Reddish House, 1970, by Peter Schlesinger.

“The toughness”, as Alan Bennett wrote, “of the dandy”.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 4h

Waterfront, New York City, from sometime in the 1960s, by Erich Andres.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning! It’s Wednesday October 8th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Dated this very day in 1983, a mere 42 years ago, 2000AD #337, with its cover featuring Nemesis the Warlock by Kevin O'Neill.)

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

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 5h

Alt text is something that I have to be 100% better with. I will be working on that.

But in this case, I’d rather not open my account up to the responses which giving more information about this …person might bring. I hope you’ll understand.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h

It’s hard some mornings to retain any faith in the species as a whole.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning! It’s Wednesday October 8th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Dated this very day in 1983, a mere 42 years ago, 2000AD #337, with its cover featuring Nemesis the Warlock by Kevin O'Neill.)

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

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18h

So that was Tuesday October 7th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Out this very month in 1989, just 36 years ago, Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1, with its cover by John Bolton with Alex Jay.)

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

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18h

So that was Tuesday October 7th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Out this very month in 1989, just 36 years ago, Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1, with its cover by John Bolton with Alex Jay.)

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

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Dated this very month in 1988, the very first issue of the splendidly idiosyncratic Deadline, with its cover featuring its soon-to-be-breakout-star Tank Girl by Jamie Hewlett.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h

I’m absolutely sure that’s 110% true 👍

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Jean De Brunhoff’s absolutely classic front cover for the original 1931 edition of his “Histoire De Babar Le Petit Elephant”.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Why, it’s Thunderbird 1 & Lady Penelope on the cover of The Observer magazine from Sunday 18th December 1966. F.A.B. indeed.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

David Bowie, during a soundcheck for April 20th 1992’s Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness at London’s Wembley Stadium.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 22h

June 1941 character sheet featuring intrepid newspaper reporter Lois Lane, for the classic Fleischer Studios’ Superman cartoons.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 23h

That was a day to be there, no doubt. I’m genuinely chuffed for thee. 👍

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

A queue for bread during a bakery worker’s strike, Wordsley in the West Midlands, 1977, by Phil Loach.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

The interior pages are pretty darn wonderful too.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Jean De Brunhoff’s absolutely classic front cover for the original 1931 edition of his “Histoire De Babar Le Petit Elephant”.

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