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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

A is for Adventure Story for Boys

Actually, it should be 'L is for Lazy Post'! With Ed sending his scan's to Moonbase I need to clear some of my scans, before they post them and I end-up waiting a few years until the coast is clear, if you know what I mean!
 
So this is a story from Adventure Stories for Boys, nineteen fifty-something. I think it was the one with a helicopter on the cover, but it was in such a state that after I'd scanned the space stuff a year or so ago, it went in the recycling pile.
 
Notable for the use of a rocket which looks like the Hilco/Cherilea cast-lead one, and a ring/wheel space-station from central casting!

Annual's fly-leaf.
I think the artist might be Tony Bradman?










The metal model courtesy of the late Martin Hills, the book illustrator has added four fins and called it a 'Thunderbird', years before anyone had heard of Gerry Anderson; there's nothing new under the sun!

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