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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.

Monday, May 1, 2023

R is for Red Mist

No, not my forthcoming rant against the entire computer industry, but the first of two Swift Morgan stories from The New Spaceways Comic Annual, and some sources (I haven't checked the dates) name him as Britain's first space hero, which is a bit rough on Well's characters . . . and he surely shares the birthday with Zip O'Daly?
 
Condar ('condor'!), Buck, Dare, Flash, Hardy, Swift, Zip  . . . they were all names of daring do, weren't they!
 

(Image courtesy of Brian Berke)
 
(Image courtesy of Brian Berke)
 



I seem to have lost/deleted the scan of pages 32/33, probably in the whole three new PC's in a fortnight shenanigans, back in Jan'/Feb', but Brain came to the rescue with that one, so many thanks to him.

The only notable space vehicle is a sort of Spacex/Marx crossover having elements of the former's Mobile Moon HQ and the later's refuelling 'space tank'. It's a better story than the 'Hard Dick' one too!

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