Initially I hadn´t planned on making a post Today since Tomorrow is Adam Hughes birthday and I will not finish this post until then. But since it is not only STAR WARS DAY but also FREE COMIC BOOK DAY in America I decided, what the heck, why not give the STAR WARS comic newbies a little taste of what they are missing out if they only read the new comics.
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Now I am not trying the new comics by Disney or the one that came out from Dark Horse. Though I have not read a lot of the new Disney series I did read a few of the TRUE BELIEVERS issues and they were pretty solid.
And while I have not read ALL of the Dark Horse STAR WARS books ( which probably only the diehard STAR WARS fans did ) there were a few series I thoroughly enjoyed. No, it´s just that - and longtime readers can attest that - the original STAR WARS series by Marvel Comics will always have a special place in my heart. Maybe nostalgia has something to do with it since KRIEG DER STERNE was the first comic book I read in german that continued adventures which started in a movie. Another factor may be that a lot of the creative people that were involved in that series like Al Williamson ( whom I just mentioned in one of my latest posts), Howard Chaykin, Walter Simonson, Tom Palmer, Ron Frenz, Frank Miller or Carmine Infantino ( who drew the bulk of the issues ) are people whose work I still enjoy and seek out. Speaking of Carmine Infantino, I have only one page of his original art in this post but not because I don´t appreciate it but because I have so much that I will have to do a solo Carmine Infantino STAR WARS post somewhere down the line. Probably when the section with the birthdays in this post gets too long and I make a spin - off post.
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I wish I could give you some life altering wisdom garnered from the STAR WARS Marvel Comics but the truth is that while I have managed to get all three omnibus books I still haven´t found the time to read them. Despite that I still want to pimp them because as I said the art and writing is top notch and you can easily find them at a discount at amazon. So the usual hefty price should be no deterrent to obtaining them. So strap in for an adventure in a galaxy far, far away and don´t mind the giant, talking green rabbit with the ray guns. One last thing before we come to the original art I selected for this post ( and which this time was found almost exclusively on ComicArtFans ) you might notice that there are two different kinds of color pages and the reason for that is that I prefer to post the coloring of the original comics over the new coloring. I won´t get into the reasons for that here ( we can do a separate post on that if there is enough readers interest ) but the pages with the original coloring are all from a french website that is all about STAR WARS and I will put some links that I used for this post in the usual link section. And now let´s get some great art, have a nice FREE COMIC BOOK DAY but above all May the 4th be with you !
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möge die macht mit dir sein
links
and first of all my last STAR WARS DAY post and
and STAR WARS HOLOCHRON where
color pages from issue 38 and issue 46 and issue 53 and issue 85 and
and you can find more original covers at MARVEL COMICS OF THE 1980s like Waqlt Simonson´s covers for issue 52 and issue 53 and issue 60 or Tom Palmer´s covers for issue 76 and issue 81 and issue 87 and issue 100 and
and THE DORK REVIEW has Frank Miller´s cover for issue 47 and
birthdays
missed birthdays
April 18th Chloe Bennet 27
with Chloe Bennet´s 27th birthday who is best known for her role of Skye / Daisy on Marvel´s Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. as Nick Fury and his secret spy organization always popped up in issues of Fantastic Four. Chloe´s is undeniably grade - a future wife material as you first fall in love with her character, then you begin to realize her hotness and it´s as early as episode three of the first season where she becomes this ultimate woman where you go : " Bathe her and bring her to me. She will make a wife AND a mistress and I think I will tame this one myself. "
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Now you might think this is once again my obsession with asian women at work but that´s not it since I thought she was hot long before I found out that she is half chinese. She also is very funny which makes her my kind of dream girl although I don´t know if she´s into guys who are twice her age.
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agents of shield
David Tennant 48
April 23rd Lee Majors 80
While he´s not as prolific on tv as he used to be and only does the occassional guest appearance on Human Target and the likes he is still very popular because of his roles as Steve Austin on The Six Million Dollar Man and Colt Seavers on The Fall Guy. Some people may even remember him from Raven. As longtime readers of the blog already know I watched The Fall Guy religiously so I just had to mention him.
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Although to tell the truth a big part of that show´s appeal for me as a growing teenager were sexbombs like Heather Thomas and Markie Post who didn´t appear nearly as often in a bikini as I would have liked.
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Well, Heather Thomas did since that was her main purpose on the show butMarkie Post´s appearances in bikinis on The Fall Guy were very few .
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Heather played stunt body double ( and what a body it was ) Jody and her job was to keep the male viewers hooked by providing eye candy. She was in all episodes except for an episode in the first season. Yes, fan service is not as new as some people might want you to think and Heather Thomas mainly got the part because of her absolutely amazing bikini figure. OMG !
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It took a few episodes before she could strut her stuff but once the tv guys got a taste of Heather it happened more often and the famous blue bikini scene was quickly added to the new intro of the second season.
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Thanks to her absolutely stunning 37 ( ! ) - 23 - 32 measurements and the exposure in THE FALL GUY Heather became a famous pin up model with posters in every hormone driven boy's bedroom from that time. She even managed to replace pin up goddess Raquel Welch on the number one spot.
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Markie Post played bail bonds contractor Terri Michaels ( who replaced previous bail bonds contractor Samantha Jack played by Jo Ann Pflug ) beginning with Season 2 and at the beginning she played a minor role.
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One of the producers must have realized what a waste it is to have somebody like Markie on the cast without letting her " show off what her Mama gave her " like they say Today and the rest is 80s tv history. Markie Post got more involved in the stories where she stole the scene from Heather Thomas as soon as she donned a bikini ( mainly in Season 3 ).
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80s Power Girl Markie Post is probably the best known cult siren on the blog because not only have I done many re - posts of her original post .
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I also keep mentioning her in other posts and her original post is in the Top Ten Posts widget that appears on every post. Since I have done so many different versions it is not so tragic that I did not do a re - post last year even though I did the last version of her cult siren entry in 2016 .
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ein colt für alle fälle
April the 25th Johnny Craig
the anniversary of Johnny Craig´s birth ( it feels weird calling it a birthday when the person in question is dead. Birthdays are what you celebrate while you live ) and anybody who knows what a big fan I am of EC Comics is probably surprised that I let the chance pass to put more classic comic cult horror on the blog but like I said earlier because of health issues it was beyond my control. Now I never did any explicit Johnny Craig posts but I posted And All Through The House from The Vault Of Horror 35 ( which is one of the stories that was adapted into the movie from 1972 ) in 2015 in preparation for Halloween and Southern Hospitality from The Vault Of Horror issue 19 in a post on William Gaines anniversary in 2017 that also contains George Evans´ Wined - Up from Crime Suspense Stories issue 19.
April the 26th Kerry Gamill and I did my first Kerry Gamill birthday post last year and
Ingolf Lück 61
The only reason why I´m talking about Formel Eins at all is that Ingolf Lück has his 60th anniversary Today and he was the best host of the show.
Many years before Mtv and VIVA would appear on german screens Formel Eins started which was the worst german music show. But it was the only music show we had then ( if you don´t count Die Deutsche Hitparade which mainly played Schlager music ) so we had to bear the horror of it.
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Peter Illmann was the first host and he was kind of a mack daddy although that only evolved over time. Still, he was not the best host. That dubious honor belongs to his replacement, Ingolf Lück who innovated the show by turning his introductions of the various musical acts and music videos ( they showed both ) into little sketches. It was only downhill after he left as they got their first female presenter Stefanie Tücking who was much too tame for this kind of show and she then handed the reigns over to Kai Böcking who was completely clueless. I remember that in his first show he had Sabrina Salerno as a guest and she was just too much woman for him.
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Sabrina was mostly known for two things ..... well, actually threethings : thetwins ( obviously ! ), lots of wardrobe malfunctions of the tiniestoutfits that were riding up or wet t - shirts and see - through bikinis.
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At the time Sabrina Salerno, the cult siren with the obligatory bouncing action was at theheightofher popularity in Germany thanks to her worldwide number 1 smash hit Boys Boys Boys ( which was especially popular in those countries that showed the uncensored version of her video where her tiny bikini top could not contain the singing sexbomb´s huge melons ) and various articles in teen publications like Bravo and Popcorn and nude pictorials in adult men´s magazines like Penthouse.
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So they had to invite her to Formel Eins which was the music tv for german teenagers. The show was a total train wreck, they always cut the videos because the producer of the show was in Bavaria and they are very catholic and prudish down there. When Sabrina was there as a guest they didn´t play her video and told her she had to do a live performance. Which was obviously more than they bargained for because Sabrina began to shake rattle and roll her boobs up and down like there´s no Tomorrow.
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Of course they were appalled but they could not do anything against it. The camera man tried to prevent the worst by doing a lot of close ups and just filming Sabrina´s head but as you can see it didn´t help that much.
Coming back to Formel Eins, while Kai Böcking did the most shows with 120 episodes they ultimately had to cancel it because of the upcoming competition of Mtv and VIVA who showed all music video in full and not only one per show. By that time Peter Illmann was no longer on tv although after leaving Formel Eins he did two other music programs, P.I.T. - Peter Illmannns Treff and Peter´s Pop Show which were successful for a while.
We expected great things but after one half assed movie Ingolf Lück got relegated to the usual comedy / celebrity nonsense shows that are prevalent on german tv. Germany doesn´t know what to do with talent.
As for Sabrina" Bouncing Action " Salerno, I wrote her first cult siren entry way back in 2014 with annual re - posts in 2015 , 2016 and in 2017 where I always tried to do the ultimate version adding little things here and there.
cult sirens of notice
On April the 29th Uma Thurman turned 49 and you probably expected me to do a post in honor of Uma´s magical boob window cleavage which was so impressive that it granted her an entry in my Search for Power Girl series on my old blog but I already did that in 2012 and there has not happened anything worthy since then that I haven´t already covered.
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Jerry Seinfeld 65 who created the cult show Seinfeld of which the best part was the funny and sexy Elaine Bennet.
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Even though it was not shown to the general public in Germany ( they always aired it when most people were asleep ) I managed to catch a few with Elaine´s best scenes. Her sexiness was always downplayed but there were a few episodes
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elaine on seinfeld
May 3rd Christina Hendricks 44
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Likewise Christina Hendricks ( whom I cast as Maxima in my very first post about CASTING THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA MOVIE ) would be spot on for Rita Medermade, the redhead with the biggest boobs in the Savage Dragon universe with her gigantic megasized 39H ( !!!!! ) medicine balls.
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christina hendricks tribute
todays birthdays
videos
harrison ford on kung fu
mark hamill
star wars comics
thumbelina with carrie fisher
banner
quote of the day
Now I am not trying the new comics by Disney or the one that came out from Dark Horse. Though I have not read a lot of the new Disney series I did read a few of the TRUE BELIEVERS issues and they were pretty solid.
And while I have not read ALL of the Dark Horse STAR WARS books ( which probably only the diehard STAR WARS fans did ) there were a few series I thoroughly enjoyed. No, it´s just that - and longtime readers can attest that - the original STAR WARS series by Marvel Comics will always have a special place in my heart. Maybe nostalgia has something to do with it since KRIEG DER STERNE was the first comic book I read in german that continued adventures which started in a movie. Another factor may be that a lot of the creative people that were involved in that series like Al Williamson ( whom I just mentioned in one of my latest posts), Howard Chaykin, Walter Simonson, Tom Palmer, Ron Frenz, Frank Miller or Carmine Infantino ( who drew the bulk of the issues ) are people whose work I still enjoy and seek out. Speaking of Carmine Infantino, I have only one page of his original art in this post but not because I don´t appreciate it but because I have so much that I will have to do a solo Carmine Infantino STAR WARS post somewhere down the line. Probably when the section with the birthdays in this post gets too long and I make a spin - off post.
I wish I could give you some life altering wisdom garnered from the STAR WARS Marvel Comics but the truth is that while I have managed to get all three omnibus books I still haven´t found the time to read them. Despite that I still want to pimp them because as I said the art and writing is top notch and you can easily find them at a discount at amazon. So the usual hefty price should be no deterrent to obtaining them. So strap in for an adventure in a galaxy far, far away and don´t mind the giant, talking green rabbit with the ray guns. One last thing before we come to the original art I selected for this post ( and which this time was found almost exclusively on ComicArtFans ) you might notice that there are two different kinds of color pages and the reason for that is that I prefer to post the coloring of the original comics over the new coloring. I won´t get into the reasons for that here ( we can do a separate post on that if there is enough readers interest ) but the pages with the original coloring are all from a french website that is all about STAR WARS and I will put some links that I used for this post in the usual link section. And now let´s get some great art, have a nice FREE COMIC BOOK DAY but above all May the 4th be with you !
möge die macht mit dir sein
links
and first of all my last STAR WARS DAY post and
and STAR WARS HOLOCHRON where
color pages from issue 38 and issue 46 and issue 53 and issue 85 and
and you can find more original covers at MARVEL COMICS OF THE 1980s like Waqlt Simonson´s covers for issue 52 and issue 53 and issue 60 or Tom Palmer´s covers for issue 76 and issue 81 and issue 87 and issue 100 and
and THE DORK REVIEW has Frank Miller´s cover for issue 47 and
birthdays
missed birthdays
April 18th Chloe Bennet 27
with Chloe Bennet´s 27th birthday who is best known for her role of Skye / Daisy on Marvel´s Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. as Nick Fury and his secret spy organization always popped up in issues of Fantastic Four. Chloe´s is undeniably grade - a future wife material as you first fall in love with her character, then you begin to realize her hotness and it´s as early as episode three of the first season where she becomes this ultimate woman where you go : " Bathe her and bring her to me. She will make a wife AND a mistress and I think I will tame this one myself. "
Now you might think this is once again my obsession with asian women at work but that´s not it since I thought she was hot long before I found out that she is half chinese. She also is very funny which makes her my kind of dream girl although I don´t know if she´s into guys who are twice her age.
agents of shield
David Tennant 48
April 23rd Lee Majors 80
While he´s not as prolific on tv as he used to be and only does the occassional guest appearance on Human Target and the likes he is still very popular because of his roles as Steve Austin on The Six Million Dollar Man and Colt Seavers on The Fall Guy. Some people may even remember him from Raven. As longtime readers of the blog already know I watched The Fall Guy religiously so I just had to mention him.
Although to tell the truth a big part of that show´s appeal for me as a growing teenager were sexbombs like Heather Thomas and Markie Post who didn´t appear nearly as often in a bikini as I would have liked.
Well, Heather Thomas did since that was her main purpose on the show butMarkie Post´s appearances in bikinis on The Fall Guy were very few .
Heather played stunt body double ( and what a body it was ) Jody and her job was to keep the male viewers hooked by providing eye candy. She was in all episodes except for an episode in the first season. Yes, fan service is not as new as some people might want you to think and Heather Thomas mainly got the part because of her absolutely amazing bikini figure. OMG !
It took a few episodes before she could strut her stuff but once the tv guys got a taste of Heather it happened more often and the famous blue bikini scene was quickly added to the new intro of the second season.
Thanks to her absolutely stunning 37 ( ! ) - 23 - 32 measurements and the exposure in THE FALL GUY Heather became a famous pin up model with posters in every hormone driven boy's bedroom from that time. She even managed to replace pin up goddess Raquel Welch on the number one spot.
Markie Post played bail bonds contractor Terri Michaels ( who replaced previous bail bonds contractor Samantha Jack played by Jo Ann Pflug ) beginning with Season 2 and at the beginning she played a minor role.
One of the producers must have realized what a waste it is to have somebody like Markie on the cast without letting her " show off what her Mama gave her " like they say Today and the rest is 80s tv history. Markie Post got more involved in the stories where she stole the scene from Heather Thomas as soon as she donned a bikini ( mainly in Season 3 ).
80s Power Girl Markie Post is probably the best known cult siren on the blog because not only have I done many re - posts of her original post .
I also keep mentioning her in other posts and her original post is in the Top Ten Posts widget that appears on every post. Since I have done so many different versions it is not so tragic that I did not do a re - post last year even though I did the last version of her cult siren entry in 2016 .
ein colt für alle fälle
April the 25th Johnny Craig
the anniversary of Johnny Craig´s birth ( it feels weird calling it a birthday when the person in question is dead. Birthdays are what you celebrate while you live ) and anybody who knows what a big fan I am of EC Comics is probably surprised that I let the chance pass to put more classic comic cult horror on the blog but like I said earlier because of health issues it was beyond my control. Now I never did any explicit Johnny Craig posts but I posted And All Through The House from The Vault Of Horror 35 ( which is one of the stories that was adapted into the movie from 1972 ) in 2015 in preparation for Halloween and Southern Hospitality from The Vault Of Horror issue 19 in a post on William Gaines anniversary in 2017 that also contains George Evans´ Wined - Up from Crime Suspense Stories issue 19.
April the 26th Kerry Gamill and I did my first Kerry Gamill birthday post last year and
Ingolf Lück 61
The only reason why I´m talking about Formel Eins at all is that Ingolf Lück has his 60th anniversary Today and he was the best host of the show.
Many years before Mtv and VIVA would appear on german screens Formel Eins started which was the worst german music show. But it was the only music show we had then ( if you don´t count Die Deutsche Hitparade which mainly played Schlager music ) so we had to bear the horror of it.
Peter Illmann was the first host and he was kind of a mack daddy although that only evolved over time. Still, he was not the best host. That dubious honor belongs to his replacement, Ingolf Lück who innovated the show by turning his introductions of the various musical acts and music videos ( they showed both ) into little sketches. It was only downhill after he left as they got their first female presenter Stefanie Tücking who was much too tame for this kind of show and she then handed the reigns over to Kai Böcking who was completely clueless. I remember that in his first show he had Sabrina Salerno as a guest and she was just too much woman for him.
Sabrina was mostly known for two things ..... well, actually threethings : thetwins ( obviously ! ), lots of wardrobe malfunctions of the tiniestoutfits that were riding up or wet t - shirts and see - through bikinis.
At the time Sabrina Salerno, the cult siren with the obligatory bouncing action was at theheightofher popularity in Germany thanks to her worldwide number 1 smash hit Boys Boys Boys ( which was especially popular in those countries that showed the uncensored version of her video where her tiny bikini top could not contain the singing sexbomb´s huge melons ) and various articles in teen publications like Bravo and Popcorn and nude pictorials in adult men´s magazines like Penthouse.
So they had to invite her to Formel Eins which was the music tv for german teenagers. The show was a total train wreck, they always cut the videos because the producer of the show was in Bavaria and they are very catholic and prudish down there. When Sabrina was there as a guest they didn´t play her video and told her she had to do a live performance. Which was obviously more than they bargained for because Sabrina began to shake rattle and roll her boobs up and down like there´s no Tomorrow.
Of course they were appalled but they could not do anything against it. The camera man tried to prevent the worst by doing a lot of close ups and just filming Sabrina´s head but as you can see it didn´t help that much.
Coming back to Formel Eins, while Kai Böcking did the most shows with 120 episodes they ultimately had to cancel it because of the upcoming competition of Mtv and VIVA who showed all music video in full and not only one per show. By that time Peter Illmann was no longer on tv although after leaving Formel Eins he did two other music programs, P.I.T. - Peter Illmannns Treff and Peter´s Pop Show which were successful for a while.
We expected great things but after one half assed movie Ingolf Lück got relegated to the usual comedy / celebrity nonsense shows that are prevalent on german tv. Germany doesn´t know what to do with talent.
As for Sabrina" Bouncing Action " Salerno, I wrote her first cult siren entry way back in 2014 with annual re - posts in 2015 , 2016 and in 2017 where I always tried to do the ultimate version adding little things here and there.
cult sirens of notice
On April the 29th Uma Thurman turned 49 and you probably expected me to do a post in honor of Uma´s magical boob window cleavage which was so impressive that it granted her an entry in my Search for Power Girl series on my old blog but I already did that in 2012 and there has not happened anything worthy since then that I haven´t already covered.
Even though it was not shown to the general public in Germany ( they always aired it when most people were asleep ) I managed to catch a few with Elaine´s best scenes. Her sexiness was always downplayed but there were a few episodes
elaine on seinfeld
May 3rd Christina Hendricks 44
Likewise Christina Hendricks ( whom I cast as Maxima in my very first post about CASTING THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA MOVIE ) would be spot on for Rita Medermade, the redhead with the biggest boobs in the Savage Dragon universe with her gigantic megasized 39H ( !!!!! ) medicine balls.
christina hendricks tribute
todays birthdays
videos
harrison ford on kung fu
mark hamill
star wars comics
thumbelina with carrie fisher
banner
quote of the day