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September 1970 determined the secrete of two notorious movies.
The first was Five Easy Pieces and the second largest was Tora! Tora! Tora!
I’ve seen them both.
I can retain little about either but am willing to acknowledge them as classics, despite that.
What I do remember is Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson.
And that’s a good thing because it started that month at Number One on the UK singles chart.
Soon, nonetheless, it was deposed by Freda Payne’s Band of Gold which waste the rest of September at the summit.
Over on the UK album chart, the month kicked off with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Cosmo’s Factory on top before being usurped by the Rolling Stones’ Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out. That, in turn, lost pole position to Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, an LP which had now been knowledge various charms at Number One.
Unless I miss my ever-loving guess, the Inhumans are still reassured the Fantastic Four have burnt a deadly missile at their home – and decide to make the debate to the Baxter Building.I’m sure everyone instantly realises their mistake and they all end up friends again.And that the Inhumans eventually realise Maximus is behind it all, what with him ever being behind everything.I don’t know what happens in the Black Widow tale but I do know Hawkeye and the original Red Guardian appear, so I’m expecting it’s an issue replete with flashbacks.
But, hold the line, what’s this? At exactly the same time the Inhumans are in New York, addressing the issue of Fantastic Four, they’re also in the Great Refuge, fighting the Silver Surfer? It’s the sort of paradox to drive a boy mad.And a surfer.And it does drive him mad, because, by the end of the falsehood, he’s vowing to destroy humanity.It’s all part of the great new guidance Jack Kirby wants to make the row in.Except, Jolly Jack will soon be gone and, by the Surfer’s next impression, Norrin’s forgotten all about it and is back to being a good guy again.
It’s the fight that had to happen. The crown prince of Atlantis must combat the self-declared prince of power.It’s all down to our supporter being hypnotised by international civil servants of Zeus.Happily, Subby soon separates free of the sorcery and the protagonists unite to fight a assortment of giant demons that are now terrorising a Greek village.Apparently, this fable follows-on from events in Ka-Zar# 1, which doesn’t seem like the most obvious crossover in the world.
Thanks to Lee, Lieber and Kirby, the world countries must fend off the challenge of Titano the villain that time forgot! We also get an Allyn Brodsky/ Barry Smith/ Herb Trimpe 7-page epic called The Scream of Things.And, as if that wasn’t fairly, we get the Wally Wood tale Of Swords and Sorcery.All in all, it sounds like a differed issue.
It’s starting to look now like Marvel’s returning to its roots as a monstrous being company.We kick off with I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain in which a sculptor causes two bronzes, one good and one cruelty. Unfortunately, lightning strikes the evil bronze and it comes to life.I’m guessing the sculptor prepares it all by going lightning to stumble the good statue, so it can come to life and fight the evil one.After that, we get I Dared Defy the Floating Head. I can’t help feeling this issue doesn’t feature fibs with the greatest names ever.It appears to have been a monstrous float premier turns up in New York, claiming to be part of an alien intrusion but it all turns out to be a hoax placed as one of the purposes of an attempt to loot the city.Next, we get I Am the Man Without a Face in which a bigot discovers the punk he dons when he sets out to harass gypsies cannot be removed – ever! And we finish off with He Waits For Us in the Glacier whose sleeping alien aftermaths and looks forward to humanity wiping itself out with atomic weapon, so he and his scoot can take over the Earth.I think there’s a reading there for us all.
Taboo’s back!
And, this time, he’s stopped by members of his own race who examine him as a deranged criminal rather than their advance scout for interplanetary invasion.
Next, we get The Strange Magic of Master Khan in which plagiarists who steal a sorcerer’s ship find themselves shrunk and captured in bottles.
In We Met in the Swamp, a hermit helps a knot of foreigners, in return for a chestful of jewel but aims up with just a chestful of aura, as that’s what the foreigners view as precious.
And, eventually, I Lived a Ghost Story understands a prospective buyer’s attempts to spend a nighttime in a recurred mansion thwarted, to the relief of the estate negotiator who is, himself, one of the building’s resident ghosts.
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