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Crivens! Comics & Stuff
19.05.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS H ere's a quick question for you, Crivvies. Which comicbook would you've liked to see 'touched' by a particular art...
S ame as last week - I could hardly stay awake through it. Exterminate! 'Nuff said.
16.05.2024
Copyright DC COMICS A ctually, it's the recent Facsimile Edition and is very nice indeed. I don't recall whether I ever had the original o...
15.05.2024
I 've just spent the last 20 minutes or so 'conversing' with an old friend. He died 11 years ago (which I only found out about in September...
13.05.2024
Images copyright relevant and respective owners I don't know about you, but when I buy a facsimile edition of a comicbook, I don't expect (...
12.05.2024
L et's not waste words - the two episodes were dreary drivel, turgid tosh, and pointless pish. I could barely stay awake through either of ...
09.05.2024
Copyright DC COMICS T hree DC Facsimile Editions to drool over, Crivvies. Two new from 2023 and '24, and one old from 1992. Detective Co...
05.05.2024
A new comics shop opened in East Kilbride in Scotland back in March, with loads of great stuff that's sure to appeal to a wide range of cus...
01.05.2024
Original effects. Copyright relevant owner M ore years ago than I can now recall, I purchased the original series (all three) of Star Trek ...
28.04.2024
Images copyright MARVEL COMICS B ack in 2015 and 2016 I recommended the first two volumes of The Complete Howard The Duck , containing every...
23.04.2024
Copyright DC COMICS I f I bought the above book in its year of publication (2008), I've now owned it for 16 years. However, it's possible I...
21.04.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS A nother couple of Marvel classic collectables added to the fold, Crivvies. I've already got Journey Into Mystery ...
Copyright relevant owners I t's been many years since I owned a Scalextric set - decades in fact, way back in the '60s - and I have no plan...
20.04.2024
Copyright BBC TV A few years ago I read somewhere about a privately-produced 'fan' Annual of Dr. Who featuring William Hartnell . The ide...
17.04.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS N ewly arrived at Castel Crivens, the latest addition to my burgeoning collection of goodies, without which my life ...
13.04.2024
I 'll refrain from making the obvious "two 'puddies' for the price of one" remark (oops, I just did) because I don't want you to think I'm ...
Copyright DC COMICS A n issue of Action Comics #1 was recently sold by Heritage Auctions for a record price of £4.75 million . Above is m...
12.04.2024
I 'm pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable here on Crivens by publishing a picture of a wee bear with absolutely not a stitch on. I'm...
09.04.2024
I recently visited Planet KRALKA on a whistle-stop inter-galactic tour, where I spied the most amazing sight. Believe it or not, there ...
Copyright BBC TV and the Estate of TERRY NATION D one it! Finally managed to get a second copy of The Dalek Outer Space Book , meaning I n...
07.04.2024
Copyright BBC TV A s far as I know, there were only two Dr. Who Annuals in the '60s that bore William Hartnell's image on the covers, the ...
Copyright relevant owner A s I've said on Crivens several times before, memory is a funny thing. Case in point: I remember FRANKIE STEIN a...
06.04.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS B ack in 2019, to celebrate 80 years of Marvel/Timely/Atlas , Marvel published the two comics you see before you. I...
05.04.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS H ere's a brief post simply to showcase the above cover by John Buscema , who was surely the finest artist ever to d...
03.04.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS H ere's an interesting little mag published back in 1980 that I didn't know existed until I saw and purchased it fro...
26.03.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS I n a previous guest post on Kid's blog, I talked about some of the positive benefits that modern digital technology...
25.03.2024
Copyright MARVEL COMICS A h, the memories the above cover evokes, 50 years after buying my original copy in 1974. This one is a replacement...
16.03.2024
I don't recall giving Lynda Carter a key to my house, but when I got home from the shops the other day, there she was, reclining on my s...
A irfix skeletons, that is. I've got more than that if I count ones by other makers, but Airfix ones will do for now. (After all, I have ...
15.03.2024
T hat Diana Rigg - I dunno what anyone sees in her! (Lesson 1 in 'How To Use Irony In Everyday English' . I'm a master!)
Copyright DC COMICS and, more importantly, GOD 'T was, I think, the month of April, in 1983, that a pal roped me in to wallpaper his kitche...
14.03.2024
Copyright relevant and respective owners A bove is a nice little book that I imagine all fans of Dan Dare would like (and will probably alr...
Copyright BBC TV and the estate of TERRY NATION I already own many early episodes of Doctor Who on DVD, including the first serial featur...
10.03.2024
Smudges on the right of the cover, which aren't on the original. Copyright DC COMICS H ere's a trio of recent Facsimile Editions from D...
05.03.2024
Copyright relevant owner N ot long arrived at Castel Crivens, the Fireball XL5 World Space Patrol Technical Operations Manual . You don't n...
Copyright DC COMICS S aw this hardback 2021 reprint of the 1973 Official Metropolis Edition Amazing World Of Superman over on Rip Jagger's ...
H ere's my new girlfriend, who just happens to bear an amazing resemblance to Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter . If you swallow that, I'm ...
02.03.2024
S uddenly, whenever I try to add a photo to a new post, I get an 'error occurred' message and I can't add any images. Any other bloggers fi...
Copyright MARVEL COMICS Y 'know, something about SPIDER-MAN's origin that never really gelled with me was the idea that he had the propor...
Y ou'll remember me showing you some A3 cover enlargements I'd framed back in November 2022 (see here ), and mentioning that there was one p...