We shall fight them on the beaches, on the fairgrounds and in the sewers!

 Week Ending 22nd June 1974

Last week's Hulk's strip opening splash page featured a strange craft shadowing a disconsolate Bruce Banner, to which I described it as a "vacuum cleaner" looking craft. Later in a comment to that blog, FotB (Friend of the Beesting) Mark Lotinga pointed out that the Leader's craft was a thinly-disguised steal from the 1953 movie version of H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds", directed by George Pal. I got the reference straight away, as that classic movie would often feature on weekday evenings, around 6 or 7 o'clock, on BBC2 as part of a Sci-Fi movie season. BBC2 would sometimes feature classic Sherlock Holmes seasons, Ealing comedy seasons, silent movie seasons and I'm pretty sure there was a Fu Manchu season too, but I always loved the classic Sci-Fi seasons. George Pal used the, what I'm going to call, "the vacuum cleaner" martian craft as an up-date on the original martian tripod. Herb Trimpe, or possibly Roy Thomas, must have been a fan of the Pal movie, as the homage to it is very plain to see. Now I see the connection my appreciation on the design has gone up massively. Thanks Mark great spot.

 

The Mighty World of Marvel #90

This original cover from the Incredible Hulk #129, US edition, by Herb Trimpe, looks better on the UK version with its darkened background, making for a more menacing view. For fans of my CotW award know it's a personal choice that I give to the best artwork or the most interesting design for a cover, that doesn't always meet with universal approval. Some week's the quality is high which makes my choice difficult, or low making my preference just as hard. Well this week's covers are equally somewhere in the middle, but for me the drama of this high tension brawl edges it above the other two mags, earning it a Cover of the Week award. 

The Incredible Hulk “The Glob lives!”

Writer: Roy Thomas

Artist: Herb Trimpe

Inker: Herb Trimpe

Originally published in The Incredible Hulk #129

Cover date July 1970

(Published in April 1970)

Last week the Leader resurrected the Glob with an image burnt into its dim witted brain of the Hulk menacing a girl. Which starts it on a quest to find the gamma spawned brute, leading it on a journey all the way from it's Everglade swamp home to the sewers of Los Angeles where a destitute Banner has been hiding from General Ross's troops. Banner finds a discarded newspaper reporting of a monstrous shambling creature smashing its way across the country-side from Florida to California by night.    

Through the dim memories that Banner shares with his monstrous alter-ego he believes the only thing it could be is the marauding monstrosity known as the Glob, just as the swamp menace leaps out of the putrid waters to smash Banner's makeshift raft. With in seconds the Hulk replaces the puny form of Banner to fight his shabby opponent in the sewers, then up onto the streets of Los Angeles and finally towards a power station. The tussle takes the Hulk up a tower at the power plant,  followed by the dogged Glob. Then by instinct of a part of Banner's repressed intellect the Hulk grasps a power cable and shocks his pursuing pest. 

The shock and resulting fall into a structure housing an experimental dynamo ends in an explosion that rips asunder the building and the Glob. Leaving a mass scattering of tiny slimy particules that rain down across the country-side like lifeless slugs. Days later two of those maggot-like grains will wriggle towards each other as if with some mindless purpose, hinting that the creature that never truly lived may one day walk the Earth again. I often describe the Hulk's adventures as smashing for obvious reasons, this one is no different, it's a smasher! 

Bullpen Bulletins

This week's Bullpen Bulletin page is different from the usual, incredible, indubitable, interminable items that startle your senses and soothe your soul, (Can you see what I did there?) instead the full page is given up to show the logo's for nine of the regularly available US mags that we are told are flooding the UK newsagents shelves. We've got supernatural adventures with the Ghost Rider, (Marvel Spotlight) the Son of Satan, (Adventures into Fear with the man called) Morbius..the living Vampire, (Strange Tales featuring) the Golem, (Creature on the Loose featuring) Man-Wolf. Super-hero action with Captain Marvel and Luke Cage, Power Man. Plus savage encounters with Ka-Zar, Lord of the hidden jungle and (Jungle Action featuring) the Black Panther. All great and if you had the pennies you would not be disappointed with the tales you get to read inside of them. It's a real push from the parent company to sell more of these US imports. It might be counter productive to the sales of the British weeklies but I imagine that fans would stick to the economical weeklies and treat themselves to the colourful US comics when they could. 

Daredevil “The power revealed!”

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: John Romita Sr

Inker: Frank Giacoia

Originally published in Daredevil #14

Cover date March 1966

(Published in January 1966)

Two things of interest about this opening page are, firstly the title has been changed from "If this be justice!" to "The power revealed!" Which is more fitting for this first half of this tale anyway. Then secondly the inkers name in the credits has been removed, leaving a very peculiar gap that could be read as "Inking...all the above plus:" In fact the original name on the US edition read as "Frankie Ray" a pseudonym used by Frank Giacoia. I imagine that it had been whitened out so that his real name could be added but it was not finished off. 

Espionage agent known only as Boswell manages to stun Daredevil and Ka-Zar with a a high velocity rifle grenade in order to obtain the savage lord's Anti-Metal medallion. Which he takes to his partner in crime Feepers, leaving Ka-Zar and DD for dead. But DD follows him to a meeting of Lord Plunderer and his butler, who are arguing. Boswell tries to shoot Plunderer but in the scuffle hits and kills Feepers. Plunderer takes Ka-Zar's half of the medallion to open his father's vault. Then he uses the Anti-metal to fashion a vitro-ray gun that can destroy any metal on Earth together with a new costume more fitting for a super-criminal. Christening himself The Plunderer. 

On the fourth panel of the last  page from this first half strip the figure of an imagined Daredevil features looming over a the newly dressed Plunderer. I originally thought it had been added to the UK version to signal that next week DD would return to meter out justice to the villain. But the original US version also sported the man without fear. John Romita Sr would again use this image as art director for Marvel, as the logo image companion first seen on the cover of Marvel Team-Up #25 cover dated September 1974, published June 1974. 

Did Romita see that image while he was overlooking the editing down of this story for the UK edition and choose to reuse it for that issue? Who knows?  

The Mighty Marvel Mailbag

Gary Smith from Lanarkshire references Marc Bolan's (the T.Rex lead singer,) new record in which the Silver Surfer is mentioned. Gary believes that super-heroes are on the way "down" as there are too many of them. He would prefer to read more non-super-hero stories with characters like Conan, Dracula or the Silver Surfer. He can see that if those types of stories aren't included British Marvel comics could fade out like the old Fantastic comic. David Hudson RFO, KOF, FFF, asks when will the Ghost Rider, the Son of Satan and the Zodiac appear? When will the DD stories with the Black Widow and the FF adventures with Medusa get printed? He's obvious seen the US editions at some point. The final letter to this Mighty Marvel Mailbag is unsigned, so I don't know who asks about the fourth wall problem originating from when a comic appearing in the fictitious strip is from the real world, that could give away too much information about the hero's identities or how stories end. The best way to look at it is that it shouldn't be taken too seriously.    

The Fantastic Four “The battle for Ben's soul!”

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: Jack Kirby

Inker: Vince Colletta 

Originally published in The Fantastic Four #43

Cover date October 1965

(Published in July 1965)

Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Girl flee from the Wizard and the seemingly brainwashed Human Torch by taking Johnny's abandoned car. The Wizard decides to break off pursuit to free his other Frightful Four teammates, who were taken out of the fight by his own anti-gravity discs. After the Wizard and the Torch get them down, the Frightful Four realise that the Torch had deliberately hampered their chances of re-capturing his teammates. 

Returning to the Baxter Building Reed and Sue need to quickly subdue the Thing with knockout gas, so that Reed can begin the long task of trying to find a cure for the Wizard's brainwashing process. Meanwhile, the Wizard inspects the ID Machine, confirming his suspicions that someone has tampered with the machine during the battle, so that the Human Torch must have only been pretending to be under their control. They ambush the Torch, knocking him out. At the Baxter Building, Reed has finished constructing a device he hopes will revert Ben's personality to normal. But once activated the device overloads causing an explosion. Rushing forward Reed pulls the control helmet from Ben's head before any permanent harm can take place. Sue quickly throws a force field around Reed for his own protection just as ordered. Has Reed's devised worked? Find out next week.

Some fresh back page adverts on this week's selection of mags, first up is this Dinky Toys ad leading with a die-cast 1037 Chieftain Tank, part of the Dinky Military kit range. It comes in a 42 piece easy to assemble kit with flexible tank tracks and a revolving turret that fires "shells". Six are included, which is great as those little blighters were always hard to find after you fired them. I'm pretty sure I had one of those kits, or was it my older brothers? The second "big" item is a 1:25 scale model of a Ford Capri Rally Special, which was seven inches long. The third model was a Bedford van with AA livery on it. Just the sort of thing you needed when your Capri broke down. Oh happy days. 

Spider-man Comics Weekly #71

This cover has been adapted from the John Romita Sr cover from the Amazing Spider-man #67, well at least the hands are, that issue featured a different pose for the web-slinger. This UK cover bears more similarity to Marvel Tales volume 2 issue 50, covered dated April 1973, published December 1973 that used the same image of Spider-man. The colour scheme on the hands and background have changed a bit for the British version. 

Spider-man “Death by inches!”

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: John Romita Sr

Inker: Jim Mooney

Originally published in the Amazing Spider-man #67

Cover date December 1968

(Published in September 1968)

I did originally think that this opening splash page had been created for SMCW by an art bodger from different original sources, as a way to connect last week's ending with this week's opening. The large knife didn't match with the swinging axe pendulum from last week. But it turns out it was the third panel from page eight of this comic blown up to fit the page with a new title and text added.  

What you get from this story is the usual Stan Lee and John Romita sensational action package. Spidey figures out that all these traps are an elaborate mind games set up by Mysterio to unhinge him giving the master illusionist an advantage. The table top theme park from two weeks ago was just part of a post-hypnotic suggestion that seeded the believe that the web-slinger had been shrunk down to just six inches tall. Spider-man ends the villains plans with a good old fashioned right hook, just as I like it. This story is a knock out.

Bullpen Bulletins

The SMCW Bullpen Bulletin page is similar to the one printed in this week's Mighty World of Marvel but with the cover logos for the featured comics positioned in a different order. This version is also used in this week's Avengers weekly. In all three Bullpen Bulletins a text box wraps up a list of the other US full colour mags that are available. That eye watering list is, the DEFENDERS, MARVEL TEAM-UP, CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, DAREDEVIL, THOR, THE MAN-THING, TOMB OF DRACULA, JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY, TOMB OF DARKNESS, WEIRD WONDER TALES, WHERE MONSTERS DWELL, THE FANTASTIC FOUR, IRON MAN, THE X-MEN, THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER, and AMAZING ADVENTURES. Whew! That's 27 mags in total! But notice how the Amazing Spider-man, the Incredible Hulk and the Avengers don't appear on that list! Was that a strategic omission to keep the sales of the three British weeklies healthy? Probably! 

Iron Man “The Crimson Dynamo strikes again!”

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: Don Heck

Inker: Don Heck

Originally published in Tales of Suspense #52

Cover date April 1964

(Published in January 1964)

Russian spy, Boris has kidnapped Professor Anton Vanko, steeling his Crimson Dynamo suit of armour to return to Stark Industries to wreak havoc. Thinking that the Dynamo is trying to save the plant Iron Man tries to aid him. Boris takes advantage of his trust and blasts him in the back knocking him unconscious so that he can take him to a Russian sub-marine. 

Once awakened and recharged Iron Man frees himself and rescues Vanko. A fight insures between the two armour wearing opponents. Iron Man looks to be gaining the upper hand but the Black Widow distracts him allowing Boris to swing the tables on him. Vanko rushes to Iron Man's aid this time, using a "Laser Light Pistol" that causes an explosion in which Boris and Vanko seemingly die. The Widow escapes in all the confusion. Natasha Romanoff  seems a very cold heartless woman in this adventure, nothing like the Black Widow we know from the Avengers. Can't wait to see how that develops.

The Web and the Hammer

Peter Hinton from Leeds writes to say that the Hulk is pathetic, the Avengers are worse and that the Fantastic Four are even worse still, but Spider-man is OK or in fact he's fantastic. Well everyone is entitled to their opinions. He also thinks that the artwork on Thor is enough to make Kirby deserve a medal, while he thinks Iron Man is a punk. Which as the new wave era is some years off I think he's doesn't mean it in a good way. In fact he wants Daredevil to replace Iron Man in the comic. Nicky Chibnall RFO from Hertfordshire praises British Marvel on being "on the uptake" with Shang-Chi appearing in the Avengers weekly so soon after the release of his US comic in September 1973. May be that letter should have been printed in the Avengers letter page, but he does go on to say that Spider-man is his favourite super-hero. David North from London wants to know how the Sub-Mariner's hair stays in place when he's under water? Water resistant gel may be? Robert Miller Like's Marvel comics and all the stories featured in them, but thinks that the Fantastic Four should be abolished. What's with all these FF haters. He liked the Galaxy Master story and the one with the Sandman and the Leader. Sounds like this letter should have been printed in the Mighty Marvel Mailbag. Tony Devine from Middlesex wants to complain but all he does is praise Spider-man and the other comics. Although he doesn't want to see the return of the old Daredevil stories, he also wants DD to get his sight back. 

Alan Barlett from Teeside relates an argument with his brother, Ian who wants to read his copy of SMCW, with extra sound effects for added impact. Alan wonders why Spider-man only has ten pages per week while before he had around twenty-one pages. Martin Amos from Frankfurt in Germany writes while on holiday in Germany where he bought "Die Fantastischen Fier" (the Fantastic Four,) and while he passed through France he caught a glimpse of a comic called "Strange" that featured Spider-man, the X-Men, Iron Man and Daredevil. I bought a copy of "Strange" myself while I was on holiday in France too. I couldn't fully understand the French but the artwork was as brilliant to I understood the story and it made a great momento of my trip. D. Batchelor from East Kilbride has noticed that less and less pages are given to Spidey and Thor while more is given to "rubbish" like Iron Man and "pointless" short stories. Wesley Taylor from Essex has been a Marvelyte for about seven months and wants a QNS and will keep writing until he gets one. David Wilkinson from Portsmouth who wants a double No-Prize for decoding the message seen in "the Avengers #3" (It was actually in the Avengers #13 what's a "1" between me and you?) that used a FOOM code even though he wasn't a member of FOOM. He points out that in the second paragraph the word "SUWWGDV" it should have been "SUWWGFV".  In english it should have read "BULLPEN" but instead it was "BULLPIN". He doesn't get a double No-prize but he does get the standard No-Prize.

The Spider-man saga

This feature originally appeared in the Spectacular Spider-man magazine #2, cover dated November 1968, published August 1968, as a black and white feature in the inside cover. It gives a very brief outline of Spider-Man's origin and backstory, featuring Uncle Ben, Aunt May, Flash Thompson, Harry Osborn, a blonde girl who looks like Liz Allen but could be Gwen Stacy, although the hair is wrong, and of course, Spider-Man. I imagine that John Romita Sr drew this page with Stan Lee scripting it. 

The Mighty Thor “Battle in the Bio-verse!”

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: Jack Kirby

Inker: Vince Colletta

Originally published in The Mighty Thor #133

Cover date October 1966

(Published in August 1966)

Temporary escaping Ego, Thor and the Recorder explore the tunnels below the surface. Observing that they are within the planet's core the Recorder and his Norse God companion are like foreign bodies in Ego's blood stream. Thor adds that the planet may well send anti-bodies to battle them. Right on cue a legion of anti-bodies form a massive attack smothering the two travellers. 

Thor recovers his entrapped friend and creates a torrential thunderstorm that causes Ego significant damage. Ego then considers the contest won and Thor the victor, allowing the Thunder God safe passage out the Black Galaxy, adding that any means of entry into his Bio-Verse will be barred in the future. Thor then speeds through space with his companion. It does feel like a cop-out ending as if the page count was coming to an end, so Stan and Jack had to wrap it up quickly. Still it's a great read.

This is a preview of upcoming Meccano contest with a panel with what looks like Ben Grimm and Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four wearing hazard suits. How do I know it's a Meccano Competition you might ask? Well Reed answers Ben's question "What's so important about that there box mister?" with "It's not the Box Ben.. it's a new computer module from Meccano that's going to tell us what kind of prizes we're going to have in our next competition!" That's why. 

Under that teaser a nicely drawn advert for an Airfix scale model kit for a "Colditz" glider that can actually fly! Toys where very creative and fun in the 70's.

FOOM rolls out again with three more issues on sale once more. Issues 6, 7 and 8 are up for grabs for FOOM members and non-members. FOOM #6 would be released in July 1974, FOOM #7 in October 1974 and FOOM #8 would be out in January 1975. They decided to allow non-FOOMers a chance to buy them, although they would have to pay 80 pence for the three issues. FOOM members get the offer five pence cheaper. How on Earth can they tell who is genuinely a member? I don't know. There's no place to prove you are a FOOM payed up member on the special coupon. Maybe Marvel has a big list of members. What ever happened to the other issues between its UK release well over a year ago? I don't remember any offers for them, maybe only FOOM members were given the offer. I need a Time Machine so I can get that offer. FOOM magazines in 2024 are extremely expensive.

This is a behind the scenes look at Peter's pad, wrote by Stan Lee and drawn by his younger brother Larry Lieber, originally appearing in the Amazing Spider-man Annual #4, cover dated November 1967, published August 1967. 

The back page in-house advert returns to Spider-man Comics Weekly with a colour presentation of two more triumphs from Marvel featuring these covers from this week's the Mighty World of Marvel and the Avengers weekly fighting for space. So without wasting any time lets take a look at that mag.  

Avengers Weekly #40

This cover is taken from Master of Kung Fu issue 21, not the actual cover that this week's Master of Kung Fu story was taken from, which was MOKF #20. I think in all honesty the Americans mixed up their two covers, next week we'll see MOKF #21's cover. There is no proof of who the artist is. The Grand Comics Database offers either Ron Wilson or John Romita Sr as the penciler with Mike Esposito adding the inks. I personally think that Wilson was more than likely responsible for the art. This mag would have been released on the 15th of June, the American version of this cover was released a month later on the 16th July meaning that us Brits saw it first. Also it's worth noting that a new tag line of "Britain's only Martial Arts comic!" has been added to the mag. The "Britain's greatest" tag line ended with issue 27. 

Master of Kung Fu “Weapon of the soul”

Writer: Gerry Conway 

Artist: Paul Gulacy

Inker: Al Milgrom

Originally published in Master of Kung Fu #20

Cover date September 1974

(Published in June 1974)

Not only were we Brits the first to see the cover of this week's comic we also get to read this story before the Americans did MOKU#20 was released on the 18th June 1974, like I said before this comic came out on the 15th of June. It starts with a leisurely walk along a Florida beach, within three panels Shang-Chi is set upon by three wet-suited assassins. Englehart and Starlin was an ideal team for Master of Kung Fu but with this partnership of Conway and Gulacy a new dream team was formed. 

I really love Paul Gulacy's artwork, although I have to take a second look at some of it. His depiction of the human form in dynamic action can sometimes bend what is really possible. I'm not saying it's wrong or over exaggerated, they show the extreme a body can bend and move. Take a look at the third panel on the picture to the right, the assassin falls on his own blade but can the left arm bend like that? Well possibly, but shouldn't the elbow be sticking out more? Maybe.

What's funny about this story is I can't remember how it ends, which might mean that it was unmemorable, although from this first half I doubt that. Maybe I'm getting old and forgetful, or maybe this story has the power to surprise you even on the second or third reading. Either way I'm looking forward to re-discovering it again and finding out what's Demmy Marston's reason for having Shang-Chi murdered. 

The Avengers “Peril of the power thieves!”

Writer: Roy Thomas

Artist: Don Heck

Inker: Don Heck

Originally published in The Avengers #37

Cover date February 1967

(Published in December 1966)

The Avengers have already been captured by the Ultroids and since the Black Widow is not an Avenger, she was taken away to be destroyed. The Ultroid's spaceship takes off with the Avengers aboard, held imprisoned in clear unbreakable tubes. The Ultroids have studied the Avengers closely, preparing their cages to withstand their powers, however they were unaware that Goliath had recovered his shrinking powers. So shrinking down to the size of an ant he escapes and sets free the rest of the Avengers. They fight the Ultroids but they have to stop short of defeating them as Ixar threatens to kill the burgomeister of the village. Ixar absorbs the power of the Ultroids, growing to a colossal-size. The conclusion next week.

Your letters...

Still got that rubbish mailbag title, they need to permanently change it. Any way first up is Jerry Mussa RFO, from Sunderland who thinks that there are two ways to improve Marvel comics, number 1 remove Captain America's wings from his mask and two get the Hulk some friends. Jerry asks the big question that only a British reading Marvel fan could ask, "Is the spider on Spider-man's back red or black?" It's red for all you monochrome fans. Neil Kelly RFO, KOF, FFF, from Manchester is a thirteen year old Marvel fan who has been reading them since he could first read. Remembering them from as far back as 1963 no less. His favourite heroes are the Silver Surfer, Spidey and Captain America, he realises that Spidey has his own strip and the Surfer's strip can only be printed after he is introduced in the Fantastic Four, but why hasn't old Cap been seen in his own stories? He has spotted lots of John Buscema's artwork on the letter page. Neil also sent in some of his own artwork for the editors to critique.Which they do by saying that he is at a stage were no one can safely say if he's got what it takes to have a career as an artist. So that's a bit of a cop-out. But they do give him plenty of advice. 

Simon Jones from Stoke-on-Trent agrees with Hemat Mistry who thinks that the grey shading sometimes mars the art. He gets the Avengers every week from his newsagents and also has collected the US editions of the Avengers from issue 100 onwards. He says that he's grateful that UK Marvel have been re-printing the Avengers from the start. Simon is in favour of introducing the Silver Surfer or the Ghost Rider into the weeklies, maybe at the expense of losing Doctor Strange. The editor calls the technique of shading "Tint and tones", adding that in general the vote in the Bullpen is that it looks better with it than without it. They add "don't think we're just ignoring you and other Marvelytes who hold an opposite opinion from us. Your point of view has been given long and fair consideration in the finest traditions of merry Marvel democracy." So I guess you've been out voted. Personal I'm fine with the shading as long as it's not too heavy and darkens out the artwork. Onto the last letter for this week, Quentin Bradford RFO, QNS, KOF, FFF, from Stanmore who offers the first, as far as I can recall, letter of disgust at the introduction of Master of Kung Fu in Avengers #28. Describing it as "the unmitigated nerve to commit sacrilege to the traditions of Marvel" He demands that the Avengers story goes before Shang-Chi's, the Avengers pictures go in the corner box on the cover and they star on the cover artwork. He doesn't say if he hates or likes the Master of Kung Fu story though. After last week's positive filled Avengers mailbag, well it's good to have balance. The editor's reasoning for the way Shang-Chi was introduced, was would readers have preferred to have a new character like him just slip in apologetically and hope no-one would have noticed? The debate continues next week.

Doctor Strange “Into the Dimension of death!”

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: Bill Everett

Inker: Bill Everett

Originally published in Strange Tales #152

Cover date January 196

(Published in October 1966)

Doctor Strange finds himself falling through the Dark Dimension after answering a mysterious call for help. The Doctor must fight a number of weird creatures and navigate deadly traps sent by Umar. Even though Strange hasn't seen his new opponent face-to-face, he makes the unbelievable assumption that there is a presence of an evil woman who is responsible for the attacks. How he knows this is a mystery and a bit of lazy writing from Stan.

Umar sends two more creatures to over power Doctor Strange and bring him to her. When they meet she tells him about her brother Dormammu and how the Mindless Ones have captured Clea, but she leaves much of it clouded in half truths and deceit. Not completely trusting her Strange however agrees to go to her aid. This story has its good points but it does feel that it's over wordy. Bill Everett may have had a larger part in writing the script so maybe he should share some of the blame with Lee.  

The Avengers weekly in-house double dynamite advert comes with an angry Hulk waving his fist at the Mighty World of Marvel logo, while Spider-man Comics Weekly shows off it's full cover.

The Avengers back page is used for a Cresta competition offering you a chance to win one of 25 Philips cassette recorders or one of 500 Cresta T-shirts. All you need to do is rearrange the lines to the two verses to complete the rhyme in the correct order.

Verse 1

YOUR EVER LOVIN FAN

BABY I WILL BE

A BOTTLE OR A CAN IT'S FROTHY MAN

CLUCK CLUCK CLICK

GIVE ME A DRINK I REALLY LOVE

Verse 2

BUT WHEN IT COMES TO CRESTA

HERE'S ONE BEAR THAT JUSTCAN'T GET ENOUGH I DON'T WANNA DRINK THEOCEAN

ITS FROTHY MAN

COS MAN THATS REALLY ROUGH

It must have been a popular advert for Cresta drink, although I can't remember the advert and to be honest I have very little memory of the drink either. But to help refresh your memory here's a link to the advert that will help you solve the competition. Sadly you'll be 50 years too late to enter it.

So as you sing along or cringe with the awfulness of it I'll leave it there till next week.

See you in Seven.

Make Mine Marvel.