Mark MaguireBig clean up going on with storage boxes in our attic room at the moment. Expect a long thread of varying frequency over the next while based on discoveries from the last quarter of the 1900s and the turn of the century. #SpringClean #TidyUp #DeClutter #ReOrganise #Memories #Mastodaoine
I seem to remember contentious Paddington Bear discourse on the Other Site a while ago. Should Paddington have yellow boots or not. I found this pillow case which indicates both were options in the late 1970s/ early 1980s. #Paddington #PaddingtonBear #Wellies #MemoryLane
Bit of original Star Wars stationery merch from the year of the franchise’s first release, 1977.
#StarWars #MemoryLane #Envelope #LetterFromAPastMe #ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway #MayTheForceBeWithYou
#StarWars #MemoryLane #Envelope #LetterFromAPastMe #ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway #MayTheForceBeWithYou
My kind of stamps. A co-worker got all these comic stamps on one A4 envelope from the US, about 10 or 15 years ago. They thought I’d like the envelope and I did. Found them again yesterday after years. #WhatHaveYouDoneForMePhilately #Stamps #Comics #MemoryLane #DCcomics
You organise a double page comic spread sequentially from individual card panels of Spidey versus Doc Oc. #MemoryLane #Comics #SpiderMan #DrOctopus #Marvel #Jigsaw #ComicPanel
Obviously the current generation of movie producers and studio executives are in the same age group as me. Because they’re literally remaking or rebooting all the films which were out about 40 years ago … 👀
#MemoryLane #Comics #EagleComic #LookAndLearnMagazine #IPCmagazines #1980s #TimeBandits #GhostBusters #StarWars #Dune #Mastodaoine #MyComicsCollection
#MemoryLane #Comics #EagleComic #LookAndLearnMagazine #IPCmagazines #1980s #TimeBandits #GhostBusters #StarWars #Dune #Mastodaoine #MyComicsCollection
I seem to have saved a few bits and bobs from the time of the currency change-over to the Euro. A few ads, newspaper clippings, and that Irish £ to € calculator which I’m pretty sure I used only about twice. My memory is that I got Euros out of an ATM after a New Year’s party at the Project Arts Centre … and that was it. Currency transition done.
#MemoryLane #EuropeanUnion #Euro #EU #CommonCurrency #Calculator #ExchangeRate #Mastodaoine #TBT
#MemoryLane #EuropeanUnion #Euro #EU #CommonCurrency #Calculator #ExchangeRate #Mastodaoine #TBT
Ooh, just dug this out. Raw comic magazine compilation selected from the first 3 issues (Read Yourself Raw, 1987). I think a mate bought it for me in my late teens as a birthday pressie (£9.99 from Forbidden Planet when it was on Dawson St. Dublin). Or I bought it in the company of a mate on a city centre comic spree. Either way, I’m glad it’s rediscovered. #MemoryLane #RawMagazine #ArtSpiegelman #GaryPanter #1980s #Comics #ComicBookArt
Mini 1950s Eagle comic facsimile: cut-out and assemble, and free with the new Eagle reboot in the 1980s. #comics #EagleComic #DanDare #UKcomics #MemoryLane
1980s Action Force’s villain Baron Ironblood seems to have a remarkable resemblance to the earlier incarnation of serial UK election candidate Lord Buckethead, and his future spin-off Count Binface. #MemoryLane #ActionFigures #ActionForce #Toys #Merchandise #Comics #UKcomics #CountBinFace #LordBucketHead #BaronIronBlood
The Bolland covers on the US-format colourised Judge Dredd comics are outstanding. I’m lucky I still have a few in the ‘archives’
#MemoryLane #JudgeDredd #Comics #2000AD #BrianBolland #EagleComics
#MemoryLane #JudgeDredd #Comics #2000AD #BrianBolland #EagleComics
Up in the parents’ attic this afternoon. Found some puzzles and games. #JigSaw #1980s #JudgeDredd #RPG #StarWars #ET #Puzzles #Merch #2000AD #MemoryLane
More blasts from the past up in my parents’ attic. My reading pattern aged 11 or 12. #MemoryLane #StarWars #HanSolo #IndianaJones #HardyBoys #TheHobbit #FinnMacCumhal #DickTurpin #Mastodaoine
Bit of Whovian nostalgia up in the attic too with some Return of the Saint, and the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew #K9 #DoctorWho #MemoryLane #TheSaint #HardyBoys #NancyDrew #Mastodaoine
oisin@MarkMaguire Fab. The best Dr Who in my book.
Mar :🌻@MarkMaguire oh be still my heart Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson.💓
@mooseandriosmom I had totally forgotten about the absolute fame of the Hardy Boys 😅
@MarkMaguire I was so in love with Shaun Cassidy. Posters all over my bedroom wall.
Amin Girasol@MarkMaguire oh good god, that's the edition of The Hobbit I read.
@fluidlogic I got it from my aunt. Beautiful cover illustration on it - one of the author’s I think.
@MarkMaguire Oh you're right! I remember reading that on the inside flap, now that you say it! (My dad did book cover design, so I'm used to reading the guff on the 'colophon' page in books. That's where the cover designer gets credit, and where geeky information like the typeface used in the book is often named.)
Leo Divinesuch warm charming things 🥲
they don't make enough things warm & charming like that these days
@LDivine Boxes of memories. That I can still feel!
nantucketlit@MarkMaguire Every DM: "I am the law."
DTrasler Writing@MarkMaguire Damn, I wish I still had mine....
jesse jarnow@MarkMaguire nice! did you see @SidFudd do this earlier, or just a coincidence? https://4bear.com/@SidFudd/113216017974212133
Taylor Jessen (@[email protected])
Attached: 4 images My used bookstore copy of RAW Vol. 1 #1 included a slew of vintage RAW mailers saved by the book's original owner, Michael, of North Augusta, SC. Thanks Michael! Top-Drawer Rubber Stamp Co. (circa 1979) Raw Vol. 1 #1 On Sale Now (circa July 1980) Raw Books Publication Catalog (circa Sept. 1980, 2-sided) (1/5)
@bourgwick @SidFudd No😄 That’s a wild coincidence. Literally just pulled it out of a pile of books about 4 hours ago! Nice!
Jim Bliss@MarkMaguire I'm jealous that you seem to have kept your Eagle collection.
My grandmother had them set aside in a newsagents in Marino and I got them every week. Then when we moved overseas, she'd send them monthly.
They got misplaced during one of our moves which makes me sad both because I can't get the nostalgia-rush from flicking through them all these years later, and also because they were a connection to my grandmother.
Still... the memories are the important thing.
@JimBliss yeah, I’ve been lucky that my mother left them alone in the attic for so long. I’ve got a good 300 or more from no. 1 (no cover sadly) now in my own attic. But they are a great source of nostalgia (and ideas for new movies for tired Hollywood types 😝).
Gerard Cunningham ✒️Trying to imagine a decent Dan Dare movie and failing, though they're probably capable of making one infused with Brexit-inspired WWII plucky blitz spirit.
@faduda It would be so difficult. It *could* be done well and in an interesting way. But I wouldn’t have any faith they’d do him justice. ☹️
@MarkMaguire Really the only way to do it would be as a straight caricature of a stiff upped lipped Dudley DoRight.
British Buck Rogers/Austin Powers RAF veteran and test pilot wakes up after 400 years on ice into a world he doesn't understand.
Gender-switch Digby to enrage the anti-woke brigades for some free online publicity...
British Buck Rogers/Austin Powers RAF veteran and test pilot wakes up after 400 years on ice into a world he doesn't understand.
Gender-switch Digby to enrage the anti-woke brigades for some free online publicity...
@faduda I like it.
@MarkMaguire
So I just realised that's a description of Adam Adamant...
So I just realised that's a description of Adam Adamant...
Big Head Tales@MarkMaguire
The lack of originality by Hollywood MBA run studios is stunning.
@bigheadtales stunning!