All-Action, All-Picture

Comic covers, posters, and ads (mainly from UK weeklies of the 70's and 80's) plus images from movies, TV shows and games.

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A sheet of stickers from Science Ninja Team Gatchman, aka Battle of the Planets.

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Star Wars (main title) by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Williams. Side 2 was Cantina Band. UK 7" single picture sleeve from 1977. Don't know why they printed it in black and white but the single cover art was from movie poster artwork by Tom Chantrell.

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Doctor Who by Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra. UK 7" single picture sleeve from 1981.

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Beatles For Sale No. 2. UK 7" single picture sleeve. This was a 45 rpm extended play single (or EP). This EP was originally released on 4 June 1965 but I think this pressing is from 1973 or later. Hard to say but it is quite a nice single with a heavy duty card sleeve with a glossy front.

The photo on the front is credited to Robert Freeman who worked extensively with The Beatles in the early to mid 60's.

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Together In Electric Dreams by Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey (or Phil as I call him). UK 7" single picture sleeve from 1984. Taken from the Original Soundtrack of the film Electric Dreams. I've never seen it and I don't even know who was in it. I don't remember the movie being a big hit at the time but the song was and it reached No. 3 in the UK Charts.

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Two giants of television. Roddy McDowall (1928-1998) and Morgan Fairchild. Possibly pictured together in 1984 when they both appeared in The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood.

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Yellow Submarine c/w Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles. UK 7" single picture sleeve which, from what I have read, is a re-release from 1976. EMI's contract with the band had come to an end that year but they were still able to release existing material. This was one of the first singles I bought (it was actually my Mum bought it for me and I remember being with her at the time) and I've often wondered why I had such an interest in The Beatles from an early age. Turns out it was likely down to someone at EMI giving all the Fab Four singles a big promotional push in 1976.

The rear of the sleeves in this series varied as they featured a photograph of the band from a similar time period to when the single was originally released.

c/w or b/w on a single stood for combined with, coupled with or backed with.

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F1 News dated 6 July 1993. The cover shows the five British drivers competing at the British Grand Prix that year. Clockwise from top right are Mark Blundell, Derek Warwick, Johnny Herbert and Martin Brundle with Damon Hill in the centre. Only Herbert finished in the points.

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The A-Team by Mike Post (written by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter). UK 7" single picture sleeve from 1983. I pity the fool who thought they were going to get the theme we were used to hearing on our television sets. Sadly it was a re-recording and didn't have any of the military styling of the TV version.

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SHIELD vs AIM by John Byrne

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Stars on 45 by Star Sound. UK 7" single picture sleeve from 1981. A medley of songs made famous by a group called The Beatles. Don't know why they added Venus and Sugar, Sugar. The star of the show was Bas Muys, the Dutch John Lennon soundalike singer. I liked the way they picked some of the less obvious Beatles songs as well.

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The Great Pretender by Freddie Mercury. UK 7" single picture sleeve from 1987. A great song but, as much as I like Freddie and Queen, this was not a great cover version in my opinion. Video was a bit cringe as well. Written and produced in 1955 by Samuel 'Buck' Ram for The Platters as a follow up to their Only You (and You Alone) hit single which Ram had also written. The Platters version is still my favourite and, by total coincidence, they were signed to Mercury Records at the time.

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Autosport cover dated 17 June 1993. Another great example of the Sega livery Williams carried that year.

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Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-9 at the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours (11-12 June). This was the winning car driven by Jan Lammers, Johnny Dumfries and Andy Wallace. Two Porsche 962's in the background. Painting by Michael Turner.

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Action Force Datafile featuring the Z Force Infantryman from Battle Action Force cover dated 9 June 1984. In terms of the action figures the illustration here, wearing the commando cap comforter headgear, is of the Z Force Sapper who appeared in the Series Two range of figures from Palitoy. He was a repaint of the Series One Commando. The Z Force Infantryman figure had a hoodie and goggles. The art is probably by José Gonzalez.

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Wizard the Comics Magazine No. 157, dated November 2004. Cover by John Cassady in homage to Uncanny X-Men No. 141 (1981) by John Byrne and Terry Austin. Great piece of work.

Anorak Alert! - On this cover the name on the bottom left of the 'Wanted' poster is clearly meant to be Rogue. I don't think she had made her debut in the Marvel Universe when the original was drawn. On the original the name on the bottom left isn't as clear. You can see letters that might be ORO but they're really not clear.

The other characters that are partly obscured are probably Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch on the third row and Polaris and Havok on the fourth row.