#17aug

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Not just BMX action and stunts but BMX comedy as well!

1984 ad for Australian movie BMX Bandits (PG). Released as Short Wave in the USA. Don't know why as the BMX craze did begin in the US in the 70's. I've never seen this and it's probably best known now for being the movie debut of Nicole Kidman.

BMX just stands for bicycle motorcross and, as far as I can tell, wasn't a make or model as such. If you had one in the UK in the 80's the chances are it was a Raleigh Burner.

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The Beatles photographed at The Indra Club on Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany on the 17th August 1960; their first ever night in Hamburg. 

The boys had arrived earlier that evening for the first of 48 nights at the Indra. They played to just a handful of spectators on this first night and were also forced by Bruno Koschmider, the Indra’s owner, to turn down their amplifiers, following a complaint from the woman who lived above the club. Tired, hungry and a little overwhelmed, they played this opening 4 and a half hour show ‘huddled together and stock still’. That night they slept in Bruno Koschmider’s flat - luxury!

Pics: Beatlesource

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Once upon time.

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The Avengers starring Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu No. 48, week ending 17 August 1974. Marvel UK.

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Fury No. 23, dated 17 August 1977. Cover by Carlos Ezquerra.

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Warlord No. 569, dated 17 August 1985. Last Lap Larry cover by Ian Kennedy.

DC Thomson.

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Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain No. 235, week ending 17 August 1977.

The cover art (apart from Cap in the bottom left) is by John Romita Sr. and originally appeared on Amazing Spider-Man No. 165, 1977.

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The Cobra Hyena, from August 1985. In the 'Red Shadow' days of Action Force in the UK (September 1984 below) this was manned by Red Jackal, a repaint of Destro.

Treasury of British Comics.