Any title that reaches 1000 issues is impressive and Look and Learn achieved such a feat on 9th May 1981. The celebrations began a week earlier in #999, with a full page advert promoting the big number. As you can see, the issue came with a free chess board, now long absent from my copy. It's also interesting to compare the cover shown in the advert compared with the finished product - a lot more writing was added including the subtitle 'With World of Knowledge' - which had folded and merged ...| Wacky Comics!
(Note: all images in this post are in the public domain.) Without even going into the well-known degradations of modern Hollywood, I have written about the past politicization of the Academy Awards—for example, the shunning of It’s a Wonderful Life for “Best Picture” of 1946 in favor of the politicized The Best Years of Our […]| James Perloff
Before Cinerama and CinemaScope, the movies contented audiences with screens whose dimensions averaged 20 feet by 16 feet. With the wide-screen technologies and formats of the 1950s, the movies eng…| ATMA & Funomena