I´m talking of course about Kraven´s Last Hunt a.k.a. Fearful Symmetry written by J. M. DeMatteis ( whom you may know from his stint on the no less iconic Bwa - Ha - Ha League with Keith Giffen and Kevin Maguire ), drawn by Mike Zeck and inked by Bob McLeod which ran through WEB OF SPIDER - MAN issues 31 and 32, AMAZING SPIDER - MAN issues 293 and 294 and SPECTACULAR SPIDER - MAN 131 and 132. And the reason why I am starting this is the 70th birthday of Mike Zeck on September the 6th.
Longtime readers know that I have been a big fan of Mike Zeck ever since I saw his art on not only one of the best Bronze Age books by Marvel Comics but what should become one of my all time favorite comicbook series ever - SHANG CHI, MASTER OF KUNG FU written by Doug Moench.
For those who came in late and missed out on all the kung furying / karate chopping martial arts action I wrote two posts about the series in general and did five spotlights : one for each of the books artists, Paul Gulacy and Gene Day , a special post on Gil Kane who provided a lot of the early covers and one for all the other artists who worked on this great series.
Coming back to Mike Zeck, I like to switch things up on the blog to keep it interesting for my readers - as well as myself - so last year´s Mike Zeck post ( where you can find the celebrity birthdays from September the 4th up until September the 6th ) was an all DC Comics post while my Mike Zeck post from 2017 ( which has a few more choice anniversaries from the 6th of September ) and my Mike Zeck post from 2016 ( which also covers the anniversaries from September the 5th and September the 6th ) were about all of the different series Mike has worked on throughout his career.
But it´s not like I only write about Mike Zeck on his birthday, I also did a post on Mike Zeck´s work on G. I. JOE ( on Larry Hama´s birthday, oy ), and one on his covers for MARVEL TALES starring SPIDER - MAN . So why Kraven´s Last Hunt ? One reason is that at the moment a new story with Kraven is going on in the Spider - Man books ( at least here in Germany it is still going on, I guess in Amerika it has already run its course ) and while it might turn out to be a good story from what I have read so far it probably won´t. Ever since Kraven´s Last Hunt Marvel Comics and later Disney have tried to bring Kraven back in one way or another and none of it has stuck. And the main reason is that Kraven as a character has reached the end of his story. There is Soul Of The Hunter which is a decent epilogue to his story but Kraven has reached the end of his line.
And while I can understand that Marvel Comics and subsequently Disney are trying to keep a viable character like Kraven alive as a reader nothing that happened after Kraven´s Last Hunt and Soul Of The Hunter has really kept my interest. Not only because of the lack of quality in the writing or the lack of ideas with writers just rehashing old ideas with a deluge of sons, daughters or clones but because the powers that be at Disney can´t comprehend one simple thing. And that is the fact that while Kraven´s Last Hunt brought Kraven the Hunter to a new level and gave him a psychological depth and gravitas that was unheard of up until that point it also was the final word on Kraven. The end of his story. And no matter what you try and how good your intentions are that is a rubicon you cannnot cross and keep the story intact. Any attempt to go to the well another time and revitalize this cash cow diminishes the original story.
So why is this story so special ? Well, first there are not that many Spider - Man stories that you could classify as definitive Spider - Man stories. And that´s because the writers in what was the best time of Spider - Man weren´t writing for the trade. So you either have short, significant done - in - one stories like The Kid Who Collected Spider - Man or stories that go over a few issues and culminate in a big crescendo although you have to read the previous issues so you can appreciate everything that happens like with The Night Gwen Stacy Died. Or there are certain runs by writers like Roger Stern who together with John Romita Jr brought the title to new heights but which are better suited to be collected into an omnibus.
Secondly, while Spider - Man´s rogue gallery is one of the best in comics you don´t always get to delve so deeply into the psyche of one of his antagonists. It´s true that Marvel Comics has historically always done an exceptional job of fleshing out the villains and make them more three - dimensional and human ( and I am saying " historically " because I am not including the time between the start of Marvel NOW and real time NOW ) but the writers have always been more interested on getting out the issue in time so the bad guys may have gotten the short end of the stick.
But I don´t want to make another elaborate analysis of all the virtues of Kraven´s Last Hunt because it would not only break the confines of this post, there are already enough essays on this, most of them written by much more competent people. So instead I just want to add a few reasons why it´s one of MY favorite stories before we come to the first part of Mike Zeck art. Some people will say a big part of it is nostalgia because I was buying the issues as they came out - although not in chronological order. I was getting my regular fix of US comics from the international press newsstand in Stuttgart but I had just started reading AMAZING SPIDER - MAN around issue 280 and got them regularly from issue 292.
Kraven´s Last Hunt started in AMAZING SPIDER - MAN 293 but while it was - relatively - easy getting your hands on AMAZING SPIDER - MAN they only had sporadic issues of WEB OF SPIDER - MAN. And you could completely forget about PETER PARKER, SPECTACULAR SPIDER - MAN. They just didn´t have it. So I had to wait until the next comic convention like the international Comic Salon in Erlangen to get the other parts of this story.
And while this made it more difficult for me to read the story it also was one of the big pros of having the story go through all three Spider - Man titles ( remember when Spider - Man only had three books and they were all worth reading ? ). This way you could have a longer story in the short span of just two months and back then it was also special because they didn´t do it that often. Later on they did it with everything and The Clone Saga ( or how it more correctly should be referred to The Second Clone Saga ) was the proverbial straw that finally broke the camel´s back.
Coming back to the story itself I think the biggest two things that make it so appealing to me is the black costume and the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane. When the black costume first appeared after SECRET WARS I was pretty stoked because I thought this was IT. These were going to be Peter´s new duds from now on. Now there are a lot of people who might call that naive but that´s easy to say from Today´s point of view where we know that he has gone back to the classic outfit. Because the costumes of super heroes have changed over the years, they keep changing and you never know what may stick with the readers or the comic publishers.
Superman´s costume didn´t look like what we call the classic one when he started out, for a short while he had the white Zap Superman outfit, it changed again - this time for the worse - to the Robotech body armor version with the NEW 52 and has only recently returned to a more classic look. Captain America had a very different shield when he started out, he went through his Nomad and The Captain phase, Bucky became Captain America and changed the look again, there was the Captain Puerto Rico look inspired by the success of ULTIMATES ( which is the biggest source for the AVENGERS movies ) and let´s not dwell on the Steve Rogers, Superpatriot costume or CapFalcon. I mean, back when I started to read comics Batman´s costume was grey and blue, he had very long bat ears, an utility belt deserving of that name ( instead of a Tim Taylor Tool Time belt ) and a simple batsymbol that was clearly visible on a yellow background.
So yes, the idea that Spider - Man would change his costume and that it would last was not as naive as some people would like you to believe.
And yes, I have always liked the black costume. I know that they got rid of it and are mostly using it for Venom ( who in my opinion has become very overrated in the last decade ) but I would like to see Peter getting the non - symbionte one out of the mothballs. Speaking of mothballs, one thing Disney has only recently brought back is the relationship between Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson and no matter how many times they say that ONE MORE DAY didn´t really change anything KRAVEN`S LAST HUNT doesn´t work without Peter Parker and Mary Jane being married.
Because no matter how much you love somebody it makes a difference if you are only engaged or if you are married. This was one of the first stories where Mary Jane knew that Peter was Spider - Man and when he disappeared and seemed to have died it had much more of an impact.
Also there are big portions of the story where Peter is on the brink of going completely insane and the only thing that keeps him going is the thought of returning to his wife. Now call me a cynic or call me a romantic but I don´t think he would have survived this ordeal if his motivation would have been to return to his fiancee. And that´s my final word on this subject - at least for this part. I might have more to say about it in future installments but for now I will leave you with the Mike Zeck art.
Which is not complete since I don´t like to post complete issues - except for special cases - and more all the original art and a few select color pages I found while writing this post. And now enjoy and Happy Birthday, Mike.
Since we skipped ahead for Mike Zeck´s anniversary we have to go back to September the 5th before going forward and there are two people I want to mention. The first one is silver screen legend and pin up sex goddess Raquel Welch who celebrated her 79th birthday. Back on my old boobie blog she got the cult siren post she deserves but it seems that here I just can´t find the time to do an adequate homage. So until I can pull this off I wanted to put some GIFS on the blog which is the least I can do. These are from The Biggest Bundle Of Them All which was called The Platinum Gang ( Die Platinbande ) in Germany, probably because they didn´t know how to translate the original title. Or they felt the german viewers would not go to a movie called Das Größte Bündel Von Allen. As translated german movie titles it´s not so bad because it at least has something to do with the plot of the movie which is not always the case.
We make a jump over to Germany with Dieter Hallervorden who turned 83.
He is one of the pioneers of german television. After many years Nonstop Nonsens and Die Didi Show have finally been released on DVD and Blue Ray so you can get those classics for your slipper cinema as we say in german.
Whom I also can´t resist is ultimate MILF Rosie Perez. Her 55th anniversary brings us to the celebrities from September the 6th and maybe it´s just me but her breasts seem to get bigger and bigger each consecutive year.
But I´m not the only one who is fascinated by Rosie´s rapidly rising rotund rack as they were even immortalized in a song by Kanye West much to the chagrin of Rosie : " I'm a woman of a certain age, if you're gonna mention me in a song, have a little respect. He mentions my breasts. When you walk down the street and you have 15 - year - old boys ... they're like, ' Yo, Rosie, D's D's, Rosie Perez,' it's no good." I´m not sure what being a woman of a " certain age " has to do with it, because strangers singing about the size of your breasts would have you uncomfortable at any age.
Someone who surely has some thoughts along that line is Craig Ferguson who made her come again and again ... as a guest on his show I mean.
We´re staying with hot cult sirens with Betsy Russell who celebrates her 56th birthday and who is best known for getting her freak on - and her clothes off - in such classic screwball comedies like Private School, Tomboy or Cheerleader Camp. She also starred in the Angel sequel Avenging Angel, appeared in an episode of the Superboy tv series and had a short but memorable erotic scene in 1992´s Delta Heat with Anthony Edwards.
Speaking about hot 90s sexbombs, PLAYBOY´s Playmate of the Month in January 1990 turned 58. The Miss Nude World 1981 appeared not only in a lot of PLAYBOY videos thanks to her stunning 36E - 23 - 35 measurements, she also played a stripper in Beverly Hills Cop II, Maggie in Lady Avenger, Keela in Phoenix the Warrior and was in the obligatory Baywatch episode.
There are too many playmate birthdays in the year to put them all on the blog so I concentrate on the few I´m familiar with from the time when the PLAYBOY magazine was a big part of my regular reading material and Peggy McIntaggert really stood out because of her incredible Power Girl figure.
And it´s back to comics with MAD artist and GROO creator Sergio Aragones who celebrates his 82nd birthday. He is a big part of my comic reading history, first through the MAD look at features and his border drawings and later through his various mini series like Fanboy, Sergio Aragones Destroy DC, Sergio Aragones Massacres Marvel ( although the DC comic was much funnier because the writing in the Marvel book was too much like the actual comics ) Louder Than Words, Actions Speak or Funnies. And yes, I have read some Groo but I don´t own more than three issues tops.
In the Dearly Departed section of Today we have blond bombshell Carol Wayne who was best known for her appearances as the buxom Matinee Lady on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. With the mega inflated body of a living blow up sex doll predestined for the adult industry ( her exact body measures are not known but it is assumed that they were around 39DD - 24 - 35 ) she did a nude PLAYBOY pictorial in February 1984.
With a curvaceous body that must have been the envy of most porn stars of that time she had many fans who followed her guest appearances on such television shows like I Spy, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. , The Fall Guy or Love American Style where she played a very distracting buxom secretary. She also had roles in the movies Gunn, The Party and her last one Heartbreakers in which she had a nude scene. Carol appeared in many sketches on The Red Skelton Show but she gained her greatest fame for her 100 plus appearances as the Matinee Lady between 1971 and 1984. Holy Moley, she would have made one hell of a Power Girl !
Speaking of mega inflated born for porn blow up sex dolls, we continue our celebrity countdown on September the 7th with a real whopper since it is none other than famous South Korean adult model / exotic dancer / porn star Minka a.k.a. the asian woman with the largest breasts in the world who turned 49. In her case the term blow up sex doll is meant quite literal since she has blown up her already large boobs a few times until she got her preferred breast size of 55KK ! Anyway, there is not much I can add to the post I did in 2016 - which is probably a relief for some readers - and if the other readers want to get some relief ( you know what I´m talking about, time for some asian masturbation ) just click on the link.
One reason why I´m not doing a new post is that with porn actresses it is always difficult to find good material to post and right now I also don´t have the time to do some new animated GIFs with Minka. I do have to say I like her better in her early movies and if somebody out there knows from which of her movies the scene below is it would be much appreciated so drop me a line via e - mail or please let me know in the comments below.
As for Minka´s later films where she already had the supersized breast we all know and love her for one of my favorites ( which I still have not found in good quality ) is where she is a nurse at a clinic that specializes in penis enlargement who constantly test the patients supersized appendages and has to give the chief surgeon the special XXL boob massage treatment to avoid being fired after he catches her giving the latest patient a test drive. Which is the part that always seemed a bit far fetched for me. Not that Minka would milk those hard horsecocks dry or that the doctor would make her spread her legs like a fillipino whore who is two months behind her rent for some asian insemination. What I find a bit hard to swallow is that the doctor would wait until he catches Minka in the act to pull a Harry Weinstein. If I was Minka´s boss I would slambang her brains out on a daily basis from day one until I had tamed her to be my obedient sex slave.
Speaking of taming asian blow up sex dolls with oversized oppai as my personal sex slaves, who I could see in a new version of the movie with Minka is wet cosplay dream Yaya Han. She probably would not need much of her asian lubrication to give even the biggest schlongs some lip service.
I mean she already did a sexy doctor / nurse cosplay with her Super Sonico costume. Daim, that girl knows how to fill out that uniform and she´s just begging for some deep asian penetration. Those sweet lips are perfect for giving oral pleasure and we all know that when it comes to deepthroating rockhard boners nobody can hold a candle to asian girls. And those soft, giant boobs were just made to be wrapped around a throbbing erection.
And don´t get me started on those long, perfect legs. I bet they taste as good as they look and Yaya surely can spread them like a real pro as only the best asian strippers and pornstars can. She probably is a real sex freak in the bedroom who can polish your meatpole until you squirt like crazy.
Not only does Yaya Han look like she could star in a Russ Meyer movie Super Sonico sounds like a name from a Russ Meyer movie, especially SuperVixens where every woman had the word super in her name.
Although it would probably be something a bit more erotic like Super Spermico. Speaking of sperm, as my personal nurse and blow up sex doll Yaya would have to give me at least three daily spongebaths although instead of a sponge Yaya can use her big 40D oppai to massage my boner until I am ready for her patented extreme asian ejaculation escalation.
Of course Yaya Han would also have to wear some special outfits like the one Akira Lane is sporting below. I can just imagine Yaya Han´s king sized XXL breasts with the areolas of the nipples being totally visible in that mesh shirt and her nude butt only covered by a tiny string of dental floss while she is giving me a lapdance before a two hour erection injection.
That´s what I need some sexual healing from a naughty night nurse like Stacy Valentine where no matter how much she knows about medicine you feel already better if you see her. And just wait until she starts with the deepthroat erection inspection to get the daily sperm sample. If I won the lottery big style I would definitely hold auditions for my nurse and I would buy them uniforms that are at least two sizes too small so their tits are hanging out all the time. Of course my dream nurse would not only have the body of a Playmate of the Year and incredible stripper skills.
She also should be well versed in the Kamasutra, tantra sex, nuru massages and all the sex techniques. The best candidate would be a big breasted nymphomanic sexbomb with legs up to her chin who is addicted to oral sex and was fired from her last job at a sperm bank because she was always massaging the client´s hard schlongs with her giant boobs and then deepthroating them without mercy which caused them to squirt all their juices in her throat instead of the special container. Maybe it´s time for some asian salivation and Yaya Han wants to audition with her oriental oral skills. Like the saying goes : life sucks but asian girls deepthroat you dry !!!
With Yaya Han being such a big anime fan I wonder if I could con her into doing a remake of Ogenki Clinic. I would volunteer to play Dick Horsecock, the well hung patient who suffers from a severe case of hyperspermia and Yaya would of course play nymphomanic dicktamer Ruko Tatase, who has fallen on hard times and has to milk his schlong dry of all excess semen every night to pay the rent for her tiny flat so the horny landlord doesn´t sexually assault her again. Man, brabuster Yaya was born to play this role.
Boy, if Yaya Han´s body was not made for porn movies ( and with " made " I mean that Yaya herself got some breast enhancements ) I don´t know.
Daimn, just check out the size of those opai on Yaya Han. We have to get her to do full frontal nudity in the JLA movie, her body is primed for it.
So far I had written six posts on Yaya - two of them are pretty safe but the other four are absolutely not safe for work - and I keep mentioning her on various JLA casting posts and any other posts involving asian sexbombs like Kiana Tom, Ava Cadell, Akira Lane, Miko Lee, Gail Kim or Minka and I swear the completely NSFW BIG YAYA HAN POST is still in the pipeline. In the meantime I have made two new posts about Yaya which showcase a part of her incredible anatomy that I have ignored too often - her legs.
You can read more about why Yaya should be my private nurse and how she inspired my new comic VERSAUTE BETTGESCHICHTEN in this post .
On the other side I DID plan to do a new post for Heather Thomas - best known for her blue bikini on The Fall Guy - since my first cult siren solo post I did on her back in 2017 had more of 80s Power Girl Markie Post in it than Heather Thomas. Although you can´t have too much Markie Post !
Heather played stunt body double ( and what a body it was ) Jody and her job was to keep the male viewers hooked by providing eye candy. She was in all episodes except for an episode in the first season. Yes, fan service is not as new as some people might want you to think and Heather Thomas mainly got the part because of her absolutely amazing bikini figure. OMG !
It took a few episodes before she could strut her stuff but once the tv guys got a taste of Heather it happened more often and the famous blue bikini scene was quickly added to the new intro of the second season.
For generations of adolescent young boys the only highlight of the week was the short moment when Heather appeared in her famous blue bikini.
Like most growing teenagers I watched that show religiously but the biggest part of its appeal for me were sexbombs like Heather Thomas and Markie Post who didn´t appear as often in a bikini as I would have liked.
Well, Heather Thomas did since that was her main purpose on the show but Markie Post´s appearances in bikinis on The Fall Guy were very few .
Markie Post played bail bonds contractor Terri Michaels ( who replaced previous bail bonds contractor Samantha Jack played by Jo Ann Pflug ) beginning with Season 2 and at the beginning she played a minor role.
One of the producers must have realized what a waste it is to have somebody like Markie on the cast without letting her " show off what her Mama gave her " like they say Today and the rest is 80s tv history. Markie Post got more involved in the stories where she stole the scene from Heather Thomas as soon as she donned a bikini ( mainly in Season 3 ).
Coming back to Heather Thomas, thanks to her absolutely stunning 37 ( ! ) - 23 - 32 measurements and the exposure in The Fall Guy she became a famous pin up model with posters in every hormone driven boy's bedroom.
She even managed to replace Raquel Welch on the number one spot !
80s Power Girl Markie Post is probably the best known cult siren on the blog because not only have I done many re - posts of her original post .
I also keep mentioning her in other posts and her original post is in the Top Ten Posts widget that appears on every post. Since I have done so many different versions it is not so tragic that I did not do a re - post last year even though I did the last version of her cult siren entry in 2016 .
To put the bow on the celebrity birthdays for this post you can find more from September the 7th up until September the 10th in this Gil Kane tribute post and after talking so much about hit bikini sexbombs here´s another short clip with the best babes from the Hot 100 competition.
When I write the post I always try to put stuff into the video section that fits the subject of the post but the next two videos are from another post all about cowboys, indians and riding horses. Since I don´t get to write about westerns that often I am always very enthusiastic when I DO get the chance but I completely blanked on the fact that I already had a cartoon video and a movie video in said post. So I am including them here.
Does anybody know how many Django movies there are ? I mean real Django movies. It seems that because the Franco Nero movie was so popular in Germany any other western movie is called Django no matter if it is an original Django movie or not. Most german western movies seem to be either Django movies or Sartara movies. Or Django meets / vs Sartara.
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