Tuesday, December 22, 2020

More Christmas funnybooks not just Marvel

As threatened in my last Christmas post here are more Christmas covers and stories and this time around we are including some stuff from the distinguished competition - like Stan Lee used to call it - and others.


Usually when I include black and white art I try to get the corresponding colored pages but I couldn´t find any from Sabrina´s Christmas Magic issue 196 so I am assuming that it originally was published in black and white.


And if it wasn´t there are at least no color pages of it to be found online.


In any case, here´s another selection of four - colored holiday cheer and I hope you have already done the majority of your Christmas shopping.


Just in time for the holidays Today´s links include some special Christmas greetings from DIVERSIONS OF THE GROOVY KIND and Heroworld´s Super Hero Catalogue with some nice art by the late Joe Kubert while MAN OF BRONZE offers up a triple threat with a special Christmas post with the guys from Big Bang Comics ( anybody remember those guys ? ), ghost stories from the 50s and last but not least a handful - and I really mean a handful - of illustrations by Carlos Pacheco of Union Jack and other heroes.


We have to cover a few days worth of celebrity birthdays starting with Wendy Hamilton who celebrated her 53rd birthday on December the 20th.


Which means that I can hit on her without coming off as creepy since we are the same age. Or at least not creepy because of any age differences.

She might still find me creepy for other reasons though. Wendy Hamilton's statuesque five foot ten inch frame was featured in the December 1991 issue of PLAYBOY magazine. Which was just the beginning since Wendy appeared in a lot of special publications and it should be no surprise that her stunning 35D - 24 - 36 measurements were featured in a few PLAYBOY videos where she showed a special talent for getting soaking Wet & Wild.


She's since followed in the footsteps of her predecessor Pamela Anderson by acting in straight to video sextaculars that feature, among many other things, her incredibly long legs ! Being a former playmate, Wendy has been nude in just about every film she has been in. Guess she's typecast as hot and naked, which is a good thing. A highlight is Ski School 2 but you have probably guessed that my favorite movie with Wendy Hamilton is The Dallas Connection a.k.a. Deadworks by cineastic mastermind Andy Sidaris .


Andy Sidaris was probably THE BEST director of action movies for adults and his cast is a WHOS´S WHO of playmates : 40DD Playmate Of The Month November 1984 Roberta Vasquez , hot 34D Page 3 girl turned sex therapist Ava Cadell , 41D Penthouse Pet Of The Year 1993 Julie Strain , Samantha Phillips, 34D Playmate Of The Month May 1994 Shae Marks , 36D Penthouse Pet Of The Month February 1993 Julie K. Smith , 34C Playmate Of The Month September 1993 Carrie Westcott or Dona Speir to name just a few.


And I just wrote a spin - off post with all the usual links to Janet Jones Gretzky and real live Power Girl Leslie Easterbrook who had the most famous scene in Police Academy 4 - Citizens on Patrol in which she emerges from a pool in a wet t - shirt. And while the obligatory Andy Sidaris actresses / playmates / sexbombs like Roberta Vasquez , Ava Cadell , brunette Cynthia Brimhall, Dona Speir , Julie Strain , Shae Marks , Julie K. Smith and Samantha Phillips are mentioned the main part is about blonde brabuster Monique Sluyter and the obligatory plethora of Tutti Frutti girls .


Now usually I just include a short part with them in the posts but this time I did a somewhat longer version so I could include all the new download links I found while writing this post. I just recently included a whole slew of new ones but those are just for compilation and mixes while these new ones are not only for entire episodes - which are always ultra rare - but for german episodes which are even rarer. Some of them even include my favorite Tutti Frutti girl ( whom you can see just below ).


These last few months I kept saying that I don´t have the time to go through the daily list of birthdays and have to rely on what I posted in previous years. So why did I do exactly that Today ? Was it because I only had a few of my usual categories covered ? Was it some sinister force at work here that is working to some dark and foreboding goal ? I have no idea. The only thing I know is that we have a new candidate for December the 20th and there is a big comicbook relation because it is none other than director Jörg Buttgereit, the creator of Captain Berlin who turns 57.


For those who have heard of the comic and think it is a hoax I can assure you it really exists and there are already 11 issues available as well as a trade that collects the first four out of print issues. Now usually I prefer to include people in this section that I have met or at least have some sort of connection. And there is one although it is work related but not in the way you might think. Some people thought that Captain Berlin would make Power Freaks competition but in reality they pander to different audiences. Captain Berlin is very much a super hero spoof and satire that treats the persons and situation comically. In Power Freaks the satire is more subtle and more centered on the state of society while the persons act in an environment where the superhero thing is treated very serious.


Anyway, while I haven´t met Jörg Buttgereit I know a little bit about him from what I know about the origins of Captain Berlin and from doing the english translation of Weissblech Comics ( the company that publishes CAPTAIN BERLIN but also such german horror series like HAMMERHARTE HORRORSCHOCKER, ZOMBIE TERROR and their newest hit ZOMBIEMAN ) NEKROMANTIK 1. Which I think is the continuation of Jörg´s cult movies Nekromantik 1 and Nekromantik 2. As for the origin of Captain Berlin, he is the brainchild of Jörg Buttgereit whose taste goes more into the trashy independent movie making direction and towards horror and gore movies.


Captain Berlin first appeared in an 11 minute super 8 short called Captain Berlin - Saviour of the World in 1982 and the cast at least had Bela B. from famous german punk rock band Die Ärzte ( The Doctors, no relation to any timetravellers from the planet Gallifrey ). There was a sequel Captain Berlin versus Hyxar in 1984 and that was it for his movie career. But some ideas are just too good to let them go to waste so in 2006 Jörg Buttgereit wrote the audio drama Captain Berlin vs Dracula that was adapted as a a theater play under the title Captain Berlin vs Hitler in 2009. They made a DVD of the play which included a comic produced by Levin Kurio and since 2013 Captain Berlin has been one of the regulars from Weissblech Comics.


Longtime readers know that one of my pet pevees on this blog is celebrating all the brave actresses who turn insufferable dreck into bearable entertainment by taking their clothes off or at least show what their Mama gave them and who don´t get enough recognition for that .


Thus I want to give a shoutout to one of the biggest movie cult sirens of my youth : sexbomb Joyce Hyser who celebrated her 63rd anniversary.

And before you ask : you don´t know Joyce Hyser, you don´t remember the movie Just One Of The Guys for which she is best known but I bet you remember this scene where she shows her incredibly big ..... talents.

In the scene she tries to convince this guy that she is really a girl but nothing works until she pops her porn star boobs out. What was missing from the movie were the consequences of this revelation. They showed some of them. But in the real world it would have been like : The good news is you managed to convince him you´re a girl. The bad news is you managed to convince him you´re a girl. Because once that guy gets an eyeful of living blow up sex doll Joyce Hyser´s huge melons she would not leave his bedroom for the next three weeks while this horny pervert tries to dicktame her, banging her brains out until she is his obedient sex slave.


Back in the 80s your best bet to see some naked breasts were screwball comedies because you knew even if the script was totally worthless and the actors without any kind of talent you were going to get boobage .


Joyce Hyser may not be famous and may not have played in the best movies but every prebubescent boy growing up in the 80s saw this movie.



And to think she almost didn´t do it. Joyce had a no nudity clause in her contract and was against showing her wonder twins especially after a female friend told her : " Honey, WITH THOSE BREASTS if you GO TOPLESS in that scene, NO ONE you meet will EVER look you INTO YOUR EYES again ." Thankfully Joyce Hyser shot the scene showing her breasts and without showing them and in the end decided that the scene didn´t work if she didn´t go topless. This is what I call " poetry in motion ".


So the thanks of an entire generation of hormone driven boys is yours for logic winning over superstition. Or naked breasts winning over whatever.


Now Joyce Hyser´s bonerinducing twin torpedoes appear in a lot of lists about the best gratuitous nude scenes in movies and in fact one person even ranked it as the number one gratuitous nude scene in movies. And while I agree that Joyce Hycer´s massive milkshakes deserve the top spot in any countdown I have to call foul on his reasoning. The reason why it has the top spot on the list is that - according to this guy - it is completely gratuitous and absolutely absurd. He claims that it is totally unnecessary for Joyce Hyser to pop out her wonderful breasts and that it would be much easier to show the guy her drivers license or ID to convince him she is a girl. Yeaah, right. I am no expert on life in America and mostly get my knowledge about that from movies, tv shows, comics and the internet.


But even I know that those documentations can be faked. So I ask you : what would convince you if a person is a guy or a girl ? Some ID that can be easily faked by teenagers as we see so often in american sping break comedies or a pair of juicy juggs like Joyce Hyser presents ? Rest my case.


We are staying with cult sirens as Jenny Agutter turned 68 who appears in such cult movies as Amazon Women On The Moon, Darkman, An American Werewolf in London and most prominently Logan´s Run. By the way, sorry for the poor quality of the GIF but it was the best where Jenny´s costume is not covered by text. I also want to mention that there are a few GIFs from the movie where she is naked so don´t get your pitchforks out yet.


As longtime readers know I have done several posts on Logan´s Run, the first one in 2011 where I covered everything from the movie to the tv series and the many comic book adaptions. And speaking of comic book adaptions as a big fan of George Perez I posted all five issues of the series he did for Marvel as well as the final two by the criminally underrated Tom Sutton ( on whom I did posts in 2017 , 2018  and this year ) to finish it up.


Which I thought would be the final post but since then I have found a lot of original art and since I don´t want to go back and put them into the old posts - which I then would have to overhaul completely - there will be a special black and white post about George Perez Logan´s Run somewhere in the future ( no pun intended ). I still hope that it will be reprinted but judging by the problems Marvel had with the movie company the first time around  I highly doubt it. And speaking about movies has there been any definite news about the remake they keep announcing for decades ?


And as usual for more celebrity birthdays from December the 20th check out my Mark Texeira tribute from 2018 and my Joe Sinnott / John Buscema double feature from 2017 . Now as I wrote earlier I went through the anniversary list again because no matter how often you do this there is always somebody you didn´t know the last time around or somebody you forgot or somebody you were too busy to include. Which is the only logical explanation that I haven´t included Reinhard Mey who celebrated his 78th birthday on December the 21st since he is one of my favorite songwriters.


There are a few other birthdays from December the 21st I could include but I´m not because time but a really big one is Jane Fonda who turned 83. I can´t believe that I haven´t done at least a feature on her because if anybody deserves to be classified as a cult siren it´s the sultry 36B - 25 - 36 sexbomb whose naked striptease in zero gravity and other sexual antics in Barbarella ignited the imagination of science fiction fans worldwide. 

What a lot of people don´t know is that the movie is based on the comic series of the same name by the late french comic artist Jean - Claude Forest and that Roger Vadim was a huge comic fan. Which is the reason that he made the movie in the first place. Though the movie was initially a flop it became a cult film after it´s second release and has had a really big influence in pop culture as the 80s band Duran Duran named themselves after the movie´s villain Dr. Durand Durand and even Kylie " Die Geile " Minogue referenced the film´s opening sequence in her video Put Yourself In My Place. The comic on which the movie was based came out in 1962 and was first published in the french V - Magazine and later as stand alone books. Barbarella was quite groundbreaking and became known as the first adult comic book. For more info go to the website about Jean - Claude Forest on ALCHETRON and Jean - Claude Forest´s Barbarella : A Landmark in Adult French Comics over at PAUL GRAVETT .

Originally Brigitte Bardot and italian mega sex goddess Sophia Loren were approached for the title role which ultimately went to juicy Jane Fonda.

Speaking of roles that went to different actresses as originally planned, one of my favorite movies that is not as often on tv as it used to be but what you can still see from time to time is the The Great Race called The Great Race Around The World in Germany ( Das große Rennen rund um die Welt ) with Natalie Wood as Maggie Dubois, Tony Curtis as The Great Leslie and Jack Lemon as evil Professor Fate. By the way, is it just me or does Natalie Wood sound like a totally legit pornstar name ? Peter Falk who is best known as Columbo plays Profesor Fate´s henchmen Maximilian Meen and as an interesting fact Denver Pyle whom we all love from The Dukes Of Hazard with busty 36C - 25 - 35 brunette Catherine Bach plays the Sheriff.


Also originally Robert Wagner was supposed to play the lead but because he had recently divorced Natalie Wood they went with Tony Curtis. Natalie wasn´t the first choice for the role of Maggie Dubois either but they gave her the part after Lee Remick declined and Jane Fonda decided to walk off to the western comedy Cat Ballou. Of which the only thing I remembered was Jane Fonda wearing a stunning red dress as torridly tittylating Trixie.


Okay, I also remembered that Lee Marvin was schizophrenic in that movie.


Or at least I thought so because when I first saw the movie I didn´t quite get that he was supposed to be two guys. I thought it was kind of the Superman III thing where the good part fought the evil part. Now I know that he´s playing two roles and he even got an Oscar for it. I think Jane deserved one too just for filling out that red dress so well and I wonder if she wasn´t the inspiration for another buxom cult sexbomb in a red dress.

Coming back to The Great Race, initially the movie was a flop and it is known for having the biggest pie fight in movie history. The whole family would always watch it and what impressed me most as a little boy was naturally when Natalie Wood rips up her clothes and tries to escape as she spends the majority of the rest of the movie in nothing but underwear.


Speaking of Natalie Wood in underwear you can see more pictures from that scene here, Paco Granados at NATALIE WOOD has a plethora of GIFs from that movie and you can read more about Natalie Wood at JESSICA .


Despite it´s initial failure The Great Race is one of the classic Hollywood films and it´s one of the movies I still watch even if I have already seen it a hundred times. Naturally I know only the german dubbing and the thing that first comes to mind even before " Das soll mir der Große Leslie erst nachmachen. "  is Jack Lemon shouting " Max ! Drück auf´s Knöpfchen ! "


Coming back to Jane Fonda, she scored more cult siren points by getting naked on film a few more times - even though she used a body double in Klute which was totally unnecessary because she could easily pull off playing a prostitute with her ultimate hardbody - and being one of the major fitness freaks who kicked off the aerobic craze. Which not only brought us dozens of erotic exercise enthusiasts like flex appealing 36D - 23 - 35 fitness guru Kiana Tom , Dallas busty 36D - 24 - 35 Victoria Principal, Police Academy´s 36DD - 25 - 35 bikini playmate Janet Jones Gretzky or silver screen 37D - 25 - 36 sex goddess Raquel Welch it also brought us such great aerobic movies like Aerobicide and Perfect where perfect 10 JaMILF Lee Curtis showed off her honed and toned 34C - 22 - 34 measurements.


But Jamie was not always a sex symbol and started out in horror movies like Halloween and The Fog ( which also starred cult siren Adrienne Bareau about whom you can read more in this brand new spin - off post ) where she quickly became very famous for her impressive set of lungs as one of Hollywood´s premiere scream queens. Although she later became quite literal famous for her impressive set of lungs as her boobs had busted out.


Today she´s best known for her incredibly hot striptease in True Lies, the best striptease in movie history - at least according to a poll from 2007.


Which is all the more impressive if you keep in mind that Jamie Lee Curtis was 36 at the time. So she did her best movie scene when her body was in remarkable shape - she exercised every day for this - and I cannot even begin to imagine how epic it would have been if she hadn´t kept on her underwear and gone full monty frontal nudity. Because James Cameron had seen her in A Fish Called Wanda and wrote the role of Helen Trasker specifically to see her nude body. A lot of other actresses auditioned for the role and while I could definitely see Demi Moore in that part ( who is the number one in my Top Movie Stripteases thanks to her spectacular performance in Striptease ) or even Kim Basinger, Michelle Pfeiffer, Geena Davis, Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Jennifer Jason Leigh and possibly Lea Thompson or Sharon Stone I thank God that it wasn´t given to Emma Thompson, Melanie Griffith, Debra Winger, Anette Benning or Joan Cusak.


I have already done a number of posts on JaMILF Lee Curtis : the original post which mostly contains pictures with links to animated GIFs , one post with all the pictures I could find , a re - posted version with a few GIFs added and the post I did on her in 2016 which has lots of spectacular GIFs.

Now blow up sex doll Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Tony Curtis which brings us full circle and as a last word on Hollywood mega MILFs Jane Fonda starred in a few movies as the busty Mom where she showed that she could still bring the goods. Boy, looks like milk really DOES a body good.


There are two cult siren birthdays from December the 22nd which I already covered in my second post about Jack Kirby´s THOR issue 173 ( which includes the german black and white pages from HIT COMICS, original black and white pages and the color pages ) and a comicbook related birthday that I addressed in my Christmas cover post from 2018 but there is nothing important to add at the moment and I don´t have any videos that I could share. And since there are no other candidates that I want to mentions this means we have wrapped up the birthdays for Today.


Today´s Christmas video is from The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams or like it is called in Germany The Man In The Mountains ( Der Mann in den Bergen ). I guess the guys who translated the title must have been Tolkien fans and as it so happens the aforementioned Denver Pyle played one of the main characters, Mad Jack on the show. Just hearing the title song brings back so many memories. God, I love that show. No disrespect to Today´s tv series but they just don´t make tv shows like this anymore.


Speaking about tv entertainment here is a video that explains a lot of the differences between watching tv in Germany and watching tv in America and I guess I have to post all of my videos about life in Germany in the next months because once I have to leave the country it will be a moot point. I don´t think I will write as much about Germany once that happens although german comicbooks might be the exception. Boy, I have no idea what I will do with all my Weissblech comicsbooks. I have the complete collection of Hammerharte Horrorschocker and some of them may even be very valuable because a lot of issues are out of print. Well, we´ll see.


In our last post we had some of the best examples of animation so it´s only fair that in this post we have some of the worst. Although it´s still better than the abomination that followed Earth´s Mightiest Heroes.


Since I mentioned the tittilating toom sex fantasy Jessica Rabbit in this post I wanted to include a video that was not your typical cosplay video.


Don´t get me wrong, I love a good cosplay and all the talented women I posted who have cosplayed as Jessica Rabbit have done an exceptional job. But I don´t like to repeat myself - too often - so here is an incredible Jessica Rabbit pole dance from España Tiene Talento ( Spain Got Talent ).


I got the sneaking suspicion that comicbooks are underrepresented in this section so here is the Artist´s Edition of Gene Colan´s Dracula. Last year I was thinking about buying this but I waited too long and when I had finally made up my mind it wasn´t available anymore. But right now I´m glad I did not buy it because I already have three Artist´s Edition and one Artifact Edition ( Artist´s Editions contain complete issues while Artifact Editions only have certain pages from several issues ) and I don´t know if I can keep any of them. They are pretty big and hefty so transporting them would be very difficult but they were pretty expensive as they cost an arm and a leg in Germany. Plus as far as I could find out they don´t sell them in Spain. So if I want to have any I will have to take them with me.


One thing I can look forward to are the hot masssitas in Spain like Cristina Pedroche who always comes up with a mindblowing dress for the grape eating ceremony when the bells ring in the New Year. At least she´s still doing it since I somehow missed it last year. But I did catch her dress from the year before that which probably even gave the Oscar statue a boner.

Now that´s what I call a dress. Holey Moley ! You know for whom this dress would be perfect ? Halle Berry. Without the gold part though. Anyway, this is one of the reasons why Cristina Pedroche has such a huge .... following.


But being serious for a moment besides being mas bueno que el pan as we say in Spain it´s the fact that she can be funny and awkward fan - girling about her favorite actor or soccer team but also is a good sport and has no problem showing her sexy side by re - enacting Salma Hayek´s table dance from the movie From Dusk Till Dawn ( in full costume !!! ) or wearing a special dress to celebrate the new year that has made her so popular. 


Originally I wanted to include Park Kiyoung´s rendition of O Holy Night to show that I´m not only a k - pop fan because of the sexually charged live performances and the pornstar bodies of the idols and that they have real singing chops but it is blocked and you can only watch it on YouTube .

So instead we are staying in Spain with another lady who has great singing chops : Monica Naranjo. I have not posted a lot of her videos because I am still looking for her live performance of Desatame from the show A Galicia Gente Va where she was wearing a black jacket and underneath it a red wonderbra that pushed her giant - sized 34D boobs almost up to her chin.


Nope, this video doesn´t have anything to do with Christmas or anything else I mentioned in this post. I just like to re - watch it from time to time.


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