By George ! The Brave And The Bold - 10

I thought long and hard about how to start the new year and since my last post was about a series from Marvel I wanted to do the next post about DC. And since it is still a few days until Joe Staton´s birthday I thought " Why not continue with a series that I have neglected for too long ? " .

Now if you are a frequent visitor of the blog you might be a bit bewildered that this is the first " official " post of 2019 because there have been some posts popping up AFTER my last post like the one about asian hotties Gail Kim and Kiana Tom , my newest cult siren Normani or the lengthy post about underrated comic scribe Fabian Nicieza and artist Greg Capullo.

But the thing is that those were originally part of my big Sylvester post and I had to cut them. Now I could have dated them when they were finished. But one thing I try to do on the blog is keep the things as real as possible so in order to make it possible for visitors to read the post like it was supposed to be read - and in the right order - I dated them on the same day so that when somebody reads the blog ( and I am only guessing here that people read the posts the same way I do which means I start at the top, then read to the bottom and continue with the next page ) he already gets them in the right reading order and does not get confused.

Also if I had dated them at the time I decided to cut them from the main post or when I finished them I would have had to include the celebrity birthdays for that particular day which in turn would have made the posts even longer. And maybe I would have had to cut some stuff from those posts too which totally would have defeated the purpose of making them.

Which is why this is the first official post of 2019. The last chapter of Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek´s THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD was posted at the end of April last year so - as always - for those who missed my previous posts or want to go back and re - read them to refresh their memory here are issue 1, issue 2, issue 3, issue 4, issue 5, issue 6, issue 7 and issue 8 .

And with all that taken care of let´s get back to our story in progress. 

The website with the comic book birthdays is working once again so there will be more comic book related content in our posts. I thought of going back and see which anniversaries I missed but frankly said that would be too much work as I would have to change a lot. So we are keeping it real and all the anniversaries I missed have to wait until the end of this year.

So we start the new year in style and our first anniversary is on the 2nd of January. And while I haven´t done an official birthday post for him yet I wrote a tribute post for Don Heck back in August which included a lot of Iron Man pages from the german Williams Comics Verlag since I know that my readers abroad like to see such rarities. I also wrote a lot about Don Heck on his anniversary last year in my tribute post for Jerry Ordway .

Anyway, as longtime readers of this blog know one of my pet peeves is to spotlight artists who are underappreciated, undervalued or underrated, in short any creators where I think they undeservedly got the short end of the stick. I also mentioned that in my opinion Don Heck is such an artist because for most people he is just the guy who drew IRON MAN until Gene Colan took on the title or AVENGERS until John Buscema took over. Most people forget that he did not only solid artwork but he also drew some of the sexiest babes in comics ( which was one of the reasons why he got such high profile titles ) and he also did a lot of work for DC on titles like TEEN TITANS, AQUAMAN, BATMAN or THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA.

On January the 3rd we have the anniversary of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien or like most people know him J. R. R. Tolkien. I know that it sounds like bragging but when somebody brings me so much joy I think the least I can do is take the time to learn his full name. Even before the movies by Peter Jackson were made I enjoyed the world of Middle Earth through the Ralph Bakshi adaptation and the books The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings trilogy as I have read the latter ones a few times. Anyway, this is a video that I have carried through for a long time but now I am finally posting it.



It´s back to comic books or better said bande dessinee as we are heading to France and Andre Franquin who is best known for his series Spirou ( Spirou and Fantasio in Germany ) that introduced the famous Marsupilami which became so popular that it got its own series before long. Another supporting character who got his own series is intern Gaston Lagaffe.



This is one of the comics where you think it is impossible to do a movie adaptation but you know the french, they not only go ahead and just do it, they also find the perfect actor for the title role. Like the Anacleto movie I am not sure if it will ever be shown in german movie theaters.



For my german readers I want to include a video that takes a look at the politics in comic books with special attention to the way various comics have been translated in Germany to promote certain political agendas.



Our first cult siren is blonde sexbomb Linda Kozlowski who turned 61 on the 7th of January. Thanks to Linda revealing her posterior that almost rivals an afro - american woman´s butt in regards to size and ripeness the first Crocodile Dundee is not only still in reruns on the telly but it´s also an indispensable part of every heterosexual male´s Blue Ray collection.

Despite having re - posted her original cult siren entry from 2015 two times I always looked forward to doing a new version because it gave me an excuse to put more german Superman / Batman covers on the blog.

Continuing with hot sexbombs that know how to wear a swimsuit Amy " bouncing action "  Dolenz celebrated her 50th birthday on January the 8th.

It´s a callback to those hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer we miss so much in the winter as Ami is most famous for one of THE most erotic scenes in movie history running across the beach with a lot of bouncing action in She´s Out Of Control and she´s not even wearing a bikini - or a thong !

I first mentioned Ami in my MIDNIGHT MOVIE MADNESS : PUMPKINHEAD post because she also appeared in Pumpkinhead 2 : Blood Wings. There was a comic adaptation of that movie by Dark Horse Comics with art by Shawn McManus that was supposed to be four issues but only two were published and the second issue ends on a cliffhanger. I didn´t include any links for the series in the old post but I found posts with some of the art on Jim McDermott´s DENIZENS OF THE DARKNESS ( issue 1 / issue 2 ).

Speaking of the Pumpkinhead franchise, a few years ago the guys from Dynamite Entertainment did a new comic book series which I meant to check out but unless I am writing a post I seem to completely blank on it.

We are staying with horror movies and comic books with another gem from Ami Dolenz´ cineastic oeuvre, Stepmonster ( about which you can find more through the links in this post ). Besides an Aquaman reference there is a comic book in the movie that contains the secret to how to kill the terrible Tropopkin but so far I wasn´t able to find a picture of that comic.

Well, as you can see I did find a picture of the cover which is courtesy of John Campopiano´s article Embracing Roger Corman´s Stepmonster With Filmmaker Billy Corben at DREAD CENTRAL which not only has everything you would ever want to know about the movie but also a picture of some interior art from the comic book. Yes, I still don´t know who did the art.

Next we have singing siren Sabrina Setlur who turned 45 on January the 10th which takes me back to the days when there were 2 music video channels I watched and german rap bands. To american readers this may be news but there are also rappers here in Germany, Sabrina started as Schwester S with the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt and I remember staying up late at night so I could tape the remix of Folge Dem Stern - because there was more Sabrina Setlur in that one. One scene in particular ended up as a loop on many of my music video / erotic movie clips mix tapes.

We are skipping a few days to include Grant Gustin who celebrates his 29th birthday Today. He is of course best known for playing Barry Allen on the hugely popular series The Flash. Right now the show is still on hiatus which means I may have the time to watch the Elseworlds crossover one more time. So far I am enjoying the new season and the new costume.



For those who are mega anxious to continue with The Flash you might want to check out the Lego version. I haven´t seen this one yet but so far they haven´t disappointed - unlike the Justice League of America movie.



There may be people out there who have finally decided to get into the comics but don´t know where to start so here is a look at Mark Waid´s Flash run ( no pun intended ). The Mark Waid series is really where you should start even though it stars Wally West and not the Flash you are familiar with. Because not only do you get to see a hero working his way from the ground up this book also introduced a lot of new concepts to the Flash mythology you know from the tv show like the speed force. Looking at all these Flash videos makes me realize how much I miss writng my FLASH FRIDAY WITH posts which at a time really became a weekly thing.



Since I mentioned them at the beginning of the post I want to come back to these two cult sirens starting with Normani and her best dance breaks.



I thought about adding a match with hasian knockout Gail Kim but I´d rather watch her posing for pictures in a skimpy outfit. Wouldn´t you ?



Closing out things for Today is Cry Of The Werewolf from 1944. I never heard of the movie but I´m a sucker for these old black and white flicks.



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One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Swimsuit thong cult siren Linda Kozlowski

Today I just want to give a quick shout out ( yeah, like that has ever worked before ) to Linda Kozlowski, who celebrates her 59th birthday.

She has left the movie business because of the roles she was offered but back when she was still looking hot she starred in the ever so popular movie series of CROCODILE DUNDEE opposite ex - husband Paul Hogan.

Yeah, leave it to the germans to come up with a subtitle that makes no sense whatsoever. First of all they always have to attach some stupid subtitle to any movie and then it must make absolutely no sense. WTF is " Crocodile Dundee - a kissable crocodile " supposed to mean ? The main character is not a crocodile, that´s just his nickname in the movie, duh.

But let´s get back to celebrity birthday babe Linda Kozlowski. Rather than for her acting abilities she´s most famous for sporting a very revealing swimsuit in the first CROCODILE DUNDEE movie which is still the best.

And I´m not only saying that because of the famous scene in which Linda revealed which incredible ass - ets she had " down under ", so to speak.

Daimn, baby got some serious back ! Man, can you imagine how hot it would have been if she would have starred in one of those rap videos ?

And I´m not talking about some of the lame rap videos that we have Today. Something went terribly wrong with rap videos along the way.

When I saw my first rap videos - and this was way back when Mtv was still playing music videos 24 hours a day - there´d be a song about crossing the street to buy some ice cream and there would be at least a dozen scantily clad, super hot girls in it shaking their behinds, dancing very suggestive.



Then there was that time when the guys in rap videos would talk about having intercourse and with how many women and the video would be about flowers, ponies and rainbows. Something suggestive like a train going through a tunnel would be the absolute limit. Thankfully this was just a passing trend and we are back to rap videos with plenty of hot babes in it. And just in time to benefit from the whole twerking craze.



But like I said, as wonderful as Miss Kozlowski´s exposed derriere is, the first CROCODILE DUNDEE is a great movie in itself that was nominated for 3 Oscars and 3 Golden Globes of which Paul Hogan won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy / Musical. It also was nominated by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, the BAFTA Awards and won a BMI Film & TV Award and the Goldene Leinwand ( Golden Screen Award ) in 1987.

The sequel wasn´t as good but I want to mention it because the poster that was selected for display in movie theaters was not the first version.

This was the first draft : as you can see the color of Linda´s clothes were changed as to better display her figure and instead of being in the middle of the city Paul Hogan is now towering majestically above the skyline.

All the posters were done by movie poster veteran Dan Gouzee who did hundreds of classic movie posters like the original CLASH OF THE TITANS or the James Bond flicks MOONRAKER  and A VIEW TO A KILL. Especially that last one was very popular in its time ( in great part due to featured model / singer / performance artist Grace Jones ) and I remember that I was just one of the many teenagers who had it mounted on his wall.

He also did the posters for SUPERMAN II and SUPERMAN IV. The first is not so well known because usually they go with the photo movie poster.

For me the new Superman movies were always a big deal and you could read all the latest news in the SUPERMAN BATMAN comics from Ehapa.

There were always some extra stuff in the comics like articles, posters, games or prize competitions, sometimes even cash prizes or tv sets.

Back then I was a semi regular reader which means that I always bought an issue when George Perez or Jose Luis Garcia Lopez did the interior art.
 

Which doesn´t mean that I didn´t buy other issues now and then because sometimes I did buy it just because of some crazy story but every time George or Jose Luis did an issue I was all over it. The names of artists were not always given but I think I started noticing that the same names came up in all the stories I especially liked. And I began looking for that around the time when they had started doing that on a regular basis.

Since the name of the title was SUPERMAN BATMAN there was also a lot of Jim Aparo stuff in the books from issues of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD,

BATMAN or DETECTIVE COMICS and everything in between. Although sometimes it´s hard to find out from which series the covers where and I suspect there are some that were exclusively done for the german issues.

Looking at the SUPERMAN II poster I realize that I forgot that Valerie Perrine was in it. That´s one thing they botched in SUPERMAN RETURNS.

Here´s a deleted scene from SUPERMAN with Valerie Perrine :



Many people don´t know it but centerfold Valerie Perrine was also in one of the best known scenes from the first CANNONBALL RUN movie ( I´m not sure who did the movie poster for that one but Dan Gouzee did the poster for the sequel ) and the reason for that is that she´s uncredited.

The most remembered scenes from that movie involve the Lamborghini Babes played by Tara Buckman and cult siren Adrienne Barbeau. I have written about Adrienne before who was in such cult classics like THE FOG, SWAMP THING, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and - arguably - CREEPSHOW.

Now I don´t think I have to explain the Lamborghini Babes whose main trick to avoid getting hassled by the cops is flashing some cleavage.

Which doesn´t work on this cop played by Valerie Perrine.

Here´s a video that includes both Lamborghini Babes scenes :



Speaking about Cannonball Run, one of my pet pevees on this blog is celebrating all the brave actresses who turn unsufferable 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.

Now if you have seen Cannonball Run you will remember the hot waitress with the extra - large double whoppers in the opening scene whose name is not in the opening credits, in the end credits or on any internet page ( and believe me fella, I´ve looked ). Well, just recently I found a clip with some scenes of Farrah Fawcett from the movie and her scene is also in there. So far I just called her The Busenwunder Waitress but now I can tell you that her real name is Vickie Reigle. Now in Germany Vickie is not really a good name for a woman - just ask german singer Nikki who had to suffer a lot of dirty jokes because of her name ( what rhymes with " Nikki ? " ). So to be actually called Vickie - not a good thing in Germany.

There are quite a lot of tangents in this post but before closing the subject of birthday babe Linda Kozlowski for Today I want to include a video with her famous thong swimsuit scene from CROCODILE DUNDEE.



And since you never know when it will be deleted here´s an animated GIF.

I always wanted to do a post on HONEY WEST but since I never was sure if it was a comic series based on a tv show or a tv show based on a pulp novel series or a pulp novel series based on a comic I never did a post.

To tell the truth, I´m still not sure but at least I know for sure that there was a tv show with actress Anne Francis. Last year I posted episode 3 titled The Abominable Snowman - which is also the name of a Doctor Who serial and a film from Britain´s Hammer Studios starring Peter Cushing to which we may or may not come in upcoming Hammer movie discussions. Anyway, since I skipped over it here is episode 2 The Owl And The Eye.



It´s been a while since I posted a cosplay video but I just had to post this one with Ardella´s Power Girl cosplay . Okay, one reason for that is that she really puts a lot of effort into filling out the costume ( I won´t even pretend that I´m not meaning this literal here, who am I kidding ? ).

The other one is that the optimist in me had hoped the whole cosplay bashing was a thing of the past but it seems it still continues . Even as someone who has been a comic fan for decades I still have problems with these kind of trench warfare but before I get all exited and launch a long rant I´m posting this link to a video where Ardella explains the real problems with sexy cosplay instead ( which sadly is how other people respond to it ). Be that as it may that should never prevent people from having fun - which is what cosplaying is all about - so here´s the video.



And I couldn´t possibly talk about the problems in the cosplay community without mentioning hasian cosplay ambassador extraordinaire Yaya Han.

I still haven´t given up on doing a post about my favorite costumes by Yaya Han ( like Chun Li ) even if I have problems keeping it professional and not let myself get distracted by her stunning physical attributes.

Nevertheless I have just found too many videos with her I want to post that it´s impossible to cram it all into one post even if I do someday miraculously get around to do it. So here´s a new one with Yaya as Aion .



And speaking about favorite costumes, if Yaya needs any ideas as who to cosplay next how about this one ? Surely she has the skills to pull it off !



Since I don´t have any videos for Today´s other celebrity birthdays and I´m not sure if I can safely put a video from The Voice Kids in this post here is another one with the sexy Hyuna. I know she has her fans among the readers and I like to include her in the posts when I mention Yaya.



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