Friday, 30 January 2015

Face It, Tiger... You Just Hit The Jackpot!! (1958)


An appropriate title to this image of an unknown model photographed by Harrison Marks for Kamera No.7 (1958). The tiger skin rug seems to be a prominent feature throughout this early edition of Kamera, not that it really distracts from the key focus on the image.

For those geeks amongst us the title is a reference back to The Amazing Spider-Man No.42 (November 1966) and the introduction of Mary Jane Watson (MJ) who makes her first appearance in this comic and utters these words to Peter Parker/Spider-man when they first meet. It has become something of a catchphrase for the character.

Another small piece of trivia about me, is that I also used to collect comic books from the early 1960's onwards, including Spider-man. My collection exceeds over 6000 different comics and titles and if sold could buy the wife a new kitchen, but don't tell her that!

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  1. talking of comics, if your collection is from the 60's you must have a bit of Dr Strange in there, he was always my favourite, with the Silver Surfer coming a close second - but if the coming Dr Strange film is anything as bad as any of the films that the silver surfer has appeared in it'll be a huge let down - pity - still, it is cumberbatch in the lead role I think, so he might make a decent job of it.

    roop

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    1. Roop, wasn't a big Dr Strange fan so don't have many but as you say now there is going to be a film his appearances will be sought after. I have plenty of Silver Surfer though, but like you say disappointed in his film appearances thus far! The new version of the Fantastic Four film looks interesting ...

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