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1977 – Smack 58 of 77 – Justice League #138 to #150
I’ve always loved super-team comics. The Fantastic Four and X-Men might be teams first and individual superheroes second (unlike The Justice League and The Avengers), but they taught me as a teenager...
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1977 – Smack 59 of 77 – The All-New Super Friends Hour
To say I grew up with Hanna-Barbera Productions would be an understatement. A day didn’t go by without at least a couple of cartoons on the telly, and while I didn’t realise it at the time, a fair...
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1977 – Smack 60 of 77 – Apple II
I’ve already RetroSmacked a video game console for 1977. Now it’s time to talk about a ground-breaking home computer system, the Apple II. Just as with the Atari 2600, I didn’t own one of these beasts...
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1977 – Smack 61 of 77 – Martin
During an awards speech in 2009, long-time fan Quentin Tarantino quipped that the “A” in George A. Romero stands for “A fucking genius” (it stands for Andrew actually, but Quentin’s take is much more...
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1977 – Smack 62 of 77 – Star Ship
I knew nothing about Star Ship, but it sounded like the sort of thing I might like. The 1977 advertisement for the game actually made it sound pretty awesome: “Hurtle through space in the cockpit of a...
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1977 – Smack 63 of 77 – White Dwarf
These days magazines might not seem all that important to fans of the sort of content that appears on RetroSmack. Back in the pre-internet days though, they were nothing if not absolutely critical!...
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1977 – Smack 64 of 77 – Cerebus #1 to #7
One thing I really wanted to do with RetroSmack is explore a heap of stuff that I otherwise never would have. Our interests and hobbies are so often guided by our upbringing, and moving away from built...
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1977 – Smack 65 of 77 – The Shining
I became a Stephen King fan in my early teenage years. Like many of my hobbies, it was my elder brother’s influence that got things rolling. I’d been obsessively reading Dragonlance novels for a couple...
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1977 – Smack 66 of 77 – The Flights of Icarus
In my H.R. Giger post (Smack 12), I stated that the macabre Swiss artist would be the first of two artists I’d be covering for 1977. Anyone that was paying attention would therefore have been pretty...
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1977 – Smack 67 of 77 – Suspiria
I went through a stage about a decade ago where I started collecting a bunch of Anchor Bay’s anniversary and limited edition DVDs (this is not a smart financial move for anyone that has collector...
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