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And it stares back at you!

Yeah, I wanted to add a few more photos that got the error code and have now edited my post to include the two extras. I think the Bow Wow Wow event was maybe 1984 or 85.

Here's a blast from the past . . . Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates from the Jon Pertwee era) hosted a Bow Wow Wow event (whatever that was supposed to be . . . it sounded nutty then and remains nutty now) on a boat cruising down London's River Thames to Greenwich (stopping for several hours' free time) before heading back down the river late afternoon for the main event . . . some sort of audience participation play involving sing-songs and Richard Franklin dressed-up as a schoolboy. Franklin had been visiting Doctor Who Appreciation Local Groups to drum-up support for his Bow Wow Wow thingy that was basically a charity for African famine relief. A group of us fancied the day out in London so bought tickets for the event . . . which was totally rubbish . . . but we had such a good day out, for all the wrong reasons (drinking lots of alcohol and getting drunk). The day got off to a bad start when the bar opened and one of the bar staff said to her co-workers, "I think this is supposed to be an effing Dr Who play-group . . . just what we effing need, a bunch of effing weirdos." We were a bit taken aback by all that, but got into the spirit of things by propping-up the bar en route to Greenwich . . . where we found some more bars to carry on drinking. On the way back from Greenwich later on in the afternoon, we were treated to 'The Bow Wow Wow Show'. Cringe-worthy stuff, but we were so plastered by then it didn't really matter that none of it made sense. One of Franklin's assistants tried to get me up to join-in the 'fun', but I (not so) politely told him where he could shove that idea . . . A few of my mates got up . . . and I've been blackmailing them ever since with photos I took After the main event, they had a disco . . . with some truly awful wannabe John Travolta types strutting their dodgy dance-moves. A truly memorable day . . . for all the wrong reasons!

Yeah, g'night. A few more beers and I'll be off to bed myself

Fan-fiction writers are usually writing to an audience of . . . oh, I dunno . . . maybe one (themselves).

Funny thing is several years after being bounced out of the MLG (I also got ejected from the DWAS, lol!), Chris Chibnall joined the Merseyside Local Group. He can be seen on (I think) a Nationwide clip in which he slates Pip and Jane Baker for their Trial of a Time Lord scripts . . . complaining about stories involving running around spaceship interiors . . . only to give us the same thing in his own Dr Who (miserable) efforts years later. I can imagine Chibnall contributing fan-fiction to the MLG's fanzine (which he may well have done?). If so, he never really moved forward with his (ahem) 'writing skills' . . .

Yeah, I had lots of fun in the 1980s with Dr Who fandom and the great (and not-so-great) guys I met along the way. To be honest, I only ever joined the Dr Who Appreciation Society in the first place to access video copies of (then) unavailable episodes (a few years before commercial video releases). The Merseyside Local Group produced its own news-zine that later morphed into a fanzine. After an acrimonious split with the the group (the organizer decided to ban a group of us for wanting to produce our own fanzine . . . he was a bit of a control freak) I moved away from the DWAS and MLG. Not too long afterwards, I started publishing my own fanzine, Shadow Play, which had some Dr Who content in issue 4. Some images of my own stuff (the Sci-Fi Times cover is obviously channelling Wally Wood):

The first issue of my old 1980s fanzine Shadow Play can now be found at a hefty price: Shadow Play no 1. Special Outer Limits Issue! by Doyle Terry: 1st Edition Magazine / Periodical | Rattlesnake Books (abebooks.com)

Oh, I don't know . . . Colin Baker from the original series was pretty dire.

They won't!

Yeah, I got it from Benno Rothschild who traded it to me for the Haunt of Fear # 6 cover along with a story swap.

I started collecting EC art back in 1982 and over a ten year period put-together a collection of several hundred pages of new-trend art . . . sadly now all gone. Only EC art I have remaining are two complete books of art from the 1940s when EC stood for Educational Comics. Here's the cover to one of those complete books:

Great cover, it hung on my wall for many years!

I turned my hand to sculpting full-size (for the most part) busts of OUTER LIMITS aliens several years ago, having never sculpted anything before in my life. I took a break from the OL stuff to sculpt a DR WHO alien from the original series ( a group of long-time friends in the UK had been asking me to do some DR WHO stuff), so here's my first effort in that direction . . . a Draconian from the 1973 Jon Pertwee story, 'Frontier in Space'. He stands about 15" tall and is the first of five copies I cast from a plaster mold: Additional images can be seen at my CAF galleries: DR WHO - 'Frontier in Space', in Terry Doyle's MISCELLANEOUS Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

Pride and joy of my 'wall' displays is the original painting by Brian Bysouth for THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973). As this was primarily a British movie (Ray Harryhausen was living in the UK at the time), this was 'the' campaign artwork: Shortly after this photo was taken, my American friend, Lloyd Braddy, re-created all the missing text elements which were incorporated onto the painting:

Hi I've had this unpublished PULSE # 2 cover by Mike Mayhew for a while and am thinking of consigning it to auction. Although not published as the # 2 cover, I do know that it was later used as a pin-up for a TPB collection of PULSE. Can anyone here provide a scan of the art as it was later published in the TPB collection? The artwork was actually done in two parts, merged together in publication.

Another sculpting project now completed. This is my full-size bust of an alien Draconian from the 1973 Jon Pertwee Dr Who adventure, 'Frontier in Space. He stands about 15" tall. Sculpting and casting processes included in the photo selection . . . along with a screen-capture from the televised story for comparison (though my version is not based on any one alien character as there were a bunch of them in the story):

That's a terrific photo of Jack and Roz. Don't think I've seen that one before. HB, Jack!

And good luck with your confused.com problem in which you lose track of who the OP was and his responders.

Because their might be other pages, I'm after, no? Just because one door closes, doesn't mean others remain ajar. How about you letting this one goooooooooo???????? My initial response to the OP was more about the idea that there are some individuals who will try to exploit you. There, does 'exploit' work better for you?

Don't you think I haven't already done all that? Maybe 'extortion' isn't the best of descriptions, but when someone tells you that, "If you want me to release this page to you, you're going to have to pay through the nose for it", doesn't exactly seem like a reasonable person to negotiate with. Yeah, I moved on, but I remember. Am I trying to put something back together because I think the entire serial be will worth more than the sum of its parts? Value has nothing to do with it in my case. I couldn't care less about that.

Not when the other person has already declared to me that the page I want is nothing special to him.

Depends on your sense of self-respect and if that last remaining page is realistically priced (sounds like the owner could be practicing extortion?). I've been trying to put back together two 1965 UK serials for years. A Spanish collector has one page that's important to me, but has something like 10 x FMV on his page that I'm not about to jump through hoops to acquire. I've made a very generous offer but will not go the route of masochism to obtain the art. I own a couple of pre-trend EC complete books (covers and interiors) that I bought in their entirety. Nothing special to me. Another run I've been pursuing is the Marshall Rogers Demon With a Glass Hand graphic novel from (I think) 1986. On that one, I'm just happy to now own ten representative pages plus the cover prelim. Putting the book back together is never going to happen and it's not my aim.

Latest sculpting project finished . . . full-size bust Andro from the OUTER LIMITS episode, 'The Man Who Was Never Born'. My display copy is the brown version and the spare copy I keep has been painted green (because the original series was in b&w paint-schemes can go in any direction). The hair piece is a cheap wig I bought off eBay. Included in the selection of photos is the process involved from start to finish on sculpting in clay, to making a mold, to casting copies. Have also included a couple of screen-captures from the filmed episode for comparison.