Geek-post alert!
I don't see why I need to apologise for that, since the five of you regularly reading this blog have surely by now proved either your geek credentials - or at the very least your geek tolerance.
Anyway, I discovered this rather cool website, Mike's Amazing World of Marvel Comics where you can check out the Marvel comics that were out on the day you born. (It's kind of like checking out what was Number One in the charts on the day you were born*... for people with even fewer friends.) Even better, to cope with the peculiarities of periodical publication, you can search both by comics that were cover-dated the month of your birth and comics that were actually on the stands.
Here's mine, by Cover Date... and On Sale.
There were some great comics available around this time - including Avengers #100, Hulk #152 (Trial of the Hulk), Marvel Team-Up #1 - plus the first appearance of Luke Cage in Hero For Hire #1. Which means, in a way, Luke Cage and me are exactly the same age. But TSHFKA Power Man wasn't the only character making a debut (of sorts) in March 1972...
Here's my pick of the most appropriate cover from the month of my birth.
In other comics news, it's Omega Red week over at Thoughtballoons. Not a character I'm hugely familiar - a Russian Wolverine baddie with "carbonadium tentacles" who can drain the life force from his foes - but I had more fun with my one-pager than I expected.
I'm still reviewing over at Rob's Comics On The Ration blog too - click here to read what I thought of Black Widow: Deadly Origin.
Speaking of Rob, do take a moment to pop over to the Crisp Biscuit Blog and check out his Amazing Alternate Voting System Fantasy for the truth behind last week's ultimately pointless UK elections... and his Amazing Royal Wedding Fantasy for the truth behind... well, y'know, the Royal Wedding.
*That would be Harry Nilsson, singing Badfinger's mournful masterpiece Without You. Which seems equally apt.
