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On this night in 1979, BBC Two was showing a thing called The Hellstrom Chronicle, described as an Oscar winning science fact-fiction film which posits that all species are in decline except humans and insects. Thus, the fictional Dr Hellstrom suggests the possible outcome of man's competition with those creatures.
That all sounds genuinely odd and I'm not totally sure whether I saw it or not but, of course, its main source of interest to me is its protagonist shares a surname with the Son of Satan. Was this pure coincidence or was the writer a fan of the hell-spawned hero?
If he was, he would no doubt have been excited to find out what was occurring in the pages of Marvel UK's finest publications in the week his show aired.
For about the eight millionth issue running, Luke Skywalker finds himself up against the menace of Baron Tagge.
This time, they're in a lightsabre battle, with Tagge viewing it as a practise bout before taking on Darth Vader himself.
Of the rest of this issue's contents, I know little but I do know the back cover features a chance to win a trip to the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
All I can say is it's a good job it was a UK Marvel comic that offered the prize, and not a US one, or there would have been a very disappointed winner a few months later.
The Hulk's still on that alien spaceship and still trashing it, to such a degree they decide to dump him back on Earth to get rid of him.
Ant-Man and the Wasp are still battling with an evil jazz trumpeter.
After what feels like decades of faffing about, the Eternals have finally got round to merging themselves to create the Uni-Mind.
Merlin and the Black Knight are still battling to retrieve Captain Britain from the land of the dead.
In the second of the book's two Hulk tales, the green grappler and Captain America find themselves up against the Corporation and the genuinely baffling threat of Animus.
And, as always, I don't have a clue what Nick Fury's up to.
I can confidently announce Spidey's up against the White Dragon in this issue.
Beyond that, I can say nothing.
That all sounds genuinely odd and I'm not totally sure whether I saw it or not but, of course, its main source of interest to me is its protagonist shares a surname with the Son of Satan. Was this pure coincidence or was the writer a fan of the hell-spawned hero?
If he was, he would no doubt have been excited to find out what was occurring in the pages of Marvel UK's finest publications in the week his show aired.
For about the eight millionth issue running, Luke Skywalker finds himself up against the menace of Baron Tagge.
This time, they're in a lightsabre battle, with Tagge viewing it as a practise bout before taking on Darth Vader himself.
Of the rest of this issue's contents, I know little but I do know the back cover features a chance to win a trip to the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
All I can say is it's a good job it was a UK Marvel comic that offered the prize, and not a US one, or there would have been a very disappointed winner a few months later.
The Hulk's still on that alien spaceship and still trashing it, to such a degree they decide to dump him back on Earth to get rid of him.
Ant-Man and the Wasp are still battling with an evil jazz trumpeter.
After what feels like decades of faffing about, the Eternals have finally got round to merging themselves to create the Uni-Mind.
Merlin and the Black Knight are still battling to retrieve Captain Britain from the land of the dead.
In the second of the book's two Hulk tales, the green grappler and Captain America find themselves up against the Corporation and the genuinely baffling threat of Animus.
And, as always, I don't have a clue what Nick Fury's up to.
I can confidently announce Spidey's up against the White Dragon in this issue.
Beyond that, I can say nothing.
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