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Spellbound No. 69, dated 14 January 1978. Supercats cover by Norman Lee. The "Extra-Special-News" was that this was the final issue and that it was merging with Debbie. DC Thomson.
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After some seasonal reconsideration, everybody is given long sleeves and more. Though, not that woman in the background. Or the girl in the foreground. Everybody else, though.
The booth clerks are sleeved and covered. But -- wait. Not necessarily all of the wandering background extras.
Hairy guy is fine without sleeves. The operator of the Whippersnapper loses the lower part of his arm -- maybe he would have had them had he been sleeved.
They (accidentally) kept the reprint with Ginger Blossom past the point where they had made that ignoble change, and then when they did revert to Cheryl Blossom dropped her bikini and kept the background setting change they had made with Ginger -- these reprintings come in Nov and Dec even though that still looks like an outdoor lawn chair.
Comic book adaptations of movies were generally pretty dull, but as a kid I pored over the Goodwin/Simonson/Janson adaptation of Close Encounters. It had a magic of its own that sprang entirely from their use of the medium. I studied it intensely and learned a lot about how comics can work.
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Fig 1: Simonson in 1978.
Fig 2: Me in 1998. I didn't realize I'd done this until years later!