Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post was originally a supplemental edition of my Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade series, but casting a spotlight instead upon paperbacks and rock magazines.
There were two supplemental editions of Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade, and the second (devoted to superpulp paperbacks and rock 'n' roll 45s) will appear in a near-future Pop-A-Looza. The original series eventually split into two distinct entities, Comic Book Cover Cavalcade and LP Cover Cavalcade. Before the split, there were a total of nine Comics And LP Cover Cavalcades. Here are links to all of them (reprised from an earlier post):
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 2, with The Beatles, Funnyman, Chuck Berry, World's Finest Comics, Lesley Gore, Marvel Feature starring the Astonishing Ant-Man, The Flamin' Groovies, The Marvel Family, The Beau Brummels, and The Phantom.
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 3, with The Avengers, The Rolling Stones, Mighty Comics starring The Shield, The Black Hood, and The Web (and--swoon!--Pow Girl), Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Spectre, Rick James, Blue Beetle, The Runaways, The Scorpion, and Elvis Presley.
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 4, a Christmas edition, with Phil Spector's Christmas Album, Walt Disney's Christmas Parade, Now That's What I Call Music--The Christmas Album, Dennis The Menace, A Very Special Christmas, Batman, The Beatles' Christmas Album, Giant Superhero Holiday Grab Bag, The Best Of Cool Yule, and Christmas With The Super-Heroes.
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 5, with The Flintstones At The New York World's Fair, The 5th Dimension, Famous First Edition starring the original Captain Marvel, Fanny, Fantastic Four, Fleetwood Mac, The Fightin' 5, The Five Americans, The Fox And The Crow starring Stanley and his Monster, and The Four Tops.
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 6, with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Vampirella, Badfinger, The Green Hornet, Bebe Buell, Jonny Quest, ABBA, Showcase starring Dolphin, Cherry Vanilla, and Dr. Strange.
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 7, with The Archies meeting The Monkees, The Ramones, Superman Vs. The Amazing Spider-Man, The Everly Brothers, Wonder Woman, Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations, Strange Tales starring The Human Torch and The Thing (almost) meeting The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, The Partridge Family, and Bobby Vee Meets The Crickets.
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 8, with The Kinks, Batman, The Who, Marvel Tales, Little Richard, Marvel Super-Heroes, The Motown Story, Superman, 25 # 1 Hits From 25 Years, and The Great Comic Book Heroes.
Comics And LP Cover Cavalcade # 9, with The Animals, Shazam!, The Everly Brothers, The Avengers, Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, The Green Hornet, The Tremblers, Charlton Bullseye, The Beau Brummels, and Secret Origins.
While the individual Cavalcades live on, I'm overdue for a return to them. And I'm really overdue for a return to the subject of rock magazines. He Buys Every Rock 'n' Roll Book On The Magazine Stand was intended to be a multi-part reminiscence about the music mags I devoured in the '70s and '80s. I wrote the first three parts--about Circus and Rolling Stone, Phonograph Record Magazine, and Bomp!--but hiatusized before getting to the next chapter: "The Snark And The Fury: CREEM And The Dream."
That hiatus will end. Soon. Definitely soon. A number of my dormant series will see new editions here in 2021, beginning with the long-awaited return of The Everlasting First. In fact, the next edition of The Everlasting First--a look back at how I became a fan of Tarzan--is already done, and it will post on Friday. The CREEM retrospective won't be quite that quick to appear, but I hope to get to it, and to then continue that series with more about Trouser Press and my alma mater, Goldmine.
In the mean time, a review of past pulp and rock rag obsessions is immediately at hand. My paperback and rock magazine cavalcade is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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