“Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
And stars fill my dream
I'm a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been”
And stars fill my dream
I'm a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been”
-“Kashmir”, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant & John Bonham (1975)
Time now to turn back the clock to February of 1975, where we’ll find images of Margaret Thatcher, Mel Brooks and Warren Beatty while DC continued to churn out first issues including the Joker and Tor!
News of the Month:
1st - President Ford announces that the 1976 fiscal year budget would reflect a deficit of 52 billion dollars. At the time, it was "the largest peacetime deficit in the nation's history"
9th- Soyuz 17 cosmonauts Georgi Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev return to Earth after one month in orbit aboard the Salyut 4 space station
11th - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party, the first woman to lead a major British political party
14th - English-American writer P.G. Wodehouse dies at 93
18th- The first major protest against the building of a nuclear power plant begins in the city of Wyhl in West Germany
21st - Watergate figures John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman & John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs for conspiracy and obstruction of justice
24th – Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin released
26th - Gerald Ford becomes the first incumbent U.S. President to play in a PGA golf tournament, as an amateur in a pro-am event, the Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic, playing with Jack Nicklaus, Jackie Gleason, and Bob Hope.
28th- In the worst disaster in the 112-year history of London's underground subway system, 43 people are killed when their six-car train sped past its stop at London's Moorgate station and crashes into a wall.
Newsreel of the Month: Thatcher Elected Conservative Party Leader (February 11, 1975)
Magazine Cover of the Month: The Mad Mad World of Mel Brooks (Newsweek, February 17, 1975)
Music of the Month: A funky band from Scotland boogied up the charts, while a sweet girl from Arizona had her first big solo hit
US Top Singles:
1. Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band
2. You’re No Good - Linda Ronstadt
3. Best Of My Love – The Eagles
4. Fire - Ohio Players
5. Some Kind Of Wonderful – Grand Funk Railroad
UK Top Singles:
1. January - Pilot
2. Goodbye My Love - Glitter Band
3. Sugar Candy Kisses - Mac & Katie Kissoon
4. Please Mr Postman – The Carpenters
5. The Bump - Kenny
Further Down the Charts: Stevie Wonder took “Boogie On Reggae Woman” to #3
Movie of the Month: “Shampoo” starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie & Goldie Hawn (released February11, 1975)
TV Clip of the Month: Mary Tyler Moore turns heads in “You Try to Be A Nice Guy” otherwise known as “The Green Dress Episode” (first aired February 8, 1975)
Sports Moments of the Month: At the Daytona 500, Benny Parsons wins after Cale Yarborough sends race leader David Pearson spinning on the backstretch; Parsons avoids the accident and takes the victory (February 16, 1975)
Top 10 DC Comics of the Month (as selected by Osgood Peabody, listed in order of their publication):
Swamp Thing #16: Swamp Thing, Abby and Matt find themselves in the midst of a rebellion on a remote Caribbean island in “Night of the Warring Dead”! (Cover by Nestor Redondo)
Weird Western Tales #28: Jonah is hired to protect a shipment of gold in “Stagecoach to Oblivion”! (Cover by Luis Dominguez)
Joker #1: In the Clown Prince of Crime’s new comic, he finds himself at odds with Two-Face in “The Joker’s Double Jeopardy”! (Cover by Dick Giordano)
Kamandi #29: Kamandi runs into a bizarre cult that has preserved a familiar blue and red costume in “The Legend”! (Cover by Jack Kirby & D. Bruce Berry)
Tor #1: Journey back to the world of a million years ago, where cavemen fought dinosaurs and ape-men! (Cover by Joe Kubert)
Omac #5: Omac attempts to thwart a criminal plot to harvest new bodies for old rich folks to transplant themselves into in “New Bodies for Old”!
Our Fighting Forces #155: The Losers find themselves behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia in order to come to the aid of “The Partisans”! (Cover by Jack Kirby & D. Bruce Berry)
Superman #287: The Man of Steel is finally reunited with Krypto in “Who Was That Dog I Saw You With Last Night?”, then in the Private Life of Clark Kent, the mild-mannered reporter is confronted by a “Bogus Batman”! (Cover by Dick Giordano)
Detective Comics #447: The Bat-Murderer Saga takes another twist when a new character attempts to intervene in “Enter: The Creeper”, plus the Teen Wonder unravels “The Puzzle of the Pyramids”! (Cover by Dick Giordano)
Adventure Comics #439: Will Jim Corrigan be given a new lease on life? Find out in “The Voice that Doomed the Spectre”! Then it’s Green Arrow and Speedy’s turn in the Seven Soldiers chapter entitled “Father Time’s Inn”! (Cover by Jim Aparo)
You can find all DC comics published this month right here courtesy of Mike Voiles’ Time Machine!
You can also find a lot of other publishers’ output this month courtesy of Mike’s site right here.
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