Covering The Monkees

Have a heapin' helpin' of Monkee covers - 30 of 'em!

I tried to avoid pulling too many from the same source (though Tiger Beat sure doesn't make that easy!), so we have a few from their own comic, a few from other comics, and a bunch from a variety of magazines and books.

Let's open with my favorite of the Dell comic covers, though sadly it's in pretty beat up shape and there's been too much happening around here to allow time for a full restoration treatment -

A half century later, it continues.
While on my monthly grocery expidition yesterday i heard some folks talking about The Monkees coming to town, which isn't something i thought was possible these days.

But cave dwelling hermits miss out on a lot.

covers from the places they say they're from, except that lying Batman '66 and The Monkees cover,

which comes from Tyrone Biljan (1967-2017)

Sunday Monkee Funnies

For our Sunday Morning Funnies this week, let's go back to those UK Annuals for a bit longer look at their handling of The Monkees. Unfortunately, the UK Annuals are often quite bad at identifying the creators. We'll have to hope some knowledgeable folks from across the pond take pity on our ignorance.

I particularly enjoy the colours in those stories from the annuals. But - up there in the middle of it all...
Does it look to you like the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh actually existed on the Earth occupied by The Monkees?

It's probably just me, huh?

pages from The Monkees Annual #1 (UK) (1967)

Spaced Monkees

I made mention this past week of it being no secret that i was a fan of The Monkees. I later realized that most of my previous talk of the group had actually been elsewhere during that period when i was getting out to other blogs and forums to participate on a regular basis. (Hopefully, that will resume before too much longer.) Meanwhile, the need for more Monkees seems quite fitting while we've been rummaging through the Groovy Age. So let's spend part of this weekend indulging in a bit of Monkeemania.

A few months back, i spoke of having discovered the UK Annuals for The Monkees, and in that piece i ran this panel sequence:

That sequence is the opening of a short tale from the '68 Annual. Why don't we follow along and see what happens, eh?

Meanwhile, back in the USA, the boys were having quite different encounters with the military...

Of course, we all knew that they were launching monkees into space back then. But it wasn't the last time the boys would cavort off-world...

...but that's a different story entirely.

art by ?? from The Monkees Annual #2 (UK) and art by Jose Delbo for The Monkees #s 3 & 13(Dell) (1967,1968)