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INFINITY NEWS

Allan Bryce and James Whittington on your favourite TV shows and movie franchises…

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REVIEWS

Allan Bryce, and Peter Washington take a learned look at some of the best new cinema, home video and streaming releases

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WELCOME

THE RISING COSTS OF A STIFF ONE

YOU MUST BE MAD!

Mark Campbell takes a nostalgic look back at some of the best film and TV spoofs from the decidedly unwoke MAD magazine. This time round he brings you the final 15 of his top 30 spoof issues!

MASTER OF THE SPIDER-VERSE

In the first of a 2-part feature Pat Jankiewicz reveals how John Semper saved Spider-Man with his animated series, vampirized Blade, created The Spider-Verse and got no credit… Just like Spidey!

GORDON MITCHELL, BODYBUILDER

In Part 1 of an Infinity/Dark Side crossover, MJ Simpson digs out an archive interview with Gordon Mitchell, American star of dozens of Italian ‘sword and sandal’ movies…

BAXTER BASICS

We remember with great fondness the brilliant comedian Stanley Baxter, who passed on recently at the grand old age of 99

‘I’M A ROCKET FAN’

Our resident model expert Andy Pearson goes in search of the ideal concealed weapon and wonders why we aren’t all flying about with jet packs

HOLY ANNIVERSARY!

60 YEARS OF BATMAN MOVIES

FLYING ON EAGLES

Gregory Kulon looks back at War Eagles , the famous unmade 1939 Technicolor fantasy film about Vikings riding giant eagles, and fighting Nazis over New York!

MOLESWORTH’S MUSINGS

Richard remembers Cyborg and Muton, rival 9½-inch modular action figures released in the UK by Denys Fisher in the 1970s, based on Japanese Henshin Cyborg toys, featuring interchangeable limbs and accessories

Electric Tonalities

THE HISTORY OF SYNTHESISER MUSIC IN MOVIES

WHEELERS PEELERS

Joe Cushnan remembers Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced “ Zed Cars ” for our US readers), a legendary British TV police series about the work of mobile uniformed police and CID detectives in the fictional town of Newtown, near Liverpool

“AND IT WAS HERE THE VILLAIN MADE HIS FATAL ERROR!”

Andrew Roberts on Edgar Lustgarten, British broadcaster, noted crime writer - and The King of Merton Park Studios

THE WAR LORD

CHUCKS NORMAN CONQUEST