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careful step by careful step we map the way through climbing curling greenery brushing by bikes past faithful kitty heel to toe

heel to toe curving round hard right padding down perfect tar under the rolling clouds heel to toe

heel to toe dodging crowds carefully find gaps at the bus stop that liminal space winding through heel to toe

Action Force Datafile featuring Red Vulture, the Shadowtrak Driver from Battle Action Force, cover dated 21 April 1984.

Red Vulture was a Series Two action figure from 1983. Like his fellow Red Shadows he was a repaint of the Series One German Stormtrooper. As with the other Red Shadows his head was remolded so that he had a mask/armour covering his face. The main way to distinguish him from the other Red Shadows was that his gloves were black while the ordinary Red Shadow had red gloves. This didn't always happen though and sometimes he went on sale with red gloves.

The Shadowtrak was a repaint/retooling of the Series One AF5 Multi Mission vehicle.

Two-Gun Kid No. 134, dated December 1976. Cover by Jack Kirby. Remember the Alamo! was a reprint from Two-Gun Kid No. 75, dated May 1965 with an added explanation that it was a "What If...?" type story imagining the Kid had lived 40 years earlier.

The two differing text boxes at the beginning of the story below-

The image also appears as a Marvel Masterwork Pin-Up in Two-Gun Kid No. 128, dated February 1976.

Last Flight of Baron von Richthofen by John Young.

21 April 1918. The Sopwith Camel of Roy Brown in the foreground pursuing the Fokker Dr.I of Manfred von Richthofen who was in turn pursuing the Sopwith Camel flown by Wilfrid May.

Warlord No. 239, dated 21 April 1979 for 8p. 'Union Jack Jackson' cover by Jeff Bevan. Sergeant Lonnigan pictured holding what looks like my first mobile phone.