“Klinger: I've got an uncle in Chicago.
Hawkeye: Would he do you a favor?
Klinger: Are you kidding? He'd kill for me. He'd kill for you. For $100, he'd kill for anyone.”
Hawkeye: Would he do you a favor?
Klinger: Are you kidding? He'd kill for me. He'd kill for you. For $100, he'd kill for anyone.”
- from M*A*S*H episode “Adam’s Ribs”, 11/26/1974
It’s time to turn another page on the calendar, and travel back 50 years to November of 1974, where we’ll encounter “Killer Queen”, “Earthquake” and Clint Longley’s 15 minutes of Thanksgiving Day fame… while on the spinner racks, DC served up a double helping of Aparo Batman and a rare team-up of DC heroines!
News of the Month:
2nd - In an exhibition at Korakuen Stadium in Japan, U.S. and world career home run leader Hank Aaron and Japan's career home run leader Sadaharu Oh compete against each other in a "home run derby". Aaron narrowly defeatd Oh, 10 runs to 9
5th - Former NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, is elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time
6th – U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon concedes in a press conference that the United States economy is in a recession as stock prices continue to fall
11th - Operatic soprano Maria Callas makes her final public appearance in Sapporo, Japan
13th - Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, becomes the first representative of an entity other than a member state to address the UN General Assembly,
15th - Universal Pictures releases the disaster film Earthquake, which is the first film to use the "Sensurround" system during screenings.
18th - "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" album by English progressive rock band Genesis is released, their last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel
20th - The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
24th - Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev agree to a framework for the SALT-II treaty to reduce each side's number of nuclear weapons, at the Vladivostok Summit
24th - The remains of "Lucy", a female hominid from the species Australopithecus afarensis, are discovered in Ethiopia by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson
28th - Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for two years because of his Federal conviction for illegal contributions to political campaigns
28th - John Lennon's last concert appearance, as a guest of Elton John, Madison Square Garden, New York City NYC; they perform "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"; "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"; and "I Saw Her Standing There"
Newsreel of the Month: Ford returns from Far East (November 25, 1974)
Magazine Cover of the Month: Gerald Ford (National Lampoon, November 1974)
Music of the Month: John Lennon scored his only #1 solo hit in the States in a collaboration with Elton John while Queen broke through with their first big single in the UK
US Top Singles:
1. Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T.Express
2. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
3. Tin Man - America
4. My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton
5. What Ever Gets You Through The Night - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Nuclear Band
UK Top Singles:
01. Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex
02. Killer Queen – Queen
03. Everything I Own - Ken Boothe
04. (Hey There) Lonely Girl - Eddie Holman
05. All Of Me Loves All Of You - Bay City Rollers
Movie of the Month: “Earthquake” starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner & George Kennedy (premiered November 15, 1974)
TV Clips of the Month:
Maggie Smith plays a Hollywood star returning to her hometown on the Carol Burnett Show (first aired November 23, 1974)
Hawkeye loses his cool when the mess tent keeps serving the same food over and over again in the M*A*S*H episode “Adam’s Ribs” (first aired November 26, 1974)
Sports Moment of the Month: In one of the most memorable Thanksgiving Day football games of all time, Clint Longley comes off the bench and leads the Dallas Cowboys to an improbable comeback win over the Redskins (November 28, 1974)
Top 10 DC Comics of the Month (as selected by Osgood Peabody, listed in order of their publication):
Our Army At War #277: Bulldozer has flashbacks to pre-war Chicago when was a member of the “Gashouse Gang” (Cover by Joe Kubert)
Rima, the Jungle Girl #6: Rima tries to protect the white jaguar from a gang of vicious hunters in “Safari of Death”! (Cover by Joe Kubert)
Kamandi #26: Kamandi encounters a new cast of characters while exploring the Dominion of the Devils in “The Heights of Abraham”! (Cover by Jack Kirby & D. Bruce Berry)
Wonder Woman #216: What would actually happen if a man set foot on Paradise Island? Come along with Black Canary to learn the secret in “Paradise in Peril”! (Cover by Nick Cardy)
Brave & the Bold #117: A man from Sgt. Rock’s past comes back to haunt him while Batman travels to Europe to help him in “Nightmare Without End”! (Cover by Jim Aparo)
Our Fighting Forces #153: The Losers are assigned to smoke out the Nazi’s new secret weapon in “Big Max”! (Cover by Jack Kirby & D. Bruce Berry)
Superman #284: The Man of Steel returns to his boyhood home to unravel the riddle behind “The Secret Guardian of Smallville”! (Cover by Nick Cardy)
Action Comics #444: A master villain has sent deadly assassins to Earth in “Beware the Hero-Killers”, plus Green Arrow gets the shocking news that “The Black Canary is Dead”! (Cover by Nick Cardy)
Detective Comics #445: Chapter Two of the “Bat-Murderer” serial unfolds as the Masked Manhunter attempts to contact Ra’s Al Ghul in “Break-In at the Big House”! (Cover by Jim Aparo)
Tarzan #235: The Ape Man is drawn into a strange jungle realm in “The Magic Herb”! (Cover by Joe Kubert)
You can find all DC comics published this month right here courtesy of Mike Voiles’ Time Machine!
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