"Very important.... Fresh insights.... This is the most detailed — and most enjoyable — book available on Lucille Ball. A must-have." — Laura Wagner, Classic Images
"This new fourth edition is a wonderful read, and I'm pleased to recommend it to everyone." — Wanda Clark, Lucille Ball's personal secretary
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Lucy as drawn by the great Jack Davis (one of many times he caricatured her, often for MAD magazine) circa the early 1970s. It's one of many exclusive photos you'll only see here. A good place to start looking is my Lucy Photo Album.
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SPOTLIGHT: FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING LIKE…LUCY?!
Back in 1978 — when almost anything still seemed possible — Muhammad Ali had not yet retired; the heavyweight champ and the film Rocky (1976) had made the sport of boxing more popular than ever. But what would happen if the strongest earthling (Ali) met the strongest alien who lived on our planet…Superman? DC Comics took the idea and ran with it in a unique oversize (they called it “treasury-sized”) special issue: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali: The Fight to Save Earth from Star-Warriors. It sold for $2.50 and was 72 pages, depicting the man from Krypton teaming up with Ali to battle an alien invasion of Earth. Dennis O'Neil wrote the original story, and it was adapted by Neal Adams — who also did the pencils for the special cover (which spread across the back cover and the cover itself; see picture). Dick Giordano (figures) and Terry Austin (backgrounds) did the inking. Yours truly, a Superman comic collector since the early 1960s, bought a copy when it was released. But this was also one of those rare occasions when two of my favorite interests collided: the cover featured drawings of all the top celebrities (political and otherwise, fictional and fact) of the day watching a bout between Ali and Supes, including a certain redhead we all love. There’s Lucy, right beside Batman’s right ear at bottom center of the front cover (I’ve enlarged Lucy at the center of the pic so you can get a better look). Though I kept the cover to pin up in various apartments, I got rid of the rest of the book. But it appears we’ll all have a chance to pick it up again. According to comicbookresources.com, DC will reprint the classic cover this fall in two versions: one that presents the original comic as it was first published, except in hardcover this time, plus a new hardcover edition “featuring a new Adams cover and additional sketch material dating back to the original book's publication.” Though there’s no word on whether Lucy and the other 1978 celebs will appear on the new cover, I’ll keep you posted once I purchase it. (And this time, I’ll keep the whole book!)

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Circa 1966-'68, Edward Stevenson sketched our redhead in these sleek, black velvet pajamas with a beaded (or sequined) top. The pants were flared, and the top featured fringe trim on the sleeves and bottom hem. The embroidery on the top is likely black bugle beads. From the Special Collections Dept. at Idaho State University.
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