{"id":3675,"date":"2016-01-25T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2016-01-25T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T08:07:04","slug":"a-couple-of-misses-with-the-last-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2016\/01\/25\/a-couple-of-misses-with-the-last-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Misses with &#8216;The Last Enemy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now\u00a0I know I must miss lots of things PAN related but it&#8217;s nice to find a couple when it&#8217;s not too late thanks to a reader for one and a lucky Google search from me for the other but weirdly both sort of linked.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Just before Christmas I got a letter from fellow PAN fan, Jeremy Birch, asking if I had spotted the article in &#8216;The Times&#8217; from 6th August 2015 regarding Denise Maxwell Woosnam who was the D M W referred to on Page 4 in the first two PAN editions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Blog\/Adventure\/LastEnemy.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Last Enemy&#8217;<\/span> <\/a>by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/RichardHopeHillary.jpg\">Richard Hillary<\/a><\/span>?\u00a0My &#8216;Times&#8217; spotter had let me down on this but luckily Jem sent me a copy of the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TimesLastEemy.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">article<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Spitfire.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Spitfire-300x85.jpg\" alt=\"Spitfire\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Spitfire-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Spitfire.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As you can see I\u00a0have found five different editions published by PAN from 1956 to 1976 in the UK while in the States it was published by Dell as &#8216;Falling Through Space&#8217; in 1958.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Medal.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Medal-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"Medal\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Medal-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Medal.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The second miss was on eBay where all my saved searches let me down and I missed a copy of the PAN catalogue from September 1969 which featured on the cover titles from the &#8216;Battle of Britain&#8217; series of which &#8216;The Last Enemy was&#8217; one.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Battle.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Battle-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Battle\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Battle-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Battle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Battle-768x762.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Battle-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Battle.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;The Last Enemy&#8217; is the book in the middle bottom row of the display stand and if\u00a0 d***o ever wants to sell, you know where to find me! It was a bargain as they were the\u00a0only bidder\u00a0so\u00a0it went for \u00a35<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And just to show I wasn&#8217;t immediately jumping on the Bowie bandwagon last week here is &#8216;The Man Who Fell to Earth&#8217; by Walter Tevis from 1976. Actually it was because I haven&#8217;t been able to find my copy so until I do here&#8217;s one from the net.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bowie.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bowie-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bowie\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bowie-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bowie.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now\u00a0I know I must miss lots of things PAN related but it&#8217;s nice to find a couple when it&#8217;s not too late thanks to a reader for one and a lucky Google search from me for the other but weirdly both sort of linked. Just before Christmas I got a letter from fellow PAN fan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}