{"id":4276,"date":"2016-07-11T06:54:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T06:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2016-07-11T06:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T06:56:50","slug":"zany-afternoons-and-a-cover-thats-still-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2016\/07\/11\/zany-afternoons-and-a-cover-thats-still-a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zany Afternoons&#8217; and a cover that&#8217;s still a mystery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Randomly &#8216;Googling&#8217; PAN covers, as you do, I came across <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2016\/ZanyAfternoons.htm\">&#8216;Zany Afternoons&#8217; <\/a><\/span>by Bruce McCall which was published as a Picador in 1983. It features drawings by McCall that appeared in the early 70&#8217;s in magazines such as New Times, Oui, National Lampoon, Crawdaddy and Playboy. I was forced to research this last title and managed to pick up a couple of editions from 1971 for a remarkably cheap price. I&#8217;ve put a couple of scans on the page. I hurriedly skipped past the pages of semi-naked ladies (typing difficult with fingers crossed behind my back) but lingered over the dozens of adverts\u00a0for\u00a08 track tape players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Zany9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4279 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Zany9-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Zany9\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Zany9-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Zany9-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Zany9-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Zany9.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A while ago I put on a cover and wondered if anyone recognised it as it was vaguely familiar. Well I&#8217;ve found where I&#8217;d seen it before but I don&#8217;t think it is right. The artwork is shown in an advert for the launch of\u00a0a familiar book but I&#8217;ve never seen it in real life. Maybe a mock up using recycled artwork?\u00a0 The advert is for sale\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/uk\/listing\/252664263\/1970s-vintage-advert-for-pan-books?ga_order=most_relevant&amp;ga_search_type=all&amp;ga_view_type=gallery&amp;ga_search_query=pan advert&amp;ref=sr_gallery_12\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/span> If anyone is interested in a single page ripped out of a publication for only &#8230;&#8230; have a look and see optimism.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HH3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HH3-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"HH3\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HH3-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HH3-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HH3.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>UPDATE May have tracked down the artist, hopefully more next week.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randomly &#8216;Googling&#8217; PAN covers, as you do, I came across &#8216;Zany Afternoons&#8217; by Bruce McCall which was published as a Picador in 1983. It features drawings by McCall that appeared in the early 70&#8217;s in magazines such as New Times, Oui, National Lampoon, Crawdaddy and Playboy. I was forced to research this last title and [&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\/4276"}],"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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}