Do You Remember? The Very Last Post of September?

Yes, you yacht-rockers you, that's a play on lyrics from "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire, a favorite around here--all year, not just month-appropriate. Lately, my wife says to me every day, "Are we enjoying it?" Meaning, we look forward to the autumn and Christmas seasons all year, so we damn well better appreciate it now that we're in the midst of it. Not to mention we're not spring chickens anymore, so another of these seasons isn't exactly guaranteed. (We're definitely closer to fall chickens.)

Honestly, I'm not feeling overly inspired, but I don't want September to slip by without a post. I'm just gonna toss a few Fall Preview covers of the ol' Newsday TV Book on here and call it a day. If the year is a link (the first four, of the six in my collection), follow it to see more from that issue.

1972

1973

1974

1978

1981

1982 (recently acquired--just noticed I didn't even edit the photo! Whoopsy! Who cares-y?)

And finally, just because I already have it scanned and just now stumbled over it, here's a neat John Severin back cover for a Cracked fall special from 1980, signed with his middle name Powers.

Actually, here's one more: I scanned this peculiar ad from a 1976 issue of People when I was digging up Bicentennial stuff. So while I'm posting illustrations of spaced-out weirdos, here are some heavenly bodies wearing groovy threads from A. Smile Inc.

More fall-y foolishness coming, I swear!
This year!
Stay Tuned!