On The Newstands - 11 / 12 April

Apologies about the absence of yesterday's post  - I was going to feature a Turkish magazine cover of Joan called Hayat from 1959, but having spent all morning going through storage crates, I couldn't locate it and believe it is still in a large crate of magazines I have at my parents home.  Will check and hopefully feature it as a post very soon.


As I do not have a magazine for today in the archives, I am featuring one that would have been on sale for the month of April.

  Eros, an American men's magazine featured this lovely shot of Joan on their cover of the April 1983 issue.  Not surprising it sold like hotcakes.

 

On The Newstand - 19 February 1983

Today's magazine comes from Australia called TV Radio Extra. This publication, like many other countries featured Joan on their covers several times, I have 6 different issues from 1983-1987 in the archives which will be posted on their respective dates.

A pocket size TV and Radio guide, inside this issue was a 1 page article, "Enter Superbitch" as Joan made her famous entrance in Dynasty (shown later in Australia.

On The Newstands ....

It's another German magazine that comes under the spotlight for today's Newstand feature, this one is from 10th March 1983 and called Praline.
Inside is a small 1/4 page article about her divorce from Ron Kass.

Joan has featured on a number of German magazines over the years, and I will be featuring more in future posts.

On The Newstand ..... March 1983

Today's magazine is an American one, called Daytimers and Real Life dated March 1983 (the year I started collecting Joan memorabilia). This is a great full cover shot of Joan and inside is a 6 page article "Joan Collins, The star of Dynasty speaks frankly about her show biz childhood, her daughter's illness and nasty Alexis Carrington!.

JConthecover: TV Week (1983)

This Australian magazine from October 1983, features Joan on the cover with her co-star Jon-Erik Hexum and 3 other models from the TV movie, "The Making of A Male Model" or "The Look" which was it's title in the USA.
Inside the magazine is a 1 page article, "Joan And Those Young Men"

In the movie Joan plays a successful modelling agent, Kay Dillon who signs up a country boy for her agency.

I have some more photos from this movie to feature at a later date.

From 1983-1987 Joan appeared on the cover of this magazine another 12 times. I have all those magazines in my collection and will feature them in future posts.


The Death of Jon-Erik Hexum


On October 12th, 1984, he had been working on the set of a series called "Cover Up", during breaks in filming, he jokingly put a prop .44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger.
The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull.

He was rushed to hospital and underwent surgery, unfortunately the damage to his brain was already done and a week later (October 18), he was taken off life support and pronounced dead.

He was only 26 years old.

JConthecover: Oggi (1983)

Today's cover is from the Italian magazine Oggi, dated 1 June 1983, and a cover that Joan has appeared on countless times, many of which I have in my collection. This picture is from the film Nutcracker, which I am also featuring in today's post.

JConthecover: Beverly Hills [213] (1983)

They say that every collector has a favourite item amongst their collection, and this cover from November 30th 1983 is one of mine from all the magazines I have, with a French/Polish cover to be featured in a future post coming in second.

The cover epitomizes style and sophistication, the gown that Joan is wearing was the one she wore at the Carousel Ball, in Season 4 episode 11, it was then used on the first waxwork of Joan at Madame Tussards in London. A great cover all round, hopefully other fans will agree.

Check tomorrows post for what I think is quite a rarity cover of Joan !!