LOOK-ALIKES ON THE COVERS

        Browsing through hundreds, no thousands, of magazine covers, I found similarities of how the covers were presented, the angles, the features, and of course the persons on the cover. Yes, the persons on the covers that seemingly the mirror image of another – look-alikes.

        Since my high school days, I ostensibly developed some kind of mental retentivity. Recalling things that I have seen is a part of this. Using this ability, I tried collecting the images of magazine covers with similar features. Believe me, there are many.

          Here’s a MOD “close encounter,” Miriam Quiambao on the left and Raquel Mababangloob on the right. Sans the eye shadow, the analogy is uncanny.

Miriam Quiambao on the cover of MOD (June 4, 1999)
and Raquel Mababangloob on the cover of MOD Filipina (August 18, 1989)

 

          The magazine Prime Editions (later Prime Weekly Edition) had a lot of cover girls that can be considered doppelgangers. Take a look at the succeeding covers and wonder.

Janice de Belen on the cover of Miscellaneous (December 1, 1987)
and Susan Calderon on the cover of Prime Editions (March 11, 1987) 



Laurice Guillen on the cover of Who? (September 30, 1978)
and Celine Aguado on the cover of Prime Editions (April 8, 1987)

 

Hilda Koronel on the cover of Expressweek (February 2, 1978)
and Shirley Velasquez on the cover of Prime Editions (April 23-29, 1987)

 

Ynez Veneracion on the cover of Sexy Movie Stars Komiks Magazine (November 11, 1997)
and Aurora Sta. Ana on the cover of Prime Weekly Edition (December 17,1987)
 

 

Lorna Tolentino (with Rudy Fernandez) on the cover of Parade (September 1, 1982)
and Janice Gonzalez on the cover of Prime Weekly Editions (December 31, 1987)

 

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April 8

 

April 8

Prime Editions Vol. 2 No. 12, April 8, 1987
On the cover: Celine Mercedes Montalban Aguado

 

UNANG LABAS

Ang “Kabalyerong Itim” ay nobelang isinulat ni Rino Bermudez at iginuhit ni Federico Javinal na nagsimulang lumabas sa mga pahina ng Mabuhay Komiks noong Abril 8, 1952. Ang pamagat ng nobela ay hiram mula sa mga maalamat na kuwento tungkol kay King Arthur na lumaganap noong ika-12 siglo. Datapuwa’t naiiba ang nilalaman ng kuwento. Nauna pang nailabas ang likhang ito ni Bermudez sa Mabuhay Komiks at naisapelikula ng LVN Pictures kaysa sa pelikula ni Alan Ladd na The Black Knight (1954). Sa pelikula, sina Rogelio dela Rosa at Tessie Quintana ang nagbida sa ilalim ng direksyon ni Bermudez.

Dalawang isyu ng Mabuhay Komiks, Blg. 16 (Abril 8, 1952) at Blg. 22 (Hulyo 1, 1952),
na nagtatampok sa likha ni Rino Bermudez na “Kabalyerong Itim”

na iginuhit ni Federico Javinal.

 

Events that happened on April 8

1942 – United States general Edward P. King decided to surrender Bataan to the Japanese.

Personalities and celebrities born on April 8:

1961 – Rosemarie de Vera (full name Maria Rosario de Vera), actress – In Quezon City.





Picture of a young Elizabeth Taylor
on the cover ofThe Hollywood Reporter (April 8, 2011),
published as a tribute barely two weeks after her death.

Picture Trivia

          Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) won the Academy Best Award awards twice, for the films Battlefield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Do you know that she also received many international citations in different fields? Two among these are the French Legion of Honor (1987) and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2000). In 2001, because of Taylor’s humanitarian works, especially in soliciting 200-million-dollar funds for research on AIDS and in propagating international awareness about the disease, she was given a Presidential Citizens Medal.

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