June 22



JUNE 22

Teens Weekly Taon 14 Blg. 723, Hunyo 22, 1984
Tampok sa taklob-pahina ang obrang “Mga Buhay na Manyika” na isinulat ni Elena M. Patron
na iginuhit ni Nestor Malgapo.

UNANG LABAS

Ang teen-oriented magazine na Sixteen ay unang lumabas noong June 22, 1968. Ang magazine ay halos kasinglaki lamang ng mga ordinaryong komiks at naglalaman din ng mga komiks series kabilang ang mga likha nina Mars Ravelo, Jim Fernandez, Carlo J. Caparas at Orlandro R. Nadres. Nagtampok din ito ng mga featured articles, columns, mga hit songs, at maiinit na balita sa showbiz at tungkol sa mga sikat na personalidad ng naturang panahon. Si Mars Ravelo ang nakaisip ng konsepto ng magazine at si Nadres naman ang naging unang editor nito. Inilimbag ito ng Pilipino Komiks Incorporated na sa simula ay Pilipino ang lengguwaheng ginamit. Makalipas ang ilang buwan, naging “Taglish” na ang medium of presentation nito, at nang lumaon, maliban sa mga illustrated stories na nasusulat pa rin sa wikang Pilipino, naging English na ang lengguwaheng ginamit sa mga artikulo sa magazine. Noong huling bahagi ng 1968, ang Atlas Publications Inc. na ang nagpatuloy ng paglilimbag nito.

Ang spread-out cover ng unang labas ng Sixteen Magazine, June 22, 1968,

na nagtatampok sa American rock band na The Raiders.

Naging popular na babasahin ang Sixteen na sinubaybayan ng mga campus teenagers, lalo na ng mga kababaihan. Subalit ang mga mag-aaral ng high school at college ay yumaon at nagtapos, naging mga professionals at nagkaroon ng pamilya, at dito sumabay sa pagbabago ang Sixteen. Noong March 1974 naging Sixteen MOD Filipina ang pamagat ng magazine. Makalipas ang siyam na buwan, naging kasing-laki ito ng 11”x13” tabloid. Noon namang October 10, 1975, naging MOD Filipina na ang titulo nito at naging exclusive para sa mga kababaihan. Pagtungtong ng 1980s hanggang 1990s, naging bisexual ang tema ng mga artikulong nilalaman nito na bukod sa mga mag-aaral ay mga professionals at class AB readers ang target. Noong July 3, 1992, naging MOD na lamang ang titulo nito, at noong 2004 lumiit sa 9”x12” ang sukat nito. Sumunod ay inililimbag ang MOD sa coupon-bond size.

Events that happened on June 22:

1936 – Zamboanga (in Zamboanga del Sur) was declared a city by virtue of Republic Act No. 39.

1963 – Angeles (in Pampanga) and Dapitan (in Zamboanga del Norte) were declared cities by virtue of Republic Act Nos. 3700 and 3811 respectively.

Personalities and celebrities born on June 22:

1868 – Claro Caluya, poet and playwright – in Piddig, Ilocos Norte (d. December 14, 1914).

1920 – Jovito Reyes Salonga, lawyer, politician and 14th Senate President (July 27, 1987-December 21, 1992) – in Pasig City (d. March 10, 2016).

1922 – Mona Lisa (real name Gloria Lerma Yatco), beauty queen and award-winning actress – in Tondo, Manila.



Pia Zadora on the cover of Oui
June 1982 issue.

Larawang Tribiya

          Ang unang pelikulang nilabasan ng American-born Polish-Italian actress-singer na si Pia Zadora (tunay na pangalan Pia Alfreda Zadorowski Schipani) noong siya ay 10 taong gulang pa lamang ay ang Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) kung saan siya ay gumanap bilang isang batang Martian na nagngangalang Girmar.

          Noong 1982, lumabas siya sa kontrobersyal na pelikulang Butterfly na umiikot sa temang father-daughter incest. Sa pelikulang ito, kinanta niya ang “It’s Wrong for Me to Love You.” Napagwagian niya ang Golden Globe Award bilang “Best New Star of the Year,” manapa’y sa inpluensiya di-umano ng kaniyang milyonaryong asawang si Meshulam Riklis. Sa taon ding yaon si Zadora ang pinagkalooban ng Razzie Award para sa “Worst Actress.” Si Zadora ang kauna-unahang artista sa kasaysayan na nabigyan ng Golden Globe Award at Razzie Award para sa kaniyang pagganap sa iisang pelikula.

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June 10

 


JUNE 10

Tagalog Klasiks Taon 17 Blg. 454, Hunyo 10, 1968

Nasa taklob-pahina ang original Pinoy superhero ni Mars Ravelo na si “Flash Bomba”
na iginuhit ni Nestor Malgapo.

Events that happened on June 10:

1647 – A Dutch fleet under Admiral Cortezen that entered Manila Bay and attacked Cavite was repulsed by joint Filipino and Spanish forces.

1877 – The Philippines was admitted to the Berne Postal Treaty which greaty improve the country’s mailing service.

1969 – Batangas was declared a city by virtue of Republic Act No. 5495.

Personalities and celebrities born on June 10:

1864 – Crispulo Aguinaldo, revolutionary general and brother of Emilio Aguinaldo – in Kawit, Cavite (d. March 24, 1897).

1871 – Crispulo Zamora, pioneer engraver, Katipunero and revolutionary leader during the American Occupation – in Sampaloc, Manila (d. October 11, 1922).

1889 – Pedro Gatmaitan, Tagalog poet, editor and fictionist – in San Nicolas, Bulacan, Bulacan (d. June 10, 1965).

1903 – Jose Villa Panganiban, educator, poet, linguist, lexicographer, author and director of the Institute of National Language (1955-1968) – in Bautista, Pangasinan (d. October 13, 1972).

1935 – Danding Cojuangco (full name Eduardo Murphy Cojuangco), ambassador, politician and political leader – in Paniqui, Tarlac (d. June 16, 2020).

Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco with wife Gretchena

on the cover of People Asia (May 2003)

1965 – Joey Santiago (full name Joseph Alberto Santiago), Filipino-American guitarist and composer – in Manila.

1990 – Valeen Montenegro (full name Valeen Montenegro Vicente), actre ss.

Valeen Montenegro

on the cover of FHM Philippines (July 2015)



On the cover of Discover June 2011 issue
is an illustration by Ron Miller of the event
horizon of a black hole.

Picture Trivia

          The term “Black Hole” was coined by American theoretical Physicist John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008) in 1967 to describe the awesome cosmic phenomenon. The existence of a black hole was first predicted by Albert Einstein (1879-1955) in his “Theory of Gravity (General Relativity) in 1915, although the concept of the supermassive body was first put forward by the English geologist John Michell (1724-1793) in 1784.

          Theoretically, a black hole forms when a very massive star runs out of fuel. Without energy to support its mass, the star implodes. If the star is more than 25 times the mass of our sun, the core will collapse to a point of infinite density with no surface. Within a boundary of about 50 miles from the black hole center, gravity is so strong that not even light can escape its pull. This boundary is theoretically known as the event horizon.

          Until recently, black holes have remained hidden beneath invisibility cloaks. Indeed. Whereas a lot has been known about the existence and properties of black holes from Einstein’s theory of general relativity, tangible evidence has been a recent phenomenon.

          According to astronomers, black holes exist in at least two different sizes. Stellar black holes, formed from the death and gravitational collapse of a massive star, is about ten to 20 times the mass of our sun. Dwarfing the stellar type, supermassive black holes hold millions to billions the mass of our Sun, and lurk at the centers of many galaxies.

          Indirect evidence from X-ray telescopes has revealed telltale signs of thousands of black holes lurking in our own galaxy and beyond. Many are the remnants of exploded stars. But to other far more massive black holes, swallowing a single star is like a blue whale gulping a mosquito.

          It is believed that super-massive black holes are located at the core of every galaxy. According to Suvi Gezari of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Milky Way galaxy in which our solar system resides has a dormant super-massive black hole at its center. They can have the mass of a trillion suns squeezed into an area the size of our solar system. Smaller stellar black holes can lurk throughout a galaxy. Middleweight black holes, discovered in 1999, range from 100 to 10,000 suns in mass but are no bigger than our moon.

          Over thousands of years, black holes grow bigger by consuming material whizzing around them. Just before gas and dust get sucked into a black hole, this matter heats up so much that it emits streams of x-rays. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes equipped with x-ray vision spot the distant lights.

          That’s how astronomers pinpointed the first black hole, called Cygnus X-1, in 1971. Since then, thousands of black holes have been spotted, bringing to light answers to many questions. In 2001, observations of Cygnus X-1, roughly 6,000 light-years away, provided the first glimpse of material actually falling into a black hole.

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April 14

April 14

Tagalog Klasiks Blg. 177, Abril 14, 1956
Tampok sa taklob-pahina ang obrang “Dalagang Biyuda”
Na isinulat ni Rico Bello Omagap at iginuhit ni Jim Fernandez

 

The first issue of Movie Fan (Philippines),
April 1957, with Barbara Perez on the cover
 

FIRST ISSUE

In April 1957 the first issue of a monthly magazine in the Philippines with a title of Movie Fan came off the press. It contained news, stories and articles about movie stars in particular and the film industry in general. Actress Barbara Perez was its first cover girl.

The magazine Celebrity World, on the other hand, is a weekly publication of Mass Media Publishing Corporation. It contained articles about showbiz, lifestyle, art and culture, both on the local and international scene. Its first editor-in-chief and editor are Eliseo C. Taparan and Leonila R. Garcia respectively. The magazine was an offshoot of Movie Fan that underwent a facelift and broadened the scope of its contents.

The first issue that contained the title “Celebrity World” on its cover (although the logo and name Movie Fan was still included) appeared on February 17, 1994 for which Kris Aquino was the cover girl. The transition period continued up to the April 7, 1994 issue (Kristine del Rosario on the cover). The superscript “Movie Fan” was finally removed on the April 14, 1994 issue (Ina Raymundo on the cover). This is the legitimate first issue of Celebrity World.

On the left, the last issue of the Movie Fan-superscripted Celebrity World (April 7, 1994)
and, on the right, the legitimate first issue of Celebrity World (April 14, 1994).

UNANG LABAS

Si Flash Bomba ay orihinal na fictional superhero na katha ni Mars Ravelo at ay unang iginuhit ni Jim Fernandez at pagkatapos ay ni Nestor Malgapo. Una itong lumabas sa Tagalog Klasiks noong Abril 14, 1967.

Matapos likhain ni Mars Ravelo ang mga komiks character na Darna, Captain Barbell, Lastikman, Dyesebel, Bodying, Goro at Booma, naisip niyang lumikha naman ng isang higit na kakaibang obra, isang tinagurian niyang “fantastic character” na “pambihira at espesyal” na tinitiyak niyang kagigiliwan ng mambabasa.

Sa kaliwa, isang pahina sa unang labas ng “Flash Bomba”

(Tagalog Klasiks Blg. 424, Hunyo 14, 1967)

na iginuhit ni Jim Fernandez.
Sa kanan, ang taklob-pahina ng Tagalog Klasiks Blg. 454, Hunyo 10, 1968,
na nagtampok kay “Flash Bomba” na iginuhit ni Nestor Malgapo.

Ang pangunahing tauhan ng kuwento ay si Roldan na bagama’t anak-mayaman ay isang lumpo dahil sa sakit na polio. Itinaya niya sa pakikipagsapalaran ang kaniyang buhay upang makakuha ng tatlong ginintuang buhok ng tikbalang upang mabago ang kaniyang kapalaran at matupad ang pangarap na maging isang crime fighter. Nagtagumpay siya at kalakip ng kapangyarihang taglay ng mga ginintuang buhok, nagawa niyang magbagong-anyo bilang Flash Bomba. Sa kaanyuan ni Flash Bomba, lumaki ang kaniyang mga palad at mga paa at nakalalakad siya kahit sa gilid ng mga pader. Bukod dito, natatawag niya ang isang kawan ng kabayong bundok at ang tikbalang sa sandaling kailanganin niya ang tulong ng mga ito.

Events that happened on April 14:

1617 – The Spanish fleet led by Juan Ronquillo defeated the Dutch fleet led by Admiral John Derickson in the Second Battle of Playa Honda off the coast of Zambales, averting another Dutch attack on the Philippines.

1898 – General Arcadio Maxilom, who took over command of the Katipuneros in Cebu after the assassination of Leon Kilat, successfully defeated the Spanish forces and captured the Tuburan town.

1947 – The first issue of Bulaklak (Hiyas ng Tahanan) was released by the Social & Commercial Press owned by Beatriz M. de Guballa.

1980 – The KADIWA Program, a brainchild project of then First Lady Imelda Marcos where low-income households can buy commodities five to 30 percent cheaper direct from the producers, was inaugurated at the Food Terminal Incorporated (FTI) Complex in Taguig.

Personalities and celebrities born on April 14:

1935 – Rodolfo Gaspar Biazon, AFP chief of staff, government official and lawmaker – in Batac City, Ilocos Norte.

1980 – Cheska Garcia (real name Francesca Marie Velasco Garcia), actress, model and television host – in Dagupan, Pangasinan.

Cheska Garcia (with her name spelled as Chesca)

on the covers of UNO (April 2005) and FHM Philippines (April 2006).

 

 

Jessica Alba on the cover of GQ (April 2005).

Picture Trivia

          Do you know that the beautiful and sexy actress Jessica Alba was asthmatic as a child? The portrayer of Susan Storm (a.k.a. the Invisible Woman) in the films Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) overcome her weakness through the guidance of her mother, who taught her to swim and dive underwater before she was able to learn to walk. Alba soon became a PADI-certified scuba diver at a very young age, and starred as Maya Graham (1995-1997) in the television series Flipper. She started to be known when she was chosen (out of 1,200 who auditioned) to portray the character Max Guevarra, a genetically-engineered super-soldier in the TV series Dark Angel. Here, she won the 2001 Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress and Saturn Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Golden Globe.

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