IF YOU ONLY BUY ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS ONE...

Image copyright MARVEL COMICS

This is the book that ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS should've been.  Are you ready for this?  The first appearances or/and first issues of The RAWHIDE KID, DOCTOR DROOM, The FANTASTIC FOUR, ANT-MAN, The INCREDIBLE HULK, SPIDER-MAN, THOR, HUMAN TORCH, TWO-GUN KID, IRON MAN, SGT. FURY & His HOWLING COMMANDOS, DOCTOR STRANGE, The AVENGERS, The X-MEN, DAREDEVIL, NICK FURY AGENT Of S.H.I.E.L.D., GHOST RIDER, CAPTAIN MARVEL, CAPTAIN SAVAGE & His LEATHERNECK RAIDERS, SILVER SURFER, and more, more, MORE!!! 

This terrifically titanic tome also contains the dynamic debuts of The WASP, The WATCHER, CAPTAIN AMERICA, and SUB-MARINER in their own sensational series; KA-ZAR, and DOCTOR DOOM in their initial solo stories, plus covers galore, and even more, more, MORE!!!

All in full colour, this is the one book that no dyed-in-the-wool Marvel fan can afford to be without.  This softcover, 488 page masterpiece contains, in the main, the finest and most accurate printings of these tales since they were first released back in the '60s.  Definitely no shoddy 'restoration' work that some first printings of the MASTERWORKS series suffered from.  An absolute bargain, and the book to have this Christmas.  But don't wait - buy it today.

ISBN #978-0-7851-5864-6

SUPERMAN BREAKS LOOSE...

Built and painted by Kid Robson

For no other reason than I'm extremely proud of it, I'd thought I'd share another photo of my AURORA SUPERMAN kit from 1974.  I assembled and painted it myself, hand-painting the 'S' emblems on the costume and cape, rather than using the adhesive labels supplied.  This second release of the famous hobby kit was issued without the nameplate of the original '64 version (as were all subsequent releases), but I added a spare one as I think the model looks better with it.

This kit has been released five times over the years, and I have them all, plus an unbuilt and boxed spare of the original version.  Here are the dates and companies involved:

1964 by Aurora. * 1974 by Aurora. * 1978 by Monogram. * 1984 by MPC. * 1999 by Revell.

As I said, only the 1964 kit included a nameplate (and had moulded 'S' emblems), and the '84 and '99 kits had a different head.

Perhaps MOEBIUS Models will re-release the original kit sometime soon.