CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: MIGHTY MARVEL COVER GALLERY

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

MIGHTY MARVEL COVER GALLERY - PART SEVEN...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Let's now return to the early days of 1973 and the glory that was The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL in all its multi-faceted magnificence. Just think - The INCREDIBLE HULK, The AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, and The FANTASTIC FOUR, to say nothing of pin-ups, puzzle pages and piles of powerhouse punch-ups, every week for a mere and measly 5 pence. Wow! We never had it so good!

It wouldn't (it couldn't) last, of course. As the weeks wore on, the colour pages dwindled in number, and before its first year was over, MWOM was quite dull looking in comparison to how it had started out. But that yet lies ahead of us; for the moment, let us savour the dynamic delights of Mighty Marvel Magic at its finest while we recall with nostalgic affection the best years of our lives so very long ago!

Onward!

2 comments:

baab said...: all of those FOOM ads got me thinking,"Why did I not purchase membership?"

I used to get fifteen pence for my pocket money on a saturday.
I would purchase two comics and a packet of POLO mints.

I could not afford it.
I did get more money while on holiday,which every year was a caravan in Kinghorn,near Burntisland.
The caravan site had a shop and they regularly stocked the treasury editions,which were 50p,So I must have had more pocket money on holiday in order to buy those.; 28 February 2013 at 11:59
Kid said...: It's not too late, Baab - now you can track them down on ebay and catch up on what you missed out on.

They will, of course, cost you quite a bit more than 50p 'though. Still, it's only money that your kids will waste when you're dead if you don't spend it first.; 28 February 2013 at 12:39

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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