CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: THE MIGHTY MARVEL COVER GALLERY

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

THE MIGHTY MARVEL COVER GALLERY - PART NINE...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

HOORAY! Rejoice - The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL cover & image gallery is back! A Baker's dozen of pulsating pages from the early months of Marvel's very first 'official' entry into the British comics market. Just looking at these pages transports me back in time to the dazzling days of the 1970s faster than QUICKSILVER can burp. If you were around at the time and buying MWOM, then I'm sure it'll be the same for you.

So cast off the shackles of current-day concerns and submit yourselves to the intoxicating pull of the past and all of its pleasures. Relive the heady days of your youth once more and pretend you're a lad again with eternity ahead of you, when the only passports required for entry into a wonderland of awesome action, adventure, escapism and excitement were the three magical words - "MAKE MINE MARVEL!"

2 comments:

Steve Does Comics said...: I used to have that Hulk mini-poster on my bedside table. To this day, I remember it with fondness.; 27 March 2013 at 19:06
Kid said...: And now you have it again. Steve. Print it out and stick it on a bit of card. If you still have the bedside table, you can reunite them. I love a happy ending.; 27 March 2013 at 19:16

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.

Copyright Notice:

Images remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are used here only for the purpose of review, promotion, and nostalgia.

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In the case of images culled from my own collection where copyright of an item isn't mine, I impose no copying restrictions on fellow bloggers.

(Although, if you don't allow copying on your own site, then you really shouldn't be copying from others, should you?)

And while you can credit this blog if you like, it's not mandatory. Who has time to make notes of every casually visited site during an idle browse of the Internet?

In the case of anyone copying images of my own artwork and calligraphy, I affirm my right to be identified as the creator, and any such copying should not be for the purpose of monetary or material gain. (Unless it's mine.)

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