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At last - the return of The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL cover gallery, featuring issues #26-28. Just look at all these great images from the sizzling '70s, when we Brits were being treated to the best that Marvel had to offer from the swinging '60s - the best of both worlds in other words.
One day I really must get 'round to printing out these super little mini-posters and sticking them up on the walls. They looked great way back then and they still look great today. And, if you should have the same idea, well - don't let me stop you.
Don't forget to tune in again for the next instalment in this sensational series of covers and pin-ups from MWOM!
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Kid, this is some crazy stuff. having myself grown up with Marvel Comics from the 60's and 70's, it is truly strange to see the British versions of these things here. But then again, the English and Americans have been exchanging comic-book culture, along with everything else, for quite some time. Been to England once, as a soldier...hope to see it again.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're enjoying seeing these Marvel images from U.K. mags. They have their own unique charm, eh?
ReplyDeleteWhy not create a name for yourself if you don't want to use your own? Then I'd know when an 'anonymous' was a regular returnee.
More Marvel images soon.
Ah, that warm glow of nostalgia once more - though at the time I used to get annoyed at the laying on of Letratone all over the artwork.
ReplyDeleteIt also slightly irked me that I knew these were reprints of old stories, yet the editorial Powers-That-Be seemed to be trying to palm these off as new stories (though presumably they were just that to anyone who hadn't seen them before) - the way the Red Ghost became the Mad Ghost, the way they skipped the first Hulk'n'Jarella story, which consequently screwed up the continuity and flow in stories that came after.....was I being too precious about it?
cheers
B Smith
They did mention in the small print of the letters pages that the stories were reprints, B, but the presumption was that they'd be regarded as being 'new' to most readers, so they didn't go overboard in trying to disabuse them of the notion. (Therefore no 'Originally presented in..." captions on the splash pages.)
ReplyDeleteThey were aware that old-time, long-term fans would know they were reprints, so I wouldn't say they were trying to 'palm off' the stories as new - they just didn't want to spoil the element of 'current suspense' that new readers would have.
Yeah, and they did sometimes go overboard with that Letra-tone, eh? As for 'The Red/Mad Ghost' - I'd first encountered him as 'The Apemaster' in Wham!
that issue 27 cover with the watcher,I take it that its a Jim Starlin piece.
ReplyDeleteI have seen that pose on another cover,but it was not the watcher and I am sure it was Al Milgrom inked by Klaus Janson.
Just thinking out loud Kid,I am having a wee online break from working in my garden on this glorious Lanarkshire day.
It certainly has a Starlinesque touch to it, Baab, and I think it's by him - but it could always be Al Milgrom copying Starlin, I suppose. Nick Caputo would be bound to know for sure.
ReplyDeletei found what i was looking for.
ReplyDeletecaptain marvel 39.
Its not the same but the watcher must have a signature pose.
I was right about the artists though,and thanks to you I rediscovered a comic I had forgotten,I must have gave up on this comic soon after,but there it was in my box of memories.
http://whatevergodstherebe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-trial-of-watcher-wgtb-retrospective.html
'Comics Reunited' - that's me.
ReplyDeleteKid,
ReplyDeleteSince you rang:MWOM 26& 27 are Starlin covers; 26 inked by Esposito and 27 looks like an early Al Milgrom inking job. #28 is by Dick Ayers, although I'm not certain about the inker.
The most important question, though, is :did you figure the hundreds of ways you could use your Marvel mini-poster??
Thanks for the insight, Nick - if you don't know who it's by then nobody does.
ReplyDeleteOne day in the not-too-distant future (hopefully), I'm going to print out those mini-posters and stick them on my wall. Or I might use then as bookmarks. The possibilities are almost endless.
Can't recall what I did with them (if anything) back in the '70s 'though.