PART SEVEN Of FOOM COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Well, here we go with yet another whistle-stop-tour through a couple of issues of FOOM - this time #s 15 & 16, the latter of which features an interview with Mirthful MARIE SEVERIN, sister of JOHN and power-packed penciller, inker, and colourist in her own right.

As you can see, there's not a lot of images from #15, but, truth to tell, some later issues of MARVEL's Magazine for fans don't really have too much that's worth posting (in my opinion), so it's going to be a bit of a mixed bag, contents-wise, in future instalments of this series.

However, as there are only 6 issues to go before you've seen all 22 mags anyway, I'm sure we'll find something of interest to make up a post or three.  Keep watching or you might miss something!

  

The DEMON COVER GALLERY - PART ONE...

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I never had too many issues of The DEMON when it was originally published back in the '70s.  I remember buying the first one from a newsagent's in the old village quarter of my town, and I may have had a few of the later mags, but I never had the complete run.  In fact, as far as original issues go, I still don't - though I do have the collected edition that DC COMICS issued a few years back.

However, I've also got the first five original comics, acquired many years ago from some forgotten source or other.  (At least, I'm not sure where I bought my replacement of #1, but I think I got #s 2-5 from the late PETE ROOT's place in Glasgow, when he rented space in a comics shop in Buchanan Street.)  So these five covers are from the actual comics - and, depending on whether I can scan from the book without cracking the spine, any future covers in the series will be from the collected edition.

In the meantime, let's just enjoy some atmospheric JACK KIRBY cover art, from a time when his sojourn at DC hadn't yet soured.

TREASURES REUNITED...

Here's a question for you:  If, on a visit home to your parents one day, they opened a cupboard and showed you every toy and comic you'd ever owned as a child right up to your teenage years, and said:  "We thought we'd keep them to remind us of when you were young - and just in case you should ever want them!", what would your response be?

Would you be delighted at being reunited with all your childhood treasures; would you pick out one or two items and tell them to give the rest to the local charity shop - or would you grab everything and sell it all on eBay?  And, if the latter, would you split the profits with your parents or keep all the dosh for yourself?

Spill all in the comments section - honest injun now, no porkies.

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If you're parents are no longer around, just imagine you found a letter from them, revealing where all your goodies from childhood were safely stored.  Obviously splitting the cash wouldn't apply in that scenario, but what would matter most to you - the financial or the nostalgic aspect of your wondrous windfall?