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Looking back at these 40 year-old issues of The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL today, I have conflicting emotions about them. On the one hand, it's comforting to immerse myself in the familiar - although, on the other, I can't help but be appalled by the quality of the reproduction and wonder why the title managed to last for as long as it did.
True, when the comic first started, it had pages of spot-colour and full-colour which added something extra to to the mix and gave it a certain magic; however, before it was even a year old, the colour (apart from on the covers) had been replaced by a muddy grey Zipatone (or Letratone as we Britishers know it) and the classic artwork of early Marvel masterpieces was seriously compromised by the less than clear reproduction.
However, it's good to gaze wistfully through that window into the past and relive memories of my early teenage days. Each image has its own association, still burned into my brain even after all those many years, and just one glance returns me to a moment in time that I sometimes wish I'd never had to leave. I'm sure it's the same for you if you're around my age and had these comics back in the early '70s. Hopefully you're at least half as pleased to see them again as I am.
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| Nope, I dunno why The Hulk has blue teeth. It was printed that way - honest! |
