COR!! #1 - PART ONE...

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I can no longer recall if I actually bought the first issue of COR!! back in June of 1970, but I associate it with Rothesay & Port Bannatyne where my family were on holiday at the time.  I had seen the comic advertised on TV at home, but it's during that fortnight on the Isle of Bute that I see it in memory when I look back over 43 years into the past.  Part of the reason for that is seeing a kid reading a copy as we walked the streets of the little seaside town, and I may even have spied it on a newsagent's shelf at one point.  I remember wanting to buy it, but can no longer recollect if I ever got around to it or not.

However, it doesn't really matter a jot, as I recently acquired two copies of that first issue to replace the one I may or may not have had back in 1970.  But if I didn't have it, it can't really be regarded as a replacement then, can it?  True, but it's a replacement for the one I should've had, if indeed I didn't have it - if that makes any sort of sense.  (Maybe my brother bought it.)  But don't get tied up in knots trying to understand whatever nonsense I happen to be typing at the moment - instead, just take a look at the first instalment of the very first issue of Cor!!  Part two follows soon - don't miss it.

SPIDER-MAN COMICS WEEKLY COVER GALLERY - PART TWELVE...

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Time for another SPIDER-MAN COMICS WEEKLY instalment in our series of cover galleries, so here are a further eight issues to drool over, frantic ones!  Fewer pin-ups this time around, as by now they were only occasional fillers in the comic and not a regular weekly occurrence.  However, the covers are still nice and colourful, and really stood out on the shelves of newsagents' back in the last dying embers of 1974.  Come the New Year and I'd no longer be a schoolboy, but that's a tale for another time perhaps.  In the meantime, enjoy the images in this post - and don't forget to come back for the next part!