CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: THOR & X-MEN COVER GALLERY

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

THOR & X-MEN COVER GALLERY - PART ONE...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

I have a feeling that the X-MEN segment of the above cover was used before somewhere, but I know that the art on #22 was originally a cover on an issue of the mid-1970s weekly, The SUPER-HEROES. MARVEL UK certainly believed in re-cycling, that's for sure. Anyway, presented for your personal perusal, are the first ten issues of the merged The MIGHTY THOR And The X-MEN comic from the early '80s.

We'll be looking at the final ten issues in an upcoming post, but, in the meantime, if you have any recollections of these comics, feel free to share them with your fellow Criv-ites in the comments section.

8 comments:

baab said...: FIRELORD

I forgot about him,I liked him.; 19 February 2014 at 00:58
Kid said...: And he's got nothing but good to say about you, Baab.; 19 February 2014 at 01:18
Gey Blabby said...: Buscema's Firelord cover (the original, that is) was one of my favourites. Strange as it might seem, Firelord was the first herald of Galactus that I ever read about. I knew of the Surfer, of course, but I don't think his British reprints had started at the time I got the American Thor comic.; 19 February 2014 at 03:20
Kid said...: The Silver Surfer tales from his own mag appeared in The Super-Heroes in 1975/'76, but I'm not sure when The Galactus Trilogy was reprinted in MWOM - obviously before then, I would've thought. So, if you know when the original Thor mag was published, you can perhaps work it out from that.; 19 February 2014 at 04:09
John Pitt said...: Not really like two thirds of Fantastic with Thor being many years ahead of the X-Men but one of Marvel UK's finest weeklies all the same.; 20 February 2014 at 23:06
Kid said...: Perhaps not in content, but certainly in characters, JP. Shame they couldn't have kept it going longer.; 21 February 2014 at 00:13
Unknown said...: The Gil Kane cove (issue 79 US and issue 38 here) with the Cobalt Man fighting the X-Men was the first US X-Men comic I bought - its one of my favourite covers (and now on my desktop -so thanks for that) I bought the comic just for the cover, but thought the story was just and boring (at the time) it took me years before I picked up another X-Men comic or anything with them in it again - the next X-Men after that I picked up was issue 96 by Claremont/Cockrum that blew me away (hey I was only a 15 year old fanboy at the time) - Some really nice covers in that UK series.; 21 February 2014 at 10:38
Kid said...: Indeed, McScotty, some of the covers were very impressive. I first read the Cobalt man story in Fantastic, and again when it was reprinted in The Titans. Now I've got all the original X-Men stories in Masterworks and Omnibus volumes.; 21 February 2014 at 13:20

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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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.

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