CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: MARVEL FLASHBACK COVER GALLERY

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

MARVEL FLASHBACK COVER GALLERY - PART ONE...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Back in July of 1997, MARVEL released a series of 'first' issues featuring untold tales relating to the origins of several of their most popular characters, in an event they called FLASHBACK month. HEROES REBORN titles (like IRON MAN & The FANTASTIC FOUR) weren't included, but those that were had a retro '60s look to the covers and letters page logos that was good to see again for long-time Marvelites who remembered how Marvel mags used to look.

Didn't get them all, but I got a fair number, so I thought I'd share the covers with you here. Part two is coming soon, so don't forget to look in again or you'll miss them.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: On the Wolverine cover Nick Fury has no eyepatch. Is that because part of the tale is set in his howlin' commandos days ?; 23 April 2014 at 18:41
Kid said...: To be honest, CJ, I dunno - haven't read most of them, not even the ones in part two.; 23 April 2014 at 22:17
John Pitt said...: First time I have ever seen these, I must say they all look interesting, being X-Men related.; 24 April 2014 at 21:18
Kid said...: Must say that Bishop, Cable, Excalibur, Generation X and X-Force don't really appeal to me, JP. I just bought them to have the set, but there's still half a dozen others I never saw.; 25 April 2014 at 01:11

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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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

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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