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Here's yet another bold batch of British MARVEL comic covers from over 30 years ago. This time around it's MARVEL SUPER ADVENTURE and MARVEL ACTION for you all to salivate over, featuring KIRBY, COLAN, BUSCEMA and SMITH artwork. I can't help but think that the LETRASET lettering on the covers did them no favours and that professional hand-lettering after the style of SAM ROSEN would've been much easier on the eye.
That's one of the things that often surprised me about British Marvel - the way they would dilute the distinctive essence of what made a Marvel comic what it was by using typeset lettering instead of the cataclysmic calligraphy that artistic giants like Sam Rosen or ARTIE SIMEK were capable of - what the heck was the editor thinking? Such a sorry state of affairs wouldn't have happened if I'd been in charge of these mags, no sirree! (And they only had to ask.)
Anyway, what particular reminiscences (if any) do you have about these weekly comics, dear readers? Why not share them with the rest of us in the Crivens comments section? You'll be glad you did!
