MARVEL SUPERHEROES COVER & IMAGE GALLERY - PROLOGUE...

Copyright MARVEL COMICS

As a little taste of what's in store, here's a teaser for an upcoming cover gallery I'm planning.  I no longer have every issue of MARVEL SUPERHEROES, but I have enough to get a few posts out of them.  Take a look at The WONDERFUL WORLD Of MARVEL feature by DEZ SKINN somewhere below.  The cover to MWOM #1 appears to have been reproduced from an actual published comic (as does the centrespread), but, interestingly, it bears the legend Reg TM and (c) Marvel Comics Group 1972, whereas the copies I have all say Reg TM and (c) 1972 Magazine Management London Ltd.  So was the one available to Dez for his article a 'dummy', or one from an early try-out printing which was changed at some stage before the finished comic was published?

Another one of life's little mysteries to puzzle and perplex us.  Anyone know the answer?

MOOD INDIGO...

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BLOWING MY OWN TRUMPET DEPT...

Dustjacket in protective sleeve

Behold - a copy of The Wind In The Willows I purchased via eBay a few months back.  A stock photo of the book - with a dustjacket - was used to advertise the tome, but the copy I received was without one.  Upon studying the small print of the original listing, I noticed  it said that the condition of books may vary and may not have dustjackets, which annoyed me as I'm of the opinion that photographs used to advertise an item should portray the actual one for sale.  (Or at least one of a similar condition and appearance.)

Anyway, it was a nice little volume (see pic below), so rather than moan about things I decided to create my own dustjacket.  I wanted to use the cover illustration originally used for this particular edition (Scribner's, 1960) so I scanned the dustjacket of a centenary edition (Atheneum, 2008) and used computer technology to remove any references to its anniversary status from the cover and inside jacket notes.  The cover I scanned was from a different-sized book so it wasn't quite so straightforward as it sounds, but with a bit of trial and error I eventually produced a result I was happy with.

So, being proud of my handiwork, I thought I'd share it with you here so that you can all tell me how creative and multi-talented I am.  Obviously you don't have to mean it, I just like to read paeans of praise exalting me to the heavens.  Doesn't everybody?

        

The book as I received it