CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: HEY! IT'S HULK MEGAZINE #1...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

HEY! IT'S HULK MEGAZINE #1...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

As VICTOR MELDREW would say: "I don't believe it!" Yeah, I know I'm always banging on about just how quickly time flies, but I'm compelled to mention it once again on sight of this comic. 1996? It can't be true, but it is. Although it only seems to me like four or five years ago at the most, a whole nineteen years have elapsed since I purchased this ace HULK MEGAZINE mag from a store in Glasgow city centre.

It's contains some cracking classic tales that belong in every comic fan's collection. Even though I own the original printing of HEAVEN IS A VERY SMALL PLACE!, it's worth the price of the Special for this titanic tale from the '70s alone! Add to that a pair of GIL KANE illustrated adventures and you've surely got a guaranteed recipe for success, right? You'd think so anyway, but if there were ever any subsequent issues of this title, I never saw them. Nevertheless, this is a comicbook you should have, so if not, get on to eBay right away!

3 comments:

baab said...: What a cover that is.

John Severin inking Herb Trimpe is very nice.
I became a little bored with Hulk and Herb at times,this team elevated it for me.

Gil Kane would turn up for a short run on a few of the comics I enjoyed,I love the linework he sometimes used,as in this Hulk artwork.
Or maybe it is because he appears to be the inker also.

I will have to search da' net to find out if he also inked the others I am thinking of.

Pleasant curses to ya Kid!; 18 March 2015 at 22:56
Anonymous said...: Kid, was 'Heaven Is A Very Small Place' one of the stories in the 1975 Holiday Grab-Bag because I seem to remember it as so - of course I'm old and feeble now and my memory isn't what it was......; 18 March 2015 at 23:17
Kid said...: John Severin, in my opinion, elevated everyone's art he ever worked on, regardless of how good they were to begin with, Baab.

Pleasant curses pleasantly appreciated.

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Yup, it was, CJ. I know, 'cos I've got it. It was also reprinted in an issue of MWOM.; 18 March 2015 at 23:29

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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