CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: NOW IT CAN BE TOLD

Monday, 23 March 2015

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD - FF #306...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Recently, I posted a gallery of some FANTASTIC FOUR covers - #s 297 -312, to be precise. However, there was one ish missing from my collection - #306 - whose image I had to borrow from eBay to fill the gap. I don't know why that particular number had eluded me back in 1987, and although I'd always intended to track it down, I somehow just never got 'round to it. Funny how a whopping 28 years can slip by without one noticing, eh?

However, the long wait is over. I bought one a few days back and it arrived today, so I'm an ecstatically happy chappie. Here it is, along with its splash page to celebrate the momentous occasion. I was only half the age I am now when I should have bought this ish, and I was living in a different house in another neighbourhood - in a whole different century, in fact - but fate has finally rectified the oversight and united us at last. (Well, fate, eBay, and two-odd quid, to be precise.) Praise be to the Internet.

Okay, frantic ones - feast your eyes on these two images featuring the FF's fabulous foray into the fantastic. It's what comics (and blogs devoted to them) were invented for!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: You were living in a different millennium too, Kid. Didn't you move back to your old house in 1987 ? You should write a post about how that happened.; 23 March 2015 at 15:07
Kid said...: I think I've told as much of that story as is interesting, CJ. Regarding FF #306, funny thing is, looking at it now, I'm reminded of the other house I was in when the comic came out, even 'though I'd never seen it until recently.; 23 March 2015 at 15:16
karl said...: Great stuff kid great stuff. The FF was going thru quite the change back then and this was the work in progress. Fascinating reading!; 23 March 2015 at 17:23
Kid said...: Thanks, Karl. I must confess that, after John Byrne, the FF lost a lot of its shine for me, but it was good to see John Buscema draw the characters again.; 23 March 2015 at 18:30

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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