CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: SPIDER-MAN MEGAZINE COVER GALLERY...

Thursday, 19 March 2015

SPIDER-MAN MEGAZINE COVER GALLERY...

All images copyright MARVEL COMICS

This is one comic that should've succeeded - but didn't. Reprinting classic SPIDER-MAN adventures from different eras in the Web-slinger's main mag (including LEE & DITKO classics), and MARVEL TEAM-UP tales, it was a nifty little number that gave plenty of bang for its buck (so to speak). Not that there was really anything 'little' about this mag - 96 pages (maybe 100 counting the covers, but I'm too lazy to check), made it fully deserving of its designation as a 'megazine' rather than mere magazine, which, as I'm sure we all know, can often be inferior affairs, ill-equipped to meet the comicbook challenges that confront them.

Unfortunately, I can't scan the contents without risking damage to the pages (too tightly bound), so you'll just have to settle for the covers. There were only six issues before it was discontinued, so it shouldn't be too difficult (or expensive) to track them down on eBay should you feel so inclined. Go on - give yourself a treat today!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Sorta like a UK Treasury Edition ?; 19 March 2015 at 16:15
Kid said...: It was the same page size as a regular comic, CJ, but the amount of pages were about the same as a TE.; 19 March 2015 at 23:05
Anonymous said...: And if I'd looked more closely I'd have seen it wasn't British - doh !!; 19 March 2015 at 23:36
Kid said...: Neither were the TEs, CJ, 'though some of them were printed with U.K. prices on them. These Megazines are great mags, if you're looking to add something to your collection.; 20 March 2015 at 00:27
Anonymous said...: Kid, I knew the TEs weren't British but I thought these were till I looked more closely and saw the price and the Comics Code symbol - and I don't have a collection to add anything to :); 20 March 2015 at 01:37
Kid said...: Don't have a collection, CJ? GASP! Time you started collecting something - even if it's only money.; 20 March 2015 at 03:56

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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