CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: YET ANOTHER AMAZING FANTASY

Monday, 23 March 2015

YET ANOTHER AMAZING FANTASY - THREE, IN FACT...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Okay, so here's a question for you Crivs - exactly how many issues were there of AMAZING FANTASY? Including, of course, the issues originally called AMAZING ADVENTURES and AMAZING ADULT FANTASY. Fifteen, right? Wrong! Eighteen, in fact. That's because, back in the mid-'90s, MARVEL published another three issue continuing the numbering from what had once been the final AF featuring SPIDER-MAN. What you're looking at here is Volume 1, Numbers 16, 17 & 18, thirty-two years after the fact. These adventures are set between AF #15 and ASM #1, and your collection isn't complete without them. Straight on to eBay with you.

And below is the most famous issue in the series.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: And Journey Into Mystery has reappeared twice - both times renamed from Thor. The most recent one was cancelled in 2013 but no doubt it'll be back again someday.; 23 March 2015 at 23:52
Kid said...: Yeah, I picked up the first revival of the title - can't remember if I got the second. It was mince anyway.; 24 March 2015 at 00:05
John Pitt said...: More continuity problems for my imaginary panini reprints. Add these to them and the untold tales and the flashback series - all in theiir appropriate places, of course.; 24 March 2015 at 13:32
Kid said...: No doubt there'll be a few more in the coming years, JP.; 24 March 2015 at 13:57

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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