CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART FOUR OF UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Monday, 6 April 2015

PART FOUR OF UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

First, the bad news. I'm unable to open the Spidey Special at the foot of this post wide enough to scan the interiors without damaging it, so you're going to have to settle for the front and back covers. Also, my FLASHBACK comics are up in my attic somewhere, so I can't, at the moment, scan the splash page from the featured issue, but when I can, I'll add it later. Fortunately, I'd already scanned the cover for an earlier post, which is why I can show it here.

So here we are with the final part of the cover gallery of UNTOLD TALES Of SPIDER-MAN for you to dribble and drool over. There are some nice images here, reminiscent of STEVE DITKO's artwork on the character back in the 1960s, the definitive look for Spidey in many people's opinion. Did you read Untold Tales back in the mid-'90s? Any reminiscences or observations that you'd care to share with your fellow Criv-ites would be most welcome.

Seat-belt fastened? Then away we goooooooo!

6 comments:

John Pitt said...: Cheers Kid, but will you remind us when you do add them, as sometimes I miss your updates. Luckily, I've come across some when I revisit posts.
Anyway, question? - As the Flashback series was supposed to have taken place before FF#1, how come Peter's married to MJ already?; 6 April 2015 at 22:37
John Pitt said...: Ammend that question, - I never spotted the "Richard"! NOW, it makes sense! ( Didn't know they worked for SHIELD, though ).; 6 April 2015 at 22:57
Kid said...: As I don't have the issue to hand I can't check the story content, JP. Are you going by the cover illo? If so, that's Peter Parker's parents, not him and Mary Jane.; 6 April 2015 at 22:58
Kid said...: Oops! I typed out my answer before your 2nd comment came through, JP. It was waiting to be published before I'd submitted my response, so it automatically gets posted in sequence.; 6 April 2015 at 23:01
John Pitt said...: At first glance I thought it was Petey, as he now looks so much like his Dad! Without having read every single Spidey story ever written, I am now wondering if PP ever got to know about his parents secret past before their untimely demise?; 7 April 2015 at 12:28
Kid said...: I think it was touched on in one of the Spidey Annuals in the late '60s or early '70s, although other details may have been added over the years. Unfortunately, I can't check as most of my stuff is still in the attic.; 7 April 2015 at 12:46

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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Images remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are used here only for the purpose of review, promotion, and nostalgia.

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(Although, if you don't allow copying on your own site, then you really shouldn't be copying from others, should you?)

And while you can credit this blog if you like, it's not mandatory. Who has time to make notes of every casually visited site during an idle browse of the Internet?

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