FRANK HAMPSON'S MARVEL CENTRE-SPREADS From SUPER SPIDER-MAN...

Copyright MARVEL COMICS

If you have to ask who FRANK HAMPSON is, then hang your heavy head in shame, O false-believer.  Call yourself a comics fan?  Here are a couple of pin-ups he did for MARVEL U.K. back in 1976 & '77, and I've included the covers of the comics they appeared in as well.  (No, he didn't draw the covers, Melvin!)

Right, JP - that's a tenner you me.  I'm going to start charging folk for fulfilling requests from now on.  (No, I don't accept cheques.  Are you crazy?  Boiiing, boiiing!)

SCREAM! COVER GALLERY - PART ONE...

Copyright REBELLION

The first issue of SCREAM! hit newsagents' shelves in Britain on Saturday, March 17th (dated 24th) 1984.  Hard for me to believe that was over 30 years ago, but then, when I think how my home town has changed in that period, it seems like a lifetime away.  However, you're not here to read about that, I'm sure.

Contrary to popular misconception, Scream! was discontinued after a mere 15 issues because of an industrial strike by printers, and not because of complaints from concerned parents about the alleged 'horrific' content.  The name was later added to the masthead of EAGLE weekly and there were 5 Summer Specials to continue the legend of one of Britain's shortest-lived and best-remembered comics.

Here, then, is the first part of a gallery of Scream! covers for you to salivate and swoon over.  Enjoy!

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(Incidentally, the six back pages combine into one large poster.  Why not print them out and put them together?)