PART TWO Of PLANET Of The APES COVER GALLERY...

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Ten more PLANET Of The APES covers from Mighty MARVEL's mid-'70s British weekly to enthrall you this time around, folks.  Not many of these images strike a chord with me, so I'm uncertain whether I was still buying the comic at this time, though I suspect I must've been.  Do any of these covers ring a bell in the belfry of your mind?  Then let's read your reminiscences in the comments section, Ape fans.

MARVEL'S The SUPER-HEROES COVER & IMAGE GALLERY - PART SEVEN...

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Only 15 issues to go until we reach the finish line of this particular race, faithful ones, so that equates as three more instalments in The SUPER-HEROES cover & image gallery.  The mag was probably past its best by this point, as The CAT was a bit of a second-rater and GIANT-MAN was hardly in The SILVER SURFER's league, but I stuck with it right to the end.  From my perspective, with The X-MEN and ol' High Pockets, the comic was a comforting amalgam of FANTASTIC and TERRIFIC, two of my favourite weeklies from the '60s, and that was more than good enough for me.

At one point, MARVEL U.K. actually considered reprinting Fantastic's The MISSING LINK/JOHNNY FUTURE strip, seemingly thinking that they owned the copyright to it.  That would've been brilliant to see again, and made the periodical even more like an ODHAMS 'POWER COMIC', but, sadly, it just didn't happen.  Nearly 50 years later, nostalgic readers are still waiting for a deluxe re-presentation of the late LUIS BERMEJO's awesomely illustrated artistic tour-de-force.  Maybe one day.  (Update: It happened in 2020.)

Anyway, enjoy this brief look back into yesteryear - and don't dare miss the remaining issues in upcoming posts.  Excelsior.

This page and the next were produced specially for British readers to bring them up to
speed on the history of GIANT MAN & The WASP and became pages 3 & 4 of the tale

Look at that first ad - surely the worst drawn & lettered one in existence

BABE Of The DAY - PENELOPE CRUZ...

Here's a lady whose name is PENELOPE,

 so she must be Lady Penelope - er, I think.