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| Image copyright MARVEL COMICS |
Why is this a spectacular splash page? Because it's by JIM STARLIN, it features WARLOCK (formerly known as HIM), and, er - because it's got a hot babe with a body to die for. What? Me, sexist? Perish forbid.
Thursday, 17 November 2016
The STRANGE WORLD Of STEVE DITKO...
Read an extremely interesting article about SPIDER-MAN and Dr. STRANGE co-creator STEVE DITKO the other day. I accessed it via a link on MARK EVANIER's blog, and it was such an eye-opening read that I thought I'd link to it here as well, so you can all see it for yourselves (if you haven't already). Click here.
The WIZARD RETURNS...
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| Images copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd |
Now here's a blast from the past. The WIZARD #1 from February 1970. I was yet a primary school pupil when I first bought and read the comic 46-odd years ago. Today, I acquired this replacement, and although I haven't yet re-read it, I plan to before I get very much older. It's always nice when a little piece of the past pops up in the present.
The comic was, in actual fact, a revival - in name at least - of a story paper that first saw the light of day in 1922. Amazingly, it survived until 1963 - a staggering 41 years. The revived title didn't manage quite as long as that, bowing out for the final time in 1978. Note that publisher D.C. THOMSON still weren't calling the weekly periodical a 'comic', preferring to refer to it as a 'picture story paper for boys'.
Want a taste of the contents? Be my guest.
And, below, is the cover to #1 of the first incarnation from 1922.
