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It was 1973 or '74. I was in Blackpool on holiday with my parents (both years), and was astonished to find that brand-new, pristine issues of late '60s MARVEL comics (as well as some DC) were readily available (in some shops) straight from the spinner-racks for the decimal equivalent of their original U.K. prices. I purchased a few FANTASTIC FOUR issues by LEE & KIRBY (which we'll look at another time), but, amazingly, I was also able to pick up five issues of The SILVER SURFER's mag, as fresh as the day they were printed, for a mere 25p (5p each).
So, what accounts for these classic comics still being on sale so many years after they were first published? (Remember, when you're 14 or 15, three or four years is a sizeable stretch of your young life.) Well, darned if I know to be honest, but I'm glad they were. The issues on view here are replacement ones I obtained around 13-odd years later, but one look at these covers and I'm a young lad on holiday in Blackpool again, back in the sizzlin' '70s. Thing is, these were amongst the best Surfer stories published (in my humble opinion), so I was really lucky to get them.
So savour the sight of these sensational Silver Surfer covers in all their magnificent marvellousness. And if you have any nostalgic reminiscences of your own associated with these issues, you're more than welcome to share them with all your fellow Criv-ites in our crackin' comments section. Well - what're you waiting for? Get typing, or I'll start thinking I'm the only person who reads this blamed blog. (And my delusions to the contrary are important to me.)
And now - the splash pages...
