Mighty Marvel Strikes Again...
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Yet another couple of True Believers mags that I should've received weeks ago, but which only just arrived yesterday. I bought the original FF ish of the one above sometime around the first half of 1983 in a newsagent's in Glasgow. It was a few issues old, but I'd missed it when it first came out. I was helping out a signwriter I knew that day and he expressed surprise that someone of my age was still buying comics. Maybe he thought it was a comic for girls because of Sue Richards on the cover, but I didn't care.
Never had and don't have the original ish of the Spidey TB, but I doubtless read the story when it was reprinted in one of the UK weeklies so it'll be good to finally read it in colour. Jumping back to the FF, I always liked the fact that John Byrne restored the thick black collars that the team had for around three issues back in the '60s as I always preferred them over the subsequent thinner versions.
Anyway, if you don't already have these beauties, you might want to consider adding them to your comics stash before the prices on the collectors' market escalates beyond what's reasonable.
I bought the FF issue when it originally came out too but I didn't like the return to the thick black collars as I preferred the thin ones. But I'll take the thick black collars any day over the later thick white ones, yuk!
ReplyDeleteThe Spidey/Black cat story was printed in Spectacular Spider-Man Weekly during Autumn 1979 - I remember the cover.
I still have my original ish bought lo, those many years ago, CJ - have you?
ReplyDelete1979? Then I'll definitely have read it back then. I don't think I've still got that one though.
What are you treating yourself to this Christmas, CJ - Conan Epic Collection?
No, my FF copy is long gone, Kid.
ReplyDeleteI bought my Christmas present to myself back in October - a Chromebook laptop which cost £349 but it's worth every penny :)
Gasp! But what will you have to open on Christmas day, CJ? I hope you've at least bought yourself a selection box.
ReplyDeleteMadonna's coming to my house on Christmas day with her legs crossed. She says I can have fun opening them, but I'm not sure what she means.