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Friday 7 January 2022

PART TWO OF MARVEL TALES COVER GALLERY...

Would you believe it? I took all my Christmas decorations down yesterday and tucked them away, only to wake up today to an exterior view of a thick white blanket of snow as far as the eye can see. It's not fair, as I'd love to have taken some photos (which I did anyway) of my decorated living-room, with the snow visible through the windows. Ach well, maybe next year.

Anyway, experience tells me that the first post in a series usually garners far more 'hits' than subsequent ones, but never mind, I've elected to show you a few more covers of Marvel Tales issues anyway. Same deal as last time, Crivs - if you had any of these magnificent mags back in the day, feel free to leave a comment saying which ones were your favourites and why.

Remember - this blog needs you!

Quite a jump between #26 and 100, but the latter was lying around, so I decided to include it anyway. I just can't help but spoil you.

4 comments:

Colin Jones said...: Kid, the Christmas season officially lasts until Candlemas on February 2nd and in some countries the Christmas decorations stay up until then so you could have kept yours up too if you'd wanted. I didn't have a tree but I do have 20 battery-operated fairy lights draped over the radiator in my bedroom and they'll probably stay there until my birthday on 17th February.

The "Spidey Goes Mad" story was re-printed in the 1975 Giant Superhero Holiday Grab Bag, wasn't it?; 8 January 2022 at 02:30
Kid said...: Many a time I've left the decorations up well into February before, CJ, but I thought I'd just get it over with this year for some reason.

I know the Spidey story was definitely reprinted in one of the Grab Bags ('cos I've got it), so I'll assume you're right that it was the 1975 one. (Can't be bothered checking.); 8 January 2022 at 07:56
Colin Jones said...: Kid, I envy your blanket of snow - we had some snow here too which was nice to see but it didn't stick and soon turned back to rain again.; 8 January 2022 at 15:58
Kid said...: It rained overnight, CJ, so there were only little patches left when I got up this morning. It's just about all gone now, but thankfully we had snow for at least a full day.; 8 January 2022 at 17:47

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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