CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: FOURTEENTH & FINAL PART OF SECRET ORIGINS COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Tuesday 15 October 2024

FOURTEENTH & FINAL PART OF SECRET ORIGINS COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Okay, so let's get it out of the way. Here we are at last, with the long-awaited (cough) final part of an almost 8-and-a-half years odyssey through the covers and various interior images of the 50-ish Secret Origins series from around the late 1980s and early '90s. We saw the last regular mag in the previous gallery instalment - this time around it's Annuals, Specials, and Giants just to complete the set.

Actually, Weird Secret Origins doesn't really belong here as it's a reprint issue published in 2004, a few years after the Replica Editions (1997/8 & 1999) of the first two mags from the '60s - plus a retro-style 'third' mag called Even More Secret Origins (2003), but I decided to throw it in just for good measure as it was stored away with the other mags in this post. (Wouldn't want it to feel unloved and rejected, now would we?)

So that's it Crivvies - it's now time to fill in the hole, pat down the earth, say our final goodbyes to Secret Origins, and focus on what lies ahead in future posts. Hopefully you'll all be along for the ride! In the meantime, feel free to bid your final adieus to this series of DC mags in our eager-to-hear-from-you comments section.

(I must confess to a sense of accomplishment - I started and I finished (eventually). Magnus Magnusson, John Humphrys, and Clive Myrie would be proud of me.)

4 comments:

Colin Jones said...: I'm not sure but I think comments may be going astray on Rip Jagger's Dojo again. I left a recent comment about Sinbad and one about The Dark Crystal but neither have appeared.

Although you didn't watch the POTA TV series, Kid, were you aware of the POTA bubblegum cards featuring scenes from the series? There were two cards in every pack of bubblegum and about 60 cards in all I think. In my school everyone seemed to be collecting and swapping them in the first half of 1975 - well, the boys were anyway while the girls seemed more interested in the Bay City Rollers as I recall.; 15 October 2024 at 13:27
Kid said...: The last time comments to RJ's blog took a while to be published and answered was because he was out of town for a few days, CJ, so it might be the same again. No, I wasn't aware of the cards, and wouldn't have been interested in them anyway as I hadn't seen the series. Also, I hate the 'confectionery' the cards came with (my revulsion of it had increased since chidhood) so I wouldn't have bought them for that fact alone.; 15 October 2024 at 13:34
McSCOTTY said...: Some of the later issues seem to be pretty decent they certainly have some nice covers. Although not part of the original series, the Weird Secret Origins issue ( that passed me by) is by far my favourite issue; 15 October 2024 at 22:32
Kid said...: Should be easy enough to acquire from back issue dealers, McS, should you be interested in doing so. In fact, there was a hardback collected edition of the two Secret Origins replica editions, the retro 'third' (new, but reprints) 'Even More' issue, plus the 'Weird' issue. Would look nice on your bookshelf.; 15 October 2024 at 23:03

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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