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Sunday, 21 September 2025
BABE Of The DAY - SHADO GIRL...
Monday, 15 September 2025
YET MORE CASTEL CRIVENS ACQUISITIONS...
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Sunday, 14 September 2025
NEW THUNDERBIRD 4 By CORGI...
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Saturday, 13 September 2025
CASTEL CRIVENS ACQUISITIONS...
Thursday, 11 September 2025
Sunday, 7 September 2025
The WONDROUS WORLD Of DOCTOR STRANGE SPINS MAD... (Updated)
Like its Spider-Man, Captain America, and Fantastic Four companion volumes (the latter two already in my possession when I saw Spidey and the Doc publications), this is a relatively slim book, though it has some nice stories contained within. My favourite one is probably 'The Wondrous World(s) Of Doctor Strange', which I saw for the first time in the 1968 (Smash! Pow!) Fantastic Summer Special given to me by a classmate around 1969. The Special presented the tale in a resized b&w format more appropriate to its larger dimensions, so the book was the first time I'd seen the story in colour. It had been newly coloured and didn't reproduce the original pallette (apart from the main two protagonists' costumes, obviously) and it looked very atmospheric. Update: Contrary to what I feared when I first published this post, I was able to scan the splash pages from the book and have now replaced the previous images.
I later mildly regretted not buying the books in 1981, but the Spider-Man and Doctor Strange team-up reappeared in an issue of Marvel Tales around the mid-'80s, so I obtained the story that way. Then there were Marvel Masterworks and Omnibus editions, etc., which also reprinted it over the years, so I've got it several times over now. The other story that's worth having is the Barry Smith illustrated 'While The World Spins Mad!', though it never particularly impressed me at the time. Like the other one, I now have various reprints of that tale too, one at least in an individual issue (Marvel Milestones) and also in various collected editions. At that time (1972) it was the last Doctor Strange story ever scripted by Stan Lee (plot was by Smith) and what follows after the pics is what he had to say about it in his introduction.
'It marks the very last Dr. Strange story that I ever wrote. As a matter of fact, I had already stopped writing the awesome adventures of our peerless prestidigitator a few years earlier, but for some reason, I very much wanted to script this particular yarn.' In 2006, Stan returned to Doctor Strange for an issue of a limited series called Stan Lee Meets, wherein he met several Marvel superheroes, each new tale scripted by Stan himself, with a reprint of an earlier tale by Stan as a back-up. The Smith-plotted and illustrated tale was the back-up in the Strange issue, so if you want the last two Doctor Strange stories scripted by Stan (in one issue too), that's the one you need to seek out on eBay if you don't already own it. The new Stan Lee Meets stories were reprinted in a collected edition, though not the back-up tales.
Anyway, Crivvie chums, I rabbited on for longer than I intended so I'll take my leave of you for now. As ever, don't forget where the comments section is if any of you have something interesting to say - and even if you don't. (Hey, when have I ever let it stop me?!)
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
SPECTRUM IS STILL GREEN...
Monday, 1 September 2025
DOCTOR STRANGE & CONAN - An Unlikely Mix - (To Say Nothing Of The AVENGERS & SHANG-CHI, MASTER Of KUNG FU)...
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Conan's legs are seriously dodgy on this cover, particularly his right one |