The TITANS - BELATED 50th ANNIVERSARY...

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"I'm late, I'm late. for a very important date...", but I got here in the end.  Back in October, regular commenter CJ reminded me of the then-upcoming 50th Anniversary of Marvel UK's weekly, The Titans.  I told him I'd likely do a post about it - then promptly forgot!  He reminded me that I'd forgotten when nothing relating to it appeared on the blog and I said it wasn't yet too late - then forgot again.  (My memory's shocking these days - and getting worse by the day.)

However, today I was going through a folder of comics and found my actual original Titans issue from 1975 and decided "Now is the time!", belated as it may be.  So, here for your pulsating and palpitating peepers, are some iconic images from that classic UK weekly from so long ago.  The comic is in better condition than I am after 50 years, which is quite disconcerting, but at least I'm still here, even though quite a number of people I once knew are sadly no longer around.

The Titans was an odd comic in that it was published in what was called a 'landscape' format, which allowed two reduced pages from a US comic to be printed side-by-side per UK page.  Basically, it was just turned on its side and stapled through its repositioned spine, but it seemed to be popular with readers as it gave twice the comics content for the page count.  The UK Spider-Man comic followed suit for a while, but that's maybe a post for another day.

Meantime, I hope CJ and you Crivs enjoy looking back to more than 50 years ago.  (You'd better, 'cos it took me ages to scan and clean up the images for your perusal.)  Incidentally, note the free poster, which hasn't been removed from the spine in all the time I've owned the comic.  I think I bought two issues to hang one poster on my wall and I still have it.  Or maybe it's one I bought as a back issue years later, but I can't recall now.  (Told you my memory was terrible.)

Comments welcome - where are you, CJ?

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Incidentally, somewhere on the blog there's a series of cover galleries of every Titans comic ever produced (including a never-published fan-produced 'final' ish) if you feel like tracking them down.  Maybe I should do an 'Omnibus' post on them - or have I already done that?

And for those who'd prefer to see the full poster, that's it below.