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Due out the first week in January, two versions of the 50th Anniversary edition of Superman Vs Spider-Man, one with the original Andru/Adams cover and one painted by Alex Ross. I've got two originals, but I've just ordered both of the new ones and if you're smart you'll do the same. Okay then, at least buy one, but get your orders in fast before they sell out!
Come to think of it, I also have the gold-trimmed standard-size reprint, plus a book with the first few DC/Marvel superhero team-ups, including this one. What can I say? Well done me!
You learn something new every day, despite being an Adams fan I wasn't aware he was involved with this cover! I have never read any of the DC v Marvel original books so I may pick this up
ReplyDeleteI hear that Marvel and DC are publishing a new Spider-Man and Superman book next year as well .
Dick Giordano was involved as well, probably inking, I'd guess. 'May'? Never mind 'may', McS, definitely buy it - it's very cinematic and a durn good read.
DeleteHeard about the new team-up, will probably get it.
I'll probably pick up a copy with the original cover when it's published, Kid. Looking back through my diary, I first spied it on a Friday lunchtime in August's newsagents (opposite the Tricorn) in Portsmouth on Feb 6th 1976. For some reason (probably did not have the 75p on me and I had to rush back to school as I was on a lunch break) I did not pick it up, and it was gone when I returned. It was probably the $2 version imported from the US.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't until April 6th 1976 that W H Smith in Commercial Rd had a copy for sale (the UK 75p price variant), and it was widely available.
Do you have a $2 or 75p priced original?
I was ill in bed (with a cold or something) and was waiting for a pal to bring this 'Treasury Edition' to my house after he finished work in Glasgow. He bought one for himself too, and I was allowed to pick the best one as he didn't bother about things like that. Wish I'd kept a diary now, B, so that I had precise dates for things I bought like you do. My two copies are the 75p version. Wish they'd do it in hardback.
DeleteAnother Spidey anniversary coming up is 50 years since the final issue of Spider-Man Comics Weekly which went on sale on Saturday, February 7th 1976 (exactly 10 days before my 10th birthday) - of course the Spidey weekly continued in its' new landscape format with the same numbering but SMCW was no more.
ReplyDeleteSame numbering, same comic, different format, same leading character, CJ. When a comic is given more pages or more colour (or colour is taken away), do you regard it as a new comic or the same one? Going by your arbitrary standards, the real SMCW ended when it went b&w, and cut down to 32 pages from 40.
DeleteI only meant that the comic's original title had disappeared, Kid.
ReplyDeleteShould've said that then, CJ. You've argued before that once a comic changes its name it's no longer the same comic, even if it continues with the old numbering. However, it was certainly the last issue to bear the name Spider-Man Comics Weekly, so I'll let you off with a strict warning on this occasion. Next time, it's six months in the chokey.
DeleteThis is the version I've got. Still got my original and I bought a second copy a few years ago at a comic fair because it was only £1. I presume this is a reprint of the original. It came out in 1981.
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Superman would kick Spider-Man's ass anyway. With a character as invincible as Superman, it must be hard to invent enemies for him.
I'm a little confused, M. Are you referring to the second Supes/Spidey team-up? That was published around 1981 if memory serves, but the first one was issued in 1976. The gold-trimmed standard-sized reprints were released in 1995. You can see them on my 'When Worlds Collide...' post. I tried the link, but it just took me to a list of several posts and I didn't know which one to click on.
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