tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post1270082103107190056..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: AH, BUT IS IT AN ORIGINAL...?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-58656999755962181612015-07-06T13:50:39.213+01:002015-07-06T13:50:39.213+01:00Yup, that was a way to do it - although sometimes ...Yup, that was a way to do it - although sometimes covers were used to create new splash pages for those strips divided in two, but with three stories per ish, they still had a choice of which covers to alternate. After all, the cover is the most important thing to grab the casual reader.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-84818319476378707702015-07-06T13:27:24.245+01:002015-07-06T13:27:24.245+01:00I must admit that I didn't notice at the time ...I must admit that I didn't notice at the time but looking at the Marvel UK covers now I see how appalling a lot of them were - it was so much better when the original U.S. covers were used. However my very first Marvel comic was POTA No.5 and that has a rather good cover even though it's a UK exclusive so they weren't all bad. But the fact that many stories had to be split over two weeks meant that there was no choice but to create new "UK only" covers - a way around this would have been, for example, alternating Spidey covers with the back-up strips like they did with The Avengers featuring Shang-Chi or Dr. Strange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com