tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post2388660771235956740..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DISCOVERING MARVEL U.K. - GUEST POST BY NIFTY NICK CAPUTO...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-49361350858337143902013-04-10T06:42:51.159+01:002013-04-10T06:42:51.159+01:00Oops! I meant to say that it was in The Mighty Wor...Oops! I meant to say that it was in The Mighty World of Marvel that Ivan Kragoff was called the 'Mad Ghost'. In Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (and FF #13) he was, of course, known as 'The Red Ghost'.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-8781554837185465622013-01-29T05:23:13.972+00:002013-01-29T05:23:13.972+00:00Benny, sorry, I'm not aware of any place, but ...Benny, sorry, I'm not aware of any place, but I'd imagine that some must exist somewhwere on the net. Cheers.<br /><br />******<br /><br />Darci, it's a fella by the name of Rob Kirby who's writing the book. He's been working on it for over 20 years, so I'm guessing it'll be a large volume.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-2374612779737384832013-01-29T04:35:25.672+00:002013-01-29T04:35:25.672+00:00See http://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-...See http://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-untold-stories.html#comment-form for Tony's comments about preparing material for Marvel UK. Apparently there's a book in the works on the subject. I wonder who is writing it?<br />Thanks!Darcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598465647270663106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-15869507165414290982013-01-29T01:06:16.190+00:002013-01-29T01:06:16.190+00:00kid and nick i found your blogs and they have trul...kid and nick i found your blogs and they have truly been great reads!im more than a decade removed from comics and following them but iv been catching up on lost time with a fury since about oct in fact im writing/illustrating one now with no reference or research of any kind to just kinda see where my art and storytelling skills are at right now raw without any sort of insight now before beginning a graphic design program in march,my art throughout my adult life has consisted of pretty mundane marketable stuff like tattoo flash and band art an shirts just as a way to keep drawing and supplement the income but lately iv been fancying myself abit of a storyteller and getting back to my comic kid roots and its been a really great experience although overwhelming! i took a stab at wolverine cuz its what i know and i was wondering if you are aware of anything out there reputable where people can submit their fan fiction for critique by any chance? thanks! cheers!.....can you only leave comments on blogspot??? i couldn't find a way to message users off their profiles?!? stupid computers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-85704765106458557552013-01-18T18:54:47.096+00:002013-01-18T18:54:47.096+00:00You're right, Nick. He had a fair amount of Zi...You're right, Nick. He had a fair amount of Zipatone - as well as a green tint in some panels if I remember correctly. Must dig that issue out one day and refresh my memory.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-32796214732802406572013-01-18T18:18:07.260+00:002013-01-18T18:18:07.260+00:00Interesting info, Kid. Maybe they should have chan...Interesting info, Kid. Maybe they should have changed the {urple Man's name to the Zip-a-tone man!Nick Caputohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096100224095280865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-32365440006409286382013-01-17T14:50:10.502+00:002013-01-17T14:50:10.502+00:00Nick, all the credits were eliminated from the Pow...Nick, all the credits were eliminated from the Power Comic titles. (I think a credit box was overlooked in a Hulk tale in Smash! once 'though.) Also, American references, street names, spelling, etc., were revised.<br /><br />As for the Apemaster, I suspect the communist reference may have had something to do with it, although maybe it was simply because the tales were printed in black and white. (The Purple Man's name was changed to The Controller in an issue of MWOM a few years later for that reason.) Also, Ivan was the master of three apes, so Apemaster may just have seemed a more obvious choice to Alf, Bart & Cos. (Power Comics editors.)<br /><br />Natasha (Black Widow) was changed to Natasia, which I believe is the correct spelling - even 'though it's pronounced as Natasha.<br /><br />Weird, eh?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-62256509248895036642013-01-17T14:34:17.119+00:002013-01-17T14:34:17.119+00:00Andrew,
I love hearing stories like yours. I'...Andrew,<br /><br />I love hearing stories like yours. I'm curious, did the Odhams line eliminate the splash page credits for Lee and company?<br /><br />Kid,<br /><br />I didn't know the Red Ghosts name was changed to Apemaster. Was that to remove any communist references?Nick Caputohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096100224095280865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-30459309420539494402013-01-16T21:48:28.050+00:002013-01-16T21:48:28.050+00:00That was more or less my exact same experience as ...That was more or less my exact same experience as well, Andrew. I remember being amazed when I discovered U.S. mags featuring the same characters, especially as the art had 'developed' somewhat - even when, in Kirby's case in particular, it was by the same artist. And what about the different names? In Wham!, the FF fought the 'Apemaster', but in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics it was the 'Mad Ghost'. It seemed like I had stumbled onto a product from an alternate universe somewhere. As for Alan Class comics, I don't think that I even knew they reprinted Marvel superheroes until around 1972 or '73.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-44815946491084099402013-01-16T19:51:46.359+00:002013-01-16T19:51:46.359+00:00It’s interesting to see an American perspective on...It’s interesting to see an American perspective on British reprints of American comics! As a Brit of a similar generation, my experience was pretty much the inverse of this. I first encountered "Power Comics" (as the Odhams line was called) in Spring 1968, and was immediately taken by tales of the Avengers, the X-Men et al without realizing they originated in the US. I thought they were written in London by two really cool guys calling themselves Alf and Bart (who were really only the editors of Power Comics). So I was confused during that summer (I was only 10 at the time) when I picked up some American imports featuring exactly the same characters, but with some character by the name of Lee claiming to have written the stories. I eventually worked out the correct order of things, and became an assiduous collector of American Marvel Comics (and huge fan of Stan Lee), but I still retained a nostalgic sentiment for the larger format, black-and-white Power Comics. So when "Mighty World of Marvel" and the other British titles appeared in the 1970s, I started to collect them as well even though they were inferior in most respects to the US comics. I never had much interest in the Alan Class comics, though -- they were too random in their content to form any attachment to them.Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-86165035204516692712013-01-16T18:58:42.313+00:002013-01-16T18:58:42.313+00:00FIN FANG.
FOOM!FIN FANG.<br />FOOM!baabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07388667792167744260noreply@blogger.com