tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post3236201509211588924..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: REFLECTIVE REPOST: WHAM! IN THE '70s - NOT QUITE DEAD YET...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-30978001748685591902021-04-07T18:14:12.849+01:002021-04-07T18:14:12.849+01:00The strip could well be a reprint from an earlier ...The strip could well be a reprint from an earlier Eagle Annual, T47. Perhaps one of our team of Crivvies would know for sure? Anyone?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-57273145186651022042021-04-07T17:54:08.834+01:002021-04-07T17:54:08.834+01:00And I always thought Jeff Arnold and Riders of the...And I always thought Jeff Arnold and Riders of the Range died with Eagle by 1962.Terranova47https://www.blogger.com/profile/12417687209201322523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-25791195112160011822021-04-07T08:53:06.808+01:002021-04-07T08:53:06.808+01:00I didn't have all the Smash! & Wham! Annua...I didn't have all the Smash! & Wham! Annuals back then, LH - but I do now. The Umbrella Men appeared in The Dandy. (Charles Grigg was the artist.) Didn't realise you were still in hospital, hope you're allowed home soon. Any good-looking nurses administering to your needs (in a medical sense of course)?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-49635693550508219792021-04-07T00:44:42.730+01:002021-04-07T00:44:42.730+01:00I had all Smash and Wham annuals back then. Good f...I had all Smash and Wham annuals back then. Good fun reading .As time goes so do they. Oh well. Been racking my head off here in hospital as to which comic had The Umbrella Men .Was it Dandy or Beano ?Lionel Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16590234347973457804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-59435346244782446102021-04-07T00:38:43.119+01:002021-04-07T00:38:43.119+01:00Which just proves that you should read Crivens mor...Which just proves that you should read Crivens more often, CJ - and comment on it as well. It's good for your soul.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-74717770252223658672021-04-07T00:16:03.598+01:002021-04-07T00:16:03.598+01:00I'm not old enough to remember Wham! and Pow! ...I'm not old enough to remember Wham! and Pow! so I'd never heard of them until I read about them on Crivens. Colin Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13564469551279026689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-24072125701411420672021-04-06T15:25:09.759+01:002021-04-06T15:25:09.759+01:00I enjoyed the humour strips as well, McS, especial...I enjoyed the humour strips as well, McS, especially Frankie Stein, but my heart belonged to Susan Storm, so I bought Wham! so I could drool over her. (Didn't like her first change in hairstyle though, so my attentions were sometimes diverted by Marvel Girl, The Wasp, and Scarlet Witch.) The resizing of the pages was a mixed bag; the early FF tales were done quite well in Wham!, but Spidey in Pow! was generally awful, as the bodger (as they were called) clearly didn't know what he was looking at and just couldn't visualise what was there off-panel when it came to extending them. Yeah, there seemed a huge gulf between the Power Comics and Marvel UK, but (as you say) there were only 3 or 4 years between them - and we had reprints of Marvel stuff (Spidey, Silver Surfer, etc) in TV21 to bridge the gap. Ah, the good ol' days, eh?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-35354848944324428992021-04-06T14:28:44.346+01:002021-04-06T14:28:44.346+01:00I think most people of our age (or thereabouts) th...I think most people of our age (or thereabouts) that are comic fans have a soft spot for the old Odhams comics. Unlike yourself however my main interest in them were the (amazing) humour strips rather than the Marvel reprints. .I always found them a hard read (to my 6- 8 years old eyes ) as the original US pages were combined into one UK page etc and just looked messy at times to me then (and now to be fair) . I can only recall having had 2 annuals at the time; POW 1968 and my favourite Wham 1967 annuals (although I have a sneaking feeling may have had the SMASH 1967 annual as well but my memory on these things is not as honed as yours) . I also clearly remember when Marvel UK started up in 1972 thinking it was so long ago that I first read Marvel strips in the UK Odhams comics, when it was only about 4 years previous, strange how things like that appear at the time. Smash was always my favourite of the 3 Power comics I bought (Wham! and Pow! being the others) I rarely bought Terrific a or Fantastic as I think they were relatively expense (and wasn’t a superhero fan then). McSCOTTYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00180091610187270638noreply@blogger.com