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Post by tingramretro on Jul 2, 2019 4:14:55 GMT -5
Rampage debuted in 1977, reprinting The Defenders and Nova:  This was the 34th and final issue:  Of the weekly run, yes. Fortunately, it was relaunched as Rampage Monthly a few weeks later. And improved dramatically as a result! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 5:09:36 GMT -5
Yep, here's the first issue:  It ran until 1982. Final issue cover here:  |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2019 6:24:25 GMT -5
Funny, I don't remember Rampage at all. Interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 6:34:50 GMT -5
Debuting in 1978:  |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2019 8:19:13 GMT -5
Debuting in 1978: The greatest comic in the entire history of the world!!  And it came with a free DIY model X-Wing fighter.  |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2019 8:33:41 GMT -5
It's interesting that some of the colours on that Howard Chaykin front cover had been corrected for the British publication from how they appeared on the American first issue...  Darth Vader is coloured to look closer to his black armour, rather than green, and Han's tunic is blue/black, rather than brown (though he's still not in the correct black waistcoat and white shirt). Leia is still wearing entirely the wrong colour outfit (just a different incorrect colour), and Luke and Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsabers are still coloured incorrectly as red instead of white/blue. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 9:46:24 GMT -5
It's good that the colours were corrected. I'd love a complete run of that title! Mighty World of Marvel morphed into Marvel Comic with its 330th issue (1979):  |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2019 10:08:05 GMT -5
It's good that the colours were corrected. I'd love a complete run of that title! Probably unsurprisingly, I have a complete run of the U.S. Star Wars series. The only issues of Star Wars Weekly or The Empire Strikes Back Monthly that I have in my collection nowadays are the ones with UK exclusive stories in them, and a handful of issues that are important to me (like Star wars Weekly #18, which was my first issue of Marvel's SW comic). |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 12:55:34 GMT -5
Hopping back to 1977 briefly, The Complete Fantastic Four was launched:  It ended after 37 issues, the FF returning to the pages of Mighty World of Marvel. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 13:58:15 GMT -5
I remember a few Rampage in my visit in London in the early 90's.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2019 15:02:46 GMT -5
I remember a few Rampage in my visit in London in the early 90's. What, as back issues you mean? It finished publication in the early '80s. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 15:09:11 GMT -5
I remember a few Rampage in my visit in London in the early 90's. What, as back issues you mean? It finished publication in the early '80s. I have seen them in second hand stores ... believe me I did seen them and I was with my dear friend Jeff who happen run a comic book store back then. I know that they finished publication in the early 80's and all that ... but they did have some issues floating around in the 90's and seeing them sold too. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2019 17:02:54 GMT -5
What, as back issues you mean? It finished publication in the early '80s. I have seen them in second hand stores ... believe me I did seen them and I was with my dear friend Jeff who happen run a comic book store back then. I know that they finished publication in the early 80's and all that ... but they did have some issues floating around in the 90's and seeing them sold too. Fair enough. Secondhand stores may well have had them, but I don't recall London comic shops like Mega City Comics in Camden, Gosh in Bloomsbury, or Fantastic Store in the old Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street carrying much in the way of UK reprint back issues in the 90s. They were much more oriented towards back issues of American comics, which in those pre-eBay, pre-online shopping days were much harder to find over here than they are today. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2019 3:53:46 GMT -5
We've reached my birth year: 1980! Anyone know anything about this one?  I absolutely must share this one:  This looks good:  I have one issue of this, found at a car boot sale (I'd love to find more):  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 3, 2019 6:50:59 GMT -5
That last one has the cover painting for Marvel Super Action Magazine, from their black & white magazine line. GCD indicates that the Punisher and Dominic Fortune stories are ones that were done for Marvel preview #2, rather than the 2 that appeared in Marvel Super Action. The Moon Knight story was from Hulk Magazine #15. Interestingly enough, I see that the cover for Marvel Preview #2 was used for Savage Action #2.
Looking through the cover gallery at GCD, I see that they repurposed covers from Marvel magazines, including Marvel Previews, then switch to comic book covers (including Moon Knight #1), then go back to the magazine line.
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And it came with a free DIY model X-Wing fighter. 
