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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 8, 2024 23:25:41 GMT -5
Marvel UK got plenty of use out of Earl Norem's cover from Rampaging Hulk #3. Rampage Monthly #3 
I like how it says the Hulk was the "star of the tv series" : I wonder what other shows the Hulk starred in during his acting career? Did he ever do Death of a Salesman or Richard III?
"Now is winter of Hulk's discontent...so HULK SMASH!" Hulk is no Lee J Cobb, though. I see him more starring in By Bye Birdie. |
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Post by zaku on Jun 10, 2024 3:47:26 GMT -5
As UK members will know, US comics were sold in the UK, usually in newsagents or specialist shops. Like, uh, comics books shop or shops specialized in, I don't know, importing material from over sea?  |
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Post by rich on Sept 7, 2024 8:28:06 GMT -5
Good memories! As a little kid in the 80s I didn't have much pocket money to spend on comics- just enough for one or two comics, and I never wasted any on sweets like my sister!  UK comics were so cheap that I bought very few US comics until I was in secondary school- the US comics were 3x the price, often had fewer pages, had worse colouring and horrendous paper, and were much smaller. It was a no brainer! Transformers was my no.1 series by a long shot, but I also had issues of GIJoe, Captain Planet, loads of Spiderman comics, a couple of X-Men US comics (Jim Lee) and others. I bought exclusively Marvel until maybe '95! I always liked the Batman character, but his comics were few and far between and usually rather uninspiring for little me. |
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Post by rich on Sept 7, 2024 8:37:07 GMT -5
Ooh, I forgot Thundercats! I liked that comic. That was Marvel too, right?
I don't recall whether I simply grew out of UK comics or what happened, around '93. I remember once feeling embarrassed when I went in to buy a Spiderman comic because kids from my school were there, even though I hadn't started secondary school just yet. The comic shop in my town had shut by then, but another opened in '96... pocket money had increased by then, so a world of fun greeted me in the form of US comics.
It wasn't like 93-96 were barren comics years- my library had lots of reprints, especially Titan books and all their DC stuff.
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Post by Yasotay on Sept 8, 2024 1:58:32 GMT -5
I find the Marvel UK line interesting, though I've read almost none of it. I don't think I even knew it existed when I was reading comics as a child in the U.S. in the 1970s. I remember Captain Britain debuting in mainstream Marvel but thought he was a brand new character they had just come up with.
But I found out a few years ago that a lot of the later Marvel time travel and multiverse continuity points came from ideas introduced in Marvel UK. It made me wonder, is Marvel UK now considered part of mainstream continuity? Is it part of continuity but in its own distinct universe from the main 616 universe?
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 9, 2024 12:05:14 GMT -5
I think these are the missing covers:  I didn't know about this one! What's the contents? Reprints of the Delano/Davis material? |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 9, 2024 14:03:31 GMT -5
I didn't know about this one! What's the contents? Reprints of the Delano/Davis material? It seems to be colour reprints of black and white stories from Mighty World of Marvel #14-16 and Captain Britain monthly #1. link |
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Post by rich on Sept 9, 2024 16:05:11 GMT -5
Ooh, this is a tribute to the popular Optimus prime cover isn't it? |
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Post by rich on Sept 9, 2024 16:12:53 GMT -5
 Ok, a bit different to how I remembered, but quite similar. |
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Post by jason on Sept 9, 2024 22:21:16 GMT -5
Ok, a bit different to how I remembered, but quite similar. I know its because of the way his legs are positioned, but Optimus looks pretty short there. |
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Post by rich on Sept 10, 2024 2:32:04 GMT -5
I know its because of the way his legs are positioned, but Optimus looks pretty short there. I think the artist's decision to draw the wall in the background with such gigantic blocks is the problem! |
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UK comics were so cheap that I bought very few US comics until I was in secondary school- the US comics were 3x the price, often had fewer pages, had worse colouring and horrendous paper, and were much smaller. It was a no brainer!
