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Post by chaykinstevens on Jul 7, 2019 13:20:55 GMT -5
Okay, 1986. No idea what this is, but it looks good: I've not read Sectaurs either, but the American comic it's reprinting from was based on a line of action figures, and ran for eight issues. Bill Mantlo wrote it, and Mark Texiera drew the first two issues before Steve Geiger replaced him.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jul 7, 2019 13:28:06 GMT -5
Secret Wars II got a UK reprint. I can't find the cover for the first issue, but here's the cover for the 32nd issue: There was no Secret Wars II #1 in the UK. They just added II to the title with #32 and kept on going.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 13:31:13 GMT -5
Ah, I see. That explains why I couldn't find a cover. Thanks for the clarification!
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jul 7, 2019 13:48:34 GMT -5
And Secret Wars came to these shores: I never saw this one. I think it's supposed to have included some original material, including a story by Jim Shooter and Barry Kitson, in which Spidey fights a Skrull on the set of the Wide Awake Club and meets Tommy Boyd.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 7, 2019 13:53:24 GMT -5
I like the idea of a "cracking" competition! It's amazing all the things that came with British comics, you might have to go way back to '40s Captain Marvels that had a mini-comic attached to the front for something similar in the U.S.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 13:55:17 GMT -5
I can't believe how little the comics cost during my childhood.
Of course, I get it. An amount such as 32p was worth a lot more then. In the 80s, if my Nan or mother gave me £3-5, I could get a lot with it: a can of pop, a bag of crisps, a chocolate bar and maybe TWO comics. Nowadays comics can be £4-5+.
But it's still jarring to think of a time when comics were less than 40p.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 7, 2019 18:30:26 GMT -5
In the 80s, if my Nan or mother gave me £3-5, I could get a lot with it: a can of pop, a bag of crisps, a chocolate bar and maybe TWO comics. Rich kid! I used to 'ave 50p or £1 a week if I were lucky back in the early '80s. And I 'ad to live in the coal scuttle...and paint shoes on my naked feet! We 'ad it rough, I tell ya. But we was 'appy.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 7, 2019 18:55:23 GMT -5
Ooh, those who were living in luxury eh? Eight of us in newspaper in middle of t'road with a ha'penny btwixt! We didn't have gravity like kiddies today, if you wanted to stay on planet you had to grab hold of summat! Oxygen didn't just come to you either in them days, if you wanted a breath you had t'chase it down and shove it down yer lungs... but t'were grand! I'm kind of surprised at something being 27p, seems an odd amount, probably not very common?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 7, 2019 19:50:15 GMT -5
We ad to get up at 3 am, half an hour before I went to bead, eat lump of cold poison, work 26 hours a day at mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our grave singin Hallelujah!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 7, 2019 19:54:40 GMT -5
Okay, 1986. No idea what this is, but it looks good: I've not read Sectaurs either, but the American comic it's reprinting from was based on a line of action figures, and ran for eight issues. Bill Mantlo wrote it, and Mark Texiera drew the first two issues before Steve Geiger replaced him. Yep, another action figure line, from Coleco (who were better known for electronic games, such as football and baseball). A 5 episode animated mini-series was produced and the Marvel tie-in comic. This time, the series didn't outlive the toy line. The toys didn't sell particularly well (He-Man ruled the roost, as well as GI JOE and Transformers) and neither did the comic. You could find the entire run pretty easily in comic shops, for a pittance.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 7, 2019 23:20:40 GMT -5
For the Monty Python-impaired...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 4:09:02 GMT -5
Now we've reached 1987. Action Force, which ran for 50 issues, often had great covers: The Ewoks (we all love them, right?) got their own title: As did the Thundercats: This Marvel Omnibus, which I think reprinted 5 stories, is cool - and I wish I still had it: As you can see, although superhero titles were still a 'thing', Marvel UK was doing more licensed stuff. There was a wide variety of titles available, great for those of us following certain cartoons (one example).
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Post by Confessor on Jul 8, 2019 5:25:12 GMT -5
The Ewoks (we all love them, right?) got their own title: The Ewoks comic -- originally published under Marvel's Star Comics imprint in the U.S. -- was much better than you might believe. The art was by Warren Kremer, who had been a long time artist on Richie Rich and Casper: The Friendly Ghost, and the stories were actually rather enchanting. This Marvel Omnibus, which I think reprinted 5 stories, is cool - and I wish I still had it: I was bought this as a present back in the mid-80s. I forget precisely which stories were in it, but it was a good collection of somewhat contemporary Marvel comics.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 7:50:53 GMT -5
The only specific story I can remember being reprinted is The Incredible Hulk #314.
Could Captain America #291 (where he fights the Tumbler) have been a story, too?
I'm sure there was a Spidey, Iron Man, and X-Men story inside also.
I'd love to find it again.
Say, what happened to the Tumbler?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 8, 2019 11:34:42 GMT -5
The only specific story I can remember being reprinted is The Incredible Hulk #314. Could Captain America #291 (where he fights the Tumbler) have been a story, too? I'm sure there was a Spidey, Iron Man, and X-Men story inside also. I'd love to find it again. Say, what happened to the Tumbler? He fell ass over tea kettle.
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