But were Marvel UK serving up anything drawn by him on this day of exactly forty years ago - way back when the jazzy one was a mere forty five years old?
There's only one way to find out.
And blow me down if we don't get a Spider-Man cover by that very artist, in conjunction with Marie Severin, as Electro tangles with our hero in a TV studio.
The Grim Reaper's causing trouble for the Panther on a cover that's a noticeable cut above the ones that were normally commissioned for the UK mags.
Jason and Alexander clearly in need of a trip to the opticians.
The Leader's plot to replace the American government with robots continues apace.
For some reason, I can never look at this cover without expecting everyone concerned to burst into a song from The Sound of Music.
Sadly the Spider-man story wasn't drawn by the amazing Mr Romita either (art was by Jim Mooney)
ReplyDeleteSteve, do you know of anywhere on line where I could view all of the back covers of these comics? I am after images of all the random Apes posters that sometimes cropped up on the OTHER Marvel weeklies.
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John, I'm not sure. Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive has scans of the comics but I don't know if they include the back covers. It can be found at the following address: http://pota.goatley.com/marvel_uk.html
ReplyDeleteI've just checked and it looks like it does.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Steve, I know Hunter's site has POTA weekly on it, but it's the Apes posters on the backs of the OTHER weeklies ( different ones!) that I'm after now.
ReplyDeleteAh. In that case, I don't know where those might be found. I've just tried Googling, "Mighty World of Marvel back cover," and, "Spider-Man Comics Weekly back cover," but it didn't produce anything useful in that department.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall that Avengers cover at all! Weird. Our village newsagent may have missed out on that issue.
ReplyDeleteAnd the issue before it never appeared at our local newsagents. I do wonder where those missing issues disappeared to.
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