But I don't want to bury it.
I want to let the whole world see it.
What is it?
It's my look back at what thrills Marvel UK were giving us in this week of 1976.
I do always wonder where super-heroes get those big hoops from for each other to jump through. I have never yet encountered a shop that sells them.
If Johnny Blaze models himself on Evel Knievel, he will, no doubt, crash upon landing and do himself a mischief.
It's the start of what was, at the time, the greatest super-hero epic I'd ever read, as everyone's favourite Kree captain makes the mistake of using the most over-powered hairdryer in history.
Unless I'm going completely mad, this story was reprinted in The Mighty World of Marvel some time later. It almost makes me glad I didn't used to read Dracula Lives, or I would've felt disappointed to see a quarter of my favourite comic devoted to a tale I'd already encountered.
Ghost Rider would appear to have a strip in both The Titans and Dracula Lives this week. Marvel UK clearly had a lot of faith in his ability to lure in readers.
Are we back on the big ships, with Tom Sutton, or is my memory playing tricks on me?
It's disappointing news for all Adam Warlock fans, as everyone's favourite golden grappler meets his maker.
Speaking of people popping their clogs, this is it, the issue that left me positively traumatised as a youth, as we get not just the death of Gwen Stacy but also the death of the Green Goblin.
To be honest, I still haven't recovered from it all.
And you can find out just how unrecovered I am, by reading my review of this issue, which can be found by clicking on this very link.
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Not over Gwen either. I think I actually cried at the time. What a sad git I was
No mention on the Titans cover of SHIELD or Captain Marvel. One of them must have been dropped for Ghost Rider. Anybody have any idea which?
It might've been SHIELD,which appeared in colour in Captain Britain in October but I suspect it was Mar-vell, skipping a couple of early Starlin stories and popping up again in MWOM.
I just checked my copy of Titans # 31 and it was Captain Marvel that was dropped. The Ghost Rider Story in Titans is his second story from Marvel Spotlight #6 so presumably they introduced him in Dracula Lives and then ran the series in Titans.
The question is....did Spider-Gwen survive the Marvel Secret Wars multiverse amalgamation?
If memory serves, that Dracula story was the one where he actually did get killed, or made more dead, at any rate, by a giant Chinese guy with a knife for an arm.
However, Frank Drake, Rachel van Helsing and the rest of the fearless vampire hunters revived him, in the belief that only an ambulatory Dracula could defeat the mind-boggling menace of Dr. Sun, who was at this point a brain in an aquarium case, but like all disembodied brains, wielded eerie mental powers.
The logic escapes me, but it was an action-packed comic.
M.P.
My biggest regret from those days is that I dropped Spider-Man Comics Weekly just a few weeks before it went "landscape" and, apart from the odd issue now and then, I didn't get Spider-Man regularly again till it had merged with Captain Britain and returned to the normal upright format - I was such a nitwit to miss Spidey's landscape period. This week's issue of The Titans also featured the FF story "A House There Was" where the Mole Man built that super-cool, futuristic house as part of his dastardly plan to turn the whole world blind...and then Reed & Sue Richards move in - D'OH !! But what a cool house it was - I so wanted to live there, minus the death-traps of course :D
Thanks to everyone for your comments. I feel far more informed than I did previously. :)
I never did understand why the Mole Man made his people-blinding device in the form of a house. I mean, did it have toilets in it and a kitchen and bedrooms? If so, why?
Plus, where did the estate agent get the keys from, in order to give them to the Fantastic Four, so that they could move in?
Steve, that's a darn good question. I can only assume he got them from a Moloid, posing as the original owner. The Mole People no doubt have their fingers in a lot of lucrative economic pies.
M.P.
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