The Marvel Lucky Bag - May 1979.

As I sit typing these awesome words, I'm listening to ELO's 1981 album Time on YouTube. The way I remember things, I'm pretty sure it was viewed, back then, as a catastrophic shark-jump by the band.

Which is odd because I have to say I'm quite enjoying it. The production's more restrained than we're used to and there's a whole lot less of the highly silly backing vocals that were ELO's Achilles heel for some of us.

But is this the only thing we've been wrong about? Does it mean the world has, likewise, been too harsh on Marvel Comics' less appreciated titles that I'm about to look at in the list below? Has the lack of love for them been an injustice? Are they, in fact, the very finest books the world of Comicdom had to offer at that time?

There's only one way to find out.

Godzilla and Devil Dinosaur team up to tackle some bad guys or other in prehistoric times; a sequence of events which leads to Godzy reappearing in the 20th Century - and at full size!

Baron Blood's on the loose again - and under the control of a Japanese woman who's out to create a team made up of all the Invaders' greatest enemies.

Admittedly, "Great," is a relative term...

"Make way, World -- Nova's smashing thru!"

He's smashing through into oblivion - because this is his last issue.

It's a story which leads into this month's Fantastic Four tale, as our motley crew of super-doers, including Nova, Dr Sun, the Sphinx, a man with a diamond for a head, a man who looks like the Flash, and some other bloke, find themselves in the Skrull's galaxy, and having to wage war on those cosmic ne'er-do-wells, in order to get whatever it is they're after there.

Spidey and Satana team up to rescue Dr Strange who's been turned into a werewolf by someone or other.

I don't want to give away any spoilers but Satana's dead by the tale's climax.

I suspect she won't stay dead.

We get a magnificent magazine featuring the Hulk's meeting with Klaatu, and his first encounter with Dr Doom who, if I remember correctly, wants to use him to deliver an atom bomb to a rival country.

If Nova's feeling down about the loss of his book, he should at least take comfort from the fact he's not alone, because Red Sonja's also experiencing her final issue.

As well as vampires, I believe she gets to fight a man made of vegetable matter.

Holy coincidences, Batman! Just the other day, on here, I was opining on the prospect of the Red Skull, Hate-Monger, Sons of the Serpent and Dr Faustus teaming up to start a race war.

And what do you know? This very issue features the Red Skull and Hatey teaming up to relaunch the Third Reich.

I predict it won't be long before they're trying to kill each other.