tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post5128962563351624374..comments2024-03-28T21:17:32.757+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: November 9th, 1977 - Marvel UK, 40 years ago this week.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-16124524822638056072017-11-10T18:53:14.627+00:002017-11-10T18:53:14.627+00:00That's the one Steve, with the big reveal on t...That's the one Steve, with the big reveal on the last page of the comic.<br /><br />But as we're in the world of Steve Does Comics and only looking at the covers I thought I''d better keep schtum for another week.dangermash aka The Artistic Actuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15669793446608643884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-54399728970383553752017-11-10T18:34:20.813+00:002017-11-10T18:34:20.813+00:00Thanks for the Spidey info, dangermash. I do remem...Thanks for the Spidey info, dangermash. I do remember that cliffhanger very clearly, and Spidey's bewilderment when it wasn't who he'd thought it was.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-18147533251146650952017-11-10T12:42:03.827+00:002017-11-10T12:42:03.827+00:00Thanks Tim. Now I've seen that I can't un...Thanks Tim. Now I've seen that I can't unsee it.<br /><br />As for the Spider-Man story, it's the second half of ASM #169. In the first half, he had the scene with JJJ and the clone photos. In the second half he's swinging around town and finds the bunch of bank robbers that you see on the cover. In the last panel they're revealed to be working for this huge guy with a cigarette holder, who can only be...dangermash aka The Artistic Actuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15669793446608643884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-18733362805625318932017-11-10T10:26:30.189+00:002017-11-10T10:26:30.189+00:00I do hope I'm not the only one to notice this ...I do hope I'm not the only one to notice this but doesn't that insanely muscular Spider-Man cover kinda draw your eye to and highlight his 'Ken-doll area'?Timothy Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01455609500395912042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-32272677271005688432017-11-09T23:20:30.557+00:002017-11-09T23:20:30.557+00:00Timothy, apart from in the early days, they either...Timothy, apart from in the early days, they either came out on Wednesday or Thursday. I'm not totally sure which it was. Their cover date was the following Wednesday but whether that meant they were replaced on the shelves at the start of Wednesday or at the end of it, I don't know.<br /><br />TC, thanks for the Howling Commandos info.<br /><br />Dougie, thanks for the Maha Yogi info.<br /><br />Sean, I know that some of the Planet of the Apes stories were, "reprinted," in Britain before they were published in America. I'd also assume that, by the time of the Dez Skinn revolution, a number of strips (like Spider-Man and the Hulk) must have pretty much caught up with the originals.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-78252716699813371462017-11-09T23:07:44.658+00:002017-11-09T23:07:44.658+00:00I recall getting one of the issues of MTU with the...I recall getting one of the issues of MTU with the Captain Britain crossover at a newsagent earlyish in '78. Given the time lag in sale dates of US monthlies, publication in Super Spider-Man must have been more or less simultaneous. <br />Wonder if there were any other examples of that with Marvel UK. Not counting film adaptations, of course.<br /><br />-seanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-11738244189267006142017-11-09T22:16:27.744+00:002017-11-09T22:16:27.744+00:00The Maha Yogi was the mutant known previously as T...The Maha Yogi was the mutant known previously as The Warlock and Merlin in a couple of X-Men and Thor stories. I would have liked him to be Captain Britain's arch enemy.Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-25295827989605470502017-11-09T19:53:09.356+00:002017-11-09T19:53:09.356+00:00The first (maybe only) Howling Commando to be KIA ...The first (maybe only) Howling Commando to be KIA was Private "Junior" Juniper, the youngest soldier in the squad, in Sgt. Fury #4 (November 1963). In fact, that may have been the first continuing character in a Silver Age comic series to be killed off. <br /><br />The first couple of issues of Sgt. Fury had treated WWII like a romp, with the Howlers acting more like superheroes than soldiers. The deaths of Junior, and of Fury's love interest Pamela Hawley in issue #18, were obviously intended to inject some realism into the series. <br /><br />Their company commander, Captain Sam Sawyer, was killed in a 1980's issue of Captain America, in a story set in the present time. TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686814973788356726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-90149727072405360562017-11-09T19:51:50.784+00:002017-11-09T19:51:50.784+00:00Something that's been bugging me, what day did...Something that's been bugging me, what day did the UK weeklies hit the newsagents? I seem to recall it being on Thursdays but also remember often going in the day before because they sometimes went out early. That said, about this period of the 70s I was probably having to check every day due to what seemed like endless industrial-action by the ports, distributors or National Union of Grumpy Newsagent Ladies.Timothy Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01455609500395912042noreply@blogger.com