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[porcupine48]

On 8/17/2019 at 7:33 AM, GARYSTAR said:

I can't comment about all of them because I only have a few issues but I can say that all of the issues I do have have rusty staples. I have a very nice Pow #1 which has rusty staples and even the otherwise near mint "spider-matic" gun has a rusty pin. It must be our UK climate.

That gun is FABTASTIC!

I just checked the copies I had close by and none of the half dozen or so I looked at have rust,including a Terrific #1,a few Spider)-Man weekly and MWOM.Rusty staples are sort of anathema to me,so you gang had me concerned.I guess I'm lucky to have found rust free copies

@batmiesta have you noticed rust in the past?

@boomtown congrats on your score.I'm in Canada,so I don't have the nostalgia you folks would in the UK for these,I just really like them

[Garystar]

4 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

I just checked the copies I had close by and none of the half dozen or so I looked at have rust,including a Terrific #1,a few Spider)-Man weekly and MWOM.Rusty staples are sort of anathema to me,so you gang had me concerned.I guess I'm lucky to have found rust free copies

Have they lived with you long in Canada? Perhaps it is a UK climate effect on poor quality staples, either that or you have a really good eye for spotting nice examples. My copy of Terrific #1 has nice white pages and nasty rusty staples. (Early MWOM and Spider-man Comics Weekly were glued so don't suffer from this problem).

[boomtown]

1 hour ago, GARYSTAR said:

Have they lived with you long in Canada? Perhaps it is a UK climate effect on poor quality staples, either that or you have a really good eye for spotting nice examples. My copy of Terrific #1 has nice white pages and nasty rusty staples. (Early MWOM and Spider-man Comics Weekly were glued so don't suffer from this problem).

That's what my complete run of Fantastics look like. The Terrifics are a little nicer as far as staple rust goes. Appreciate all the input.

[batmiesta]

I have never seen a copy of Terrific or Fantastic without rusty staples Jimmers, I think GARYSTAR may have a point about it being something to do with our climate in the UK, you are very lucky to have copies without rust. 

[porcupine48]

9 hours ago, GARYSTAR said:

Have they lived with you long in Canada? Perhaps it is a UK climate effect on poor quality staples, either that or you have a really good eye for spotting nice examples. My copy of Terrific #1 has nice white pages and nasty rusty staples. (Early MWOM and Spider-man Comics Weekly were glued so don't suffer from this problem).

 

The Terrific has only been a few years-I did get it from France,if that matters.I didn't pull out any Fantastic-see my sigline and that's half the mess of my comics  room.I just got lucky I think.Normally I wont pick stuff up if rust is disclosed,unless it's a really rare comic I'll likely not see again.I'll keep an eye open.

[boomtown]

Going through the collection of Terrific/Fantastic books I picked up and will share the early Barry Windsor Smith Back Cover Posters when I come across them. These were done while Smith was still a teenager, living in the UK. The story goes he was a family friend with the publisher or editor. Amazing how far he progressed in the 4 years between these posters and his Conan work!

More to come as I come across them!

 

[boomtown]

Throwing up a few shots of the early books from the sets.

[boomtown]

Back, with more fun from the UK!

I recently picked up a bulk lot of the Mighty World of Marvel Weeklies and found this classic Steranko cover. This cover was used for Hulk Annual #1 but they had Marie Severin redraw the Hulks head because Steranko's wasn't acceptable. Here we get the cover as Steranko intended. Those zany UK guys removed the bottom lettering "Battles the Inhumans" and replaced with "Battles the INHERITOR" so they could run the cover with the Hulk #149 story.

It's still worth it just to see the Steranko artwork as intended.

[batmiesta]

They also brought it out as a full size sew on patch in 1975. 

 

[batmiesta]

And a Spider-man one, shown here with a regular sized book to give some idea of the size.

[boomtown]

2 hours ago, batmiesta said:

And a Spider-man one, shown here with a regular sized book to give some idea of the size.

Yeah, I saw an advertisement for the ptches while I was going through a collection I bought. I like the Hulk one much better than the Spider-Man.

[boomtown]

Here's another unique idea from Marvel UK. Used the Cover image on Mighty World of Marvel #154 and then again on Mighty World of marvel 159. Considering the book was published weekly, little more than a month had passed between usages. At least they colored it a little differently.

[batmiesta]

53 minutes ago, boomtown said:

Yeah, I saw an advertisement for the ptches while I was going through a collection I bought. I like the Hulk one much better than the Spider-Man.

It's harder to find too. 

[Comicopolis]

19 hours ago, boomtown said:

Here's another unique idea from Marvel UK. Used the Cover image on Mighty World of Marvel #154 and then again on Mighty World of marvel 159. Considering the book was published weekly, little more than a month had passed between usages. At least they colored it a little differently.

That's weird. I wonder if any of the readers noticed at the time.

[Comicopolis]

[OtherEric]

What few I have are a little bit later.  The 391 is another "get the high demand cover much cheaper" example, although not as impressive as the 198.  I've got the 1st 20 issues of Hulk comic somewhere as well, may be able to scan a few of those.  Gotta love Night Raven and some early Steve Dillon art on Nick Fury...

[batmiesta]

10 hours ago, Comicopolis said:

Have you just bought these Andrew? They are starting to fetch good money in nice shape and your 198 looks particularly nice.

[Comicopolis]

50 minutes ago, batmiesta said:

Have you just bought these Andrew? They are starting to fetch good money in nice shape and your 198 looks particularly nice.

Think I bought them off Ebay about ten years ago.

[Chaykin Stevens]

On 2/22/2020 at 10:19 PM, boomtown said:

Here's another unique idea from Marvel UK. Used the Cover image on Mighty World of Marvel #154 and then again on Mighty World of marvel 159. Considering the book was published weekly, little more than a month had passed between usages. At least they colored it a little differently.

The GCD entry for MWOM #159 says " Cover was used only five issues earlier so this must have been a production error." I think the Tiger Shark story ran in #158-9, so the error would have been using the cover for #154.

[Chaykin Stevens]

On 6/23/2020 at 2:05 AM, Comicopolis said:

Nice to see Trimpe's original version of a classic cover without Romita's modifications.