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Matthew Wilkie
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Remember being very excited there was to be another SW and then being disappointed by it when I read them
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Me too.
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Matthew Wilkie
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They have an Avengers title which has had many incarnations. It began in 2001 as AVENGERS UNITED:
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Anyone remember Avengers weekly from the 70s? I've got loads of them somewhere that I bought from friend's brother. They are in black and white but with a different shading effect used for each colour making some of that artwork almost indecipherable.
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Darren Ashmore
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So many memories! Had all the Marvel UK weeklies on order at the local newsagent. I had Mighty World of Marvel number one but missed issues 2 and 3 (although my friend Geoff had them) and does anyone remember MWOM actually being advertised on TV? It was so unlike anything I'd seen before in the old IPC comics (Lion, Valiant, etc.) it was like a culture shock to my 6 year old self. The titles changed so many times but kept the same numbering but we didn't care, the stories and characters were the thing. When we had our very own hero, Captain Britain, introduced in his own title, and in colour yet! Well, it was high times indeed. Very jarring when Dec Skinn introduced his 'UK' produced stories (really nice art though, early Steve Dillon for example) and quite the precursor to his later Warrior work. Like Bill Collins, I too enjoyed Rampage Monthly for the chance to catch up on The New X-Men stories I'd missed (UK distribution of US titles could be quite spotty) and the magazine was actually the first time I saw Alpha Flight in full. The last time I actively bought a MUK title was Daredevils back in the eighties, by then we had a LCS so there was less chance of missing any US issues. Daredevils was an excellent titles, early Alan Moore Captain Britain with amazing Alan Davis art, Miller's Daredevil reprint, prose Night Raven but also interesting and informative articles. Overall Marvel UK so informed my early life, it's probably impossible to measure the impact it had on me. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to walk down memory lane!!
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Robbie Parry
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ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN is another UK Marvel title. It began in 1995 - and is still going. Each issue reprints 3 Marvel US titles. Here's the first issue:
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Bill Collins
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Andrew Johnson, yes i rode from New Invention to Ashmore
Park then on to Fallings Park because the distribution
was so hit and miss, i knew certain newsagents would
have my fix! This would be around 1978/9 when i had an
after school/Saturday job and could afford to buy a lot
of comics and vinyl!
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Faiz Rehman
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I used to get "Spider-man and Hulk Weekly" delivered by my local newsagent every week. That one was a mainstay, even when Marvel UK made the ludicrous decision to drop reprinting the main Spidey US strips and switch to Super Spidey kiddie stuff...with Ewoks as a back up strip. Issue 666 was the last one we saw. I also got loads of the other reprint titles that came and went like Rampage, Incredible Hulk, Thor, X-Men, Big Ben and Captain America, until eventually we got a comic shop in South Wales that i could get to, to pick up the US titles. They were great books and really created a sense of community amongst the readers.
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Bill Collins
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Yes Faiz, those reprint titles were our gateway into the
actual U.S. titles, the comic shops were where i
eventually got the non-distributed titles! Our nearest
one was Birmingham, so i had to wait until i was old
enough to go there on the train!
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Rebecca Jansen
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At least you got badges... and other freebies... over here I had to pay for my own 'Phoenix Lives' button. :^)
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Bill Collins
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Or we got plastic aeroplane models that had nothing to
do with the superhero title!
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Darren Ashmore
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Yeah, and the adhesive tape they attached them with tore the covers to bits!Am I misremembering, BTW, or was one of the free gifts a Spider Skimmer? Like a round, red frisbee sort of thing?
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Robbie Moubert
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Lew Stringer's blog Blimey! has a number of features on British reprints including a three-part article called The Road to Marvel UK which might be of interest.
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 04 May 2018 at 8:46pm
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Bill Collins
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Darren, i don`t remember that, but i remember the `Space
Spinner` on the first 2000AD.
Interesting links Robbie!
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