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A nice bit of Curt Vile (Mr Moore) self deprecation 

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/saga-of-the-swamp-thing-1st-john-constantine-appearance/     Well worth a read for a bit of truth 

Hi, having no inside knowledge of working on an illustration I did ask a few professionals on a site about U.K. covers having more artwork on them like ASM 96. A few reply’s but generally the consensus was they would of had illustrators add on . Kurt Busiek and others remarking that Kane Wouldnt have done the brickwork in the different style above the cops head .  (Another reply)   British weeklies reprinted half a comic book's worth of stories, which required twice the number of covers per American issue. Hence they had a crew who drew covers (sometimes from scratch, other times from splash panels or specific panels in the issue). They also did tweaking on those covers they used so that they would fit to the slightly different format. Which is the case here. The awkward blank area between the cop's legs is not something Kane would have left as such.  

I’ll save that for another night !....my eyes have started bleeding 🤣👍

9 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

. The 'PD' phrase is banned here by the way. We prefer 'dish cloth' 

Sorry about the PD slip of the tongue....I thought dish cloth only applies to DC pennies from heaven 

On 7/28/2019 at 9:01 PM, Liza761 said:

thanks guys I'm feeling really a bit silly around now, but knowledge is power hmmm ... informative and answered my question i like knowing these things as i now have a new site ( used Toby link ) for researching  any other of my comics rather than hassling you guys again thank you. 

It’s a pleasure to answer your post ,as you say, knowledge is power and I’m a newbie to this site so it’s great to spread the knowledge 👍

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=464311

They were printed on the same press as the US cent copies,either at the start or the end of the run .They would change one of the print plates to put the UK pence price on then they would be put on a boat and shipped to the U.K.  Eventually marvel also changed the header to marvel all colour comics so that they could be seen to be the real deal as opposed to the U.K. reprints which were in black and white. About 5 to 10 percent of the run would have been pence copies

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/pence-price-variant-issue-guide-marvel-dc/

I don’t know if it’s too late but while your in the uk try looking for old copies of the music magazine ‘Sounds’ which had a strip by Curt vile which was a pseudonym for Alan Moore