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It was FF 58. I remember Doc Doom stealing surfers power and battling FF. Must have been one hell of a comic for me to remember it so vividly. 

Sorry I’ve stopped now. One of the first Marvels I read was what I now know to be FF#58 and was in a Double Double comic. I’d like to get it again out of nostalgia but I can’t remember any other issues in the volume and the random nature of DDC  compilation its proving very difficult. 

2 minutes ago, shadroch said:

I'd  be surprised that  Marvel or its Dubious Competition would license someone to co-mingle the two companies books. 

I would be too, which, has Marwood has said, they are often described here as unauthorised.

Even many of us UK collectors would like to know more about the inner workings and the agreements the UK distributor T&P had with Marvel and the other US comic publishers. 

9 minutes ago, shadroch said:

So these are unauthorized pirate editions, for lack of a better term. My only copy is slabbed and I don't want to break it out as it is unusual in itself, being a blue label that is missing a page.

 

 

Possibly. The interiors are four genuine, unaltered comics. However ripping off the covers, binding four such comics under a new cover and selling in the new format may have been an infringement. 
There again the UK distributor, Thorpe & Porter, may have had licence from DC and Marvel to do with and sell the original comics in whatever format he wanted in UK. 

1 hour ago, shadroch said:

So the interiors are unsold copies of American comics? The insides are in color? Isn't that unusual for British comics of that time. 

These are American comics that were imported into and went on sale in UK. Some would have gone unsold in shops and returned to UK distributor, who then ripped off covers and, four at a time, bound them together with a new cover and offered them again for sale in UK. 

1 minute ago, Spider-Variant said:

 In the reprints, sometimes Tony would add his famous "backgrounds by Mort", where in the original it didn't exist.  So, if I used Marvel Essential or Marvel Masterworks, I would have to know where they got the art to see if it was truly there

Thanks, I didn’t realise that about reprints, I had intended to use essentials but sounds like that’s not going to give the correct answer. 

Later Marvels tended to have posters as free gifts. Conan #1 had this variation of the Adams poster which could be bought via comics of the same era. 

34 minutes ago, TellshiarMarvelmaniaCollector said:

This wasn't a free gift, but I had never seen one before so bought it. The 1972 ad must have been for a different shirt than the one advertised.

 

I don’t know for certain but I suspect the T-shirt you have is the one you would get from the add you have shown (may 1973). I have seen your T-shirt before but never the one in the advert (based on MMMS sweatshirt). For me the persuader is the address label on yours is the order form in the comic. That months Mighty World Of Marvel had a yellow order form exactly as address label on your envelope. 

Possibly of interest the original MMMS hulk sweatshirt was given away in UK to persons who wrote a letter to Smash comic. Editorial also says they are looking to similar for Wham comic and Thing sweatshirt. 

12 minutes ago, TellshiarMarvelmaniaCollector said:

I just got this poster from 1972. I am not sure how rare it is compared to other free gifts, but I know one had to destroy (clipping stamps from pages) 10 comics to get it.

Hi lynch, the poster is quite rare even in UK, about one a year turns up on eBay UK. Did you buy this recently from UK? One was sold recently, i was debating buying it but was still thinking when it sold. The stamps you had to cut out are our version of MVS. 

When reading Spider-Man’s of the era I like trying to spot the “backgrounds by Mortellaro”. They continued after Romita stopped drawing and some artists had a playful spin on this. I see this one has a “backgrounds by Hunt”

If one doesn’t exist Someday I’m going to do a list of all the backgrounds by..... Did Tony M work with Romita on any other titles of the era? I vaguely recall looking at Cap America for any name dropping and not finding any. 

One hour and 30 seconds! Would have been nice to crack the hour. 

I will be starting at 10.20 GMT. After my warm up with a similar puzzle I feel now knowing the dimensions and table needed I can break the hour barrier. 

As a kid Marvels were hard to find where I lived so would get quite a few of mine on day trips or holiday. If a paper shop didn’t have Marvels I would settle for Alan Class. Got this one on holiday in Isle of Wight (and a “real” Daredevil #80);

inside;

1 hour ago, MARVELous Fan said:

I have a question which I’m hoping one of you can answer for me. I was born in April 1964, and would love to celebrate that by buying a copy of ASM 11 (2nd Doc Ock) which, in the US, was published in that month/year. On the US cover you can clearly see the box which has 11 in it, followed underneath by the abbreviation for April. On the UK edition box it just says 11 and there is a small blank white space underneath it.

Were all early UK editions printed that way because Marvel in the US, having shipped their UK comics by sea, couldn’t guarantee that their editions could hit the newsagents in the same month as their US counterparts? 

So, if I owned a UK ASM 11 (without the April month wording), can I be 100% sure that this issue did hit the newsagents in April 1964 or, because of the sea shipping time, did all Marvel UK editions hit the newsagents a month + behind the US editions? 

As marwood says until 1965 UKPVs were printed without a date, as you surmised because of shipping time they didn’t want to appear “out of date” when they arrived in UK.
Amazing Spider-Man #11 was released in US in January 1964 and thinking is at that time Marvels took about 3 months to be on sale in UK, so whilst can’t be 100% certain #11 would be on sale in UK In April it probably would have been. If you’re looking for a book on sale in UK in April I too would go for #11.
Again as Marwood has said some collectors like to get a comic stamped with an arrival date of their birthday month, however these are arrival dates for US not UK. If you wanted to get an April 1964 arrival date you would be looking at a cents spidey #14   - a very expensive book. 

20 hours ago, mikeyc67 said:

There are 130 Marvel superhero covers. I'm missing 16.

...and of course all the hidden gems;

inside;

inside;

I saved this link someone posted previously, probably robot;

https://archive.org/details/photo-journal-guide-to-alan-class-comics/page/2/mode/2up

Cap America only appeared on covers as part of Avengers but a few of his TOS stories are included in non-marvel cover issues. 

On 4/27/2021 at 9:05 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

We should put together a list of high profile Marvel characters on Alan covers and see who else is conspicuous by their absence. 

Struggling to think of any 60’s superhero characters who didn’t appear. Nearest I can think of - Submariner who I believe only appeared in creepy worlds reprints of FF#4 and 6. 

Secrets of the Unknown #122, is this the only appearance of the Hulk in an Alan Class?;

9 minutes ago, themagicrobot said:

. Perhaps we might live to see Rob's book about the History of Marvel UK if it is published in the next few years.

How long has this been in progress - must be 20 years? I’d forgot all about it, be interesting to read latest updates. I recall identifying a few pages of source material back in the days of Comics International.  

Just posted this in Alan Class thread but appropriate here and some people may be interested. Out of this World #17, a UK reprint compilation;

Nothing remarkable from cover but nice surprise inside;

This is my copy Out Of This World #17;

and as Marwood says nice surprise inside;

I’m sure until recently this one sat unwanted in many UK dealers 10p boxes;

There is a nice surprise inside;

8 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Thanks guys, glad you liked it.

I tried. This was my first Alan Class. Got it on a trip to Cardiff, Wales visiting relatives. I had just started collecting Marvels and shop had no American comics so I bought this. Was blown away by Wally Wood art, reprint DD #5. 

Just realised I did the wrong puzzle ....   I’ll have a go at the competition one and post results. Still it is Ross so appropriate for this thread. 

.... of course jigsaws are cut different even those with same picture so mine is probably a lot harder than @Get Marwood & I’s.