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Mighty World of Marvel.
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31 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

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I'm in the US also.

I would pick up the occasional UK imprint every now and then and became interested in completing a set of Mighty World of Marvel. Prices from the US retailers was going to cost me an arm and leg so I started watching the Ebay UK site. After winning a handful of auctions for cheap, I realized that the shipping was going to eat me up. So then I started ordering large bulk lots from the UK. I've completed my Mighty World of Marvel set and started focusing on the FANTASTIC and TERRIFIC runs from the 1960s. I had almost put together complete sets when I came across a guy selling the complete runs from a single collector. Now I almost have 2 complete sets! Always on the lookout on Ebay UK for the huge lots.

The Fantastic/Terrific books used terrible quality staples and it's almost impossible to find these things without some type of rust accumulation. It really bothered me for awhile, but after talking with some collectors in the UK, they say that the vast majority are like that. It's taken me back to when I collected to collect, not overly worried about high grade books only. It's a lot of fun!

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4 minutes ago, boomtown said:

I'm in the US also.

I would pick up the occasional UK imprint every now and then and became interested in completing a set of Mighty World of Marvel. Prices from the US retailers was going to cost me an arm and leg so I started watching the Ebay UK site. After winning a handful of auctions for cheap, I realized that the shipping was going to eat me up. So then I started ordering large bulk lots from the UK. I've completed my Mighty World of Marvel set and started focusing on the FANTASTIC and TERRIFIC runs from the 1960s. I had almost put together complete sets when I came across a guy selling the complete runs from a single collector. Now I almost have 2 complete sets! Always on the lookout on Ebay UK for the huge lots.

The Fantastic/Terrific books used terrible quality staples and it's almost impossible to find these things without some type of rust accumulation. It really bothered me for awhile, but after talking with some collectors in the UK, they say that the vast majority are like that. It's taken me back to when I collected to collect, not overly worried about high grade books only. It's a lot of fun!

I've pretty much completed the runs I want at the moment on the UK books.  What I've got is the complete Night Raven, and the complete Alan Davis Captain Britain runs.  Those overlap a LOT, and between them cover most of Alan Moore's major work for Marvel UK as well.

I only went with the late issues of Mighty World of Marvel, after it became Marvel Super-Heroes, but I've got 377-397 (last issue) complete.  It really is a lot of fun!

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17 hours ago, boomtown said:

Came across another batch of early Barry Smith Pin-Ups back from when he was still a teen in the UK. These are from the Fantastic Weekly put out by the Oldham Press in 1967/68, and were used for the back covers. No Smith Collectors Collection is complete without these classics!

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I never realised these were done by BWS. 

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34 minutes ago, batmiesta said:

I never realised these were done by BWS. 

Yeah, him and Steve Parkhouse did quite a few for both Fantastic and Terrific. There are multiple lists out there but most are incomplete as Smith doesn't really post them on his list of professional credits. He was really hit or miss on a bunch of these, the Thor really kind of showed his developing style, while Yagg the Slayer and Blob look kind of rough. It looks like he was 17 or 18 when he cranked most of these out. The Chameleon one looks more like the work Parkhouse was doing back then but it was on one of the lists I found so I included it. 

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On 8/24/2020 at 2:29 PM, Garystar said:

Here's a UK oddity, From SMASH #38 October 1966. 

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The colouring on that puts me in mind of the old Bazooka Joe bubble gum comics.

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