Week Ending

Welcome True Believers Growing up in 1970s Britain was not without its 'Lord of The Flies' style charms, we may not have had the internet, games consoles, more than three TV channels and were still several years away from a Betamax VCR, but we did have all the fresh air you could eat and some pretty good weekly comics. Admittedly, most of these seemed to feature interchangeable delinquent schoolboys indulging in what could be reasonably described as proto hate-crimes or brave Tommies giving the Nazis what for, but in March 1975 I picked up my first Marvel UK comic, The Super-Heroes #2. Things were never quite the same after that. I collected Marvel's UK output with passion of a cocaine enthusiast at a music industry awards party, likewise I moved on to the pure US stuff when the hit was no longer enough. Nostalgia is a powerful mistress though, and about three years ago, while searching eBay for something else entirely, I decided to see what Marvel UK issues were still o