Week Ending

  It might well be that awful no-man's land between Christmas and New Year during the most depressing year since the invention of the internet, but for our purposes it is November 1973, a time when being locked in your house with nothing to do but read comics would have been pretty cool actually. Mighty World of Marvel #59 With the contents of the comic working through a king-size Hulk issue, Ron Wilson and Mike Esposito are going to be busy over the next few weeks knocking up new covers for MWOM. It is a nice effort, but would it have killed anyone to give the Fantastic Four a cover? What was Marvel UK's problem with Marvel's first family anyway? The Incredible Hulk: The Evil Maximus Does! Reprinting The Incredible Hulk Special #1 I have probably missed others, but I think we see our first specially commissioned splash page in this story, even if it is just a paste up of other panels and a freshly drawn Hulk. It probably didn't seem important at the time, but some cred

  After a lackluster showing last week, will Marvel UK give us three titles packed to the gills with quality superhero action and drama? Would it have mattered to us as kids if they didn't? I'm reasonably certain I would have paid for any old rubbish they churned out, and been jolly grateful for it. Mighty World of Marvel #58 Now, here is a bizarre choice for a cover. Not that there is anything wrong with this offering from Ron Wilson and either Mike Esposito or John Tartaglione, it is a damn fine effort, well rendered with plenty of drama, but they had the option to use the iconic 1968 Jim Steranko/Marie Severin original. A choice made even more baffling by the fact that a reworked version of it will grace the cover of MWOM not long from now. The Incredible Hulk: A Refuge Divided! Reprinting The Incredible Hulk Special #1 This is one of those Hulk stories that feels like it is out of sequence, a feeling that is reinforced by a return to the creative lineup of Gary Friedrich an