Week Ending

What constitutes a 'good' week in Marvel UK on the blog is purely subjective. Despite the best efforts of the creative team behind these weeklies in 1974, if I'm having a bad day, I will probably be unfairly harsh on these innocent comics. However, the reverse is also true, I have had a cracking week and as a result have found myself far more open to the waves of nostalgic joy issuing from their newsprint pages as a result. Swings and roundabouts. Mighty World of Marvel #81 Is it just me, or is this Ed Hannigan/Pablo Marcos cover giving off a strong '100th' issue vibe? Nice to see the FF back on the cover, even if they had to experience a two week break in order to be deemed worthy of such an honour. It may not be the greatest offering from an artistic perspective, but tell me you wouldn't have snatched this straight off the newsagents shelves? The Incredible Hulk: The Rhino Says No! Reprinting The Incredible Hulk #124 Readers of a certai

Quite the mixed bag of covers this week a reprint of a reprint for SMCW, The Avengers get a UK exclusive effort that makes you wonder what was up with the original options, but it is MWOM that is the clear winner, the Hulk, the Leader and a Murder Module, who could ask for more? Mighty World of Marvel #80 While I am familiar with the Murder Module from later in the Hulk's run, I had no idea that it had made this earlier appearance. Herb Trimpe takes a fundamentally silly concept and makes it look pretty cool for this cover. The Incredible Hulk: No More The Monster! Reprinting The Incredible Hulk #123 After temporarily taking down the Hulk, Reed Richards working with notes from Bruce 89 gets out his newest mad scientist equipment to cure the Hulk of his Hulkiness. Which takes the dramatic route of vaporising him before reassembling his component atoms. You can start to see why Ben Grimm gets a little cynical whenever Reed comes up with his latest cure for the