Mighty World Of Marvel...Comics UK Style

[Blue Meanie]

Got my first batch of Mighty World Of Marvels and Titans UK Comics...Clem, I see what you mean about the Titans books. There are a lot of pages with "Bullpen" artists either doing a new splash page so the book evens up in it's side by side pages inside or it's Bullpen artists re-imagining or lightboxing some original Marvel pages. I did find the Titans centerspread posters interesting. There's a nice Vision done by Nasser and Adams in one of the books.

I have a few earlier issues of Mighty World Of Marvel where the green ink really does add to the black and white pages. Especially in the Hulk stories. I think moving forward with collecting these I think I will stick to the regular books and stay away from the landscape books like Titans. Was Titans the only book to do landscape style books??

[Blue Meanie]

Really have gotten into these UK Comics...and I am not a fan of black and white books. The covers are really where it's at with these books. It also helps that the interior art is closer to the original 2-up art marvel artists submitted for the comic books back in the day. Trying to figure out couple of the covers and these 2 are my favorites so far of the books I've gotten:



The firs is a re-imagining of Hulk 190:



The second might actually be 2 different artists. The bottom with Nick Fury looks to be Jim Starlin....but I can't figure out who the top part might be. Anyone have ideas on who may have done these covers? I can throw some names out there that are associated with having done covers for Marvel UK:

Pablo Marcos
Keith Pollard
Rich Buckler
Mike Esposito
John Romita
Larry Lieber
Herb Trimpe
Bob Budiansky
Ed Hanniagan

That's all the names I have gotten so far after having done a little research.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Hey Berto, you'll probably want to check out Back Issue #63 when it ships in March. Big cover feature on Marvel UK.

http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main...oducts_id=1069

Chris

[Blue Meanie]

Thanks Chris. Going to my comic store today. I'll check and see if he can still order it. I haven't gotten a back issue in a long time. I try to buy them when I go into Manhattan every couple of months....either for a comic show or just to putz around. BTW, I actually have one of the issues of "Titans" that the fold out poster comes from. I was just about to see if I could find the other issues that the foldout poster was in...now I don't have to. Looks like Ron Wilson and Pablo Marcos were THE guys when it came to Marvel UK. What sucks is that I have been eyeing a couple of Marvel UK covers, original art wise, and when this issue comes out I have a feeling I will see a spike in prices on those covers. Thanks for the tip Chris.

[clemso]

Its nice to know someone is appreciating these and that the not all going to recycling.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Just FYI, Ron Wilson was also the long-time artist on Marvel Two-In-One, the Thing's team-up title.

Chris

[Blue Meanie]

Its nice to know someone is appreciating these and that the not all going to recycling.

Like I said before this is as close as readers are going to get to the 2-up art. Original comic art back in the day was 11 x 17 or larger. Comic size of the day was 6 3/4 X 10 1/4. These UK comics are 8.50 X 11.25. Only recently has Marvel done these books, like the Romita Spiderman book, that come close to the original art size. I love these British Comics. Can't wait to read the articles in Back Issue.