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As someone who grew up on MWOM, i concur. I saw the early Marvel universe form before my very eyes in black and white Kirby/Ditko line art and some times red or green shading. It was a while before i read my first American color comic book. it did take some getting used to. John Buscema drew the cover to the 1st issue of Might World of Marvel and at one time I had bought and owned the original cover art. Ah those were the days. -
Mighty World Of Marvel...Comics UK Style
Recently I've been looking into the British Comics from the 70's. The Annuals looked like something I would be interested in...mainly because they are hardcovers and the art on the covers were amazing. Then I started looking at some of the weekly comics. I know that they are reprints of the US comics...but some of the advantages are better covers and also I think that some of the comics are Magazine sized. More closer to the original art. The black and white interiors really doesn't bother me as much as it may have about 15 or 20 years ago. Learning that Starlin was a cover artist for a substantial amount of covers. As was a couple of other Marvel Bullpen artists like Ron Wilson, Keith Pollard, and Pablo Marcos. Here's just one example of a really nice cover from a UK/British Weekly:
A lot of stock covers were used but ones like the one above and about 50 % of the others were original covers...either taken from a different perspective of the original cover...or a completely new drawing. I know that if I start collecting the UK weekly comics it's going to be a slog. There are about 10 or 15 titles besides the Mighty World Of Marvel. If anyone wants to just look at some nice covers here is a link to the GCD comic database:
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