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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2018 20:52:37 GMT
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had not thought of that!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 12, 2019 7:31:02 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 12, 2019 8:07:52 GMT
Yes.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 12, 2019 20:05:06 GMT
Crash has now been purchased digitally.
Life is good, now DC get me Batman; Digital Justice sorted out!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 4, 2020 18:18:18 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 4, 2020 18:45:25 GMT
Agreed.
Thinking caps on folks!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 4, 2020 19:06:05 GMT
Agreed. Thinking caps on folks! Bozo has put his thinking cap on. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 12, 2021 20:58:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 12, 2021 21:41:06 GMT
Machine Man now takes place in the past!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 15, 2021 2:37:09 GMT
It's just not right.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 15, 2021 9:51:38 GMT
And Iron Man 2020 is just Iron Man Of Last Year.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 13, 2021 22:35:56 GMT
Aha! a quick eBay search and I see the first few issues came with stickers. The tank one with issue one used to be on the wardrobe in my old bedroom. I must have had issue one then. Interesting. That memory would have laid undisturbed were it not for this thread! I may have to buy one of those. Phil is costing me money again. Phil has indeed cost me money. I picked up the first issue of this from a recent auction, complete with sticker. Amazing to see one again. I'm going to enjoy seeing if I can remember any of the contents because it's only the sticker that I can remember at the moment. I'd have been six when this was printed, six months after I first started being bought Doctor Who Weekly by my dad and two years before The Eagle relaunched, which are the only benchmarks in my early years of comic reading that I can put this with. Very odd feeling looking at it!  Picked up a near full run of this comic, 36 of 37 issues. It's a purely reprint title, seventies marvel stuff (bar a humour strip by Quinn and Howett), but since picking up issue one I've had a hankering to get the rest. Need to find the missing one. It was merged into Future Tense when it finished, but Rom was the only strip that moved over. Might need to look into getting those too. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 13, 2021 22:45:58 GMT
Phil needs these.
Next time you pop up can you bring these with you so I can have a peak and work out which Rom is where?
Is this your first encounter with Rom?
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 14, 2021 21:33:13 GMT
Sure, no problem. Yes it is. I don't think I've read any. Not that there's a huge number of issues reprinted here. Looks like four pages an issue.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 14, 2021 21:50:33 GMT
Once again I rage at the heavens over a lack of reprint volumes of ROM.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 15, 2022 20:06:47 GMT
Trying to explain the Wulf reprints in Forces in Combat on the weekly Zoom doesn't really do them justice - this is an example from 1959:  |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 27, 2022 19:36:26 GMT
Picked up a copy of Forces in Combat #2 to complete the set I bought previously. It was slightly overpriced, but I was delighted to find its free gift sticker tucked between two pages towards the back. So mint it makes me think it's never been noticed. The seller probably didn't realise it was there because it wasn't mentioned on the auction. That means I have a full set of issues, none of which have newsagent markings or missing pages, and all three free gifts. Happy with that.
The reading continues apace, issue #30 tonight. There's some cracking stuff in this.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 27, 2022 20:31:21 GMT
Does Rebellion own FORCES IN COMBAT.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 27, 2022 20:35:36 GMT
NO.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 27, 2022 20:44:01 GMT
No, it's a Marvel mag. All Marvel reprints. I'm cataloguing the contents so I'll post a complete list on Sunday when I get to the end.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 27, 2022 21:48:26 GMT
Booooo.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 1, 2022 20:07:31 GMT
Finished! All 37 read cover to cover. Including Machine Man, again. Very enjoyable. Soon as I get a chance, I'll post a write-up of its life story.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2022 21:12:11 GMT
Any of the Kirby Machine Man in there or is it all Ditko?
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 27, 2022 22:43:34 GMT
Someone needs to read the article I wrote posted in the Marvel UK thread :)
It's just Ditko, MM issues 10-19.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2022 22:47:16 GMT
Someone should have posted a link here as well!  I don't mind the Ditko Machine Man stuff myself, but clearly a Marvel UK office favourite! |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 27, 2022 23:06:53 GMT
It's weird to think Machine Man was the most current strip Forces printed. Given it's possible to work out that the Forces issues were put together six weeks before their cover dates, at one point they had to stall Machine Man because they needed issue 19 two weeks before it went on sale in America.
To my mind though the art in those comics looks very dated, older than they actually are. I've never liked Machine Man. Conversely, the sixties Howling Commandos stuff looks very like British equivalents of the early 80s. I was surprised how good it is.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2022 23:38:23 GMT
Oh it gets madder than that. At a couple of points Marvel UK SW is printing US inventory issues, not used there, and strips *BEFORE* the US publishes them. That's why there's a big run of original UK material at one point.... and why the main strip is somewhat behind when Jedi hits!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2022 14:07:46 GMT
Ditko Machine Man was shite.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 28, 2022 18:53:52 GMT
Oh it gets madder than that. At a couple of points Marvel UK SW is printing US inventory issues, not used there, and strips *BEFORE* the US publishes them. That's why there's a big run of original UK material at one point.... and why the main strip is somewhat behind when Jedi hits! That's interesting - so the US SW comic had issues produced that weren't actually published over there, but were here? Was that a 'thing' then with Marvel? That happened with Thundercats; the UK had US originated strips that weren't in the US run. Did Marvel produce issues for titles to keep in case of emergency then? I recall there being evidence of bits of strips for Transformers that weren't published too. |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 28, 2022 18:54:23 GMT
Ditko Machine Man was shite. -Ralph Yep, no matter how much I try to like it, I fear that is the case. The interesting thing is that it looks like the MM printed in TF isn't just recycled from its appearance in Forces from four years before because of the editing that Forces did on it. The TF version seems to be a new reproduction because the strips are complete. You could just about excuse them if they were reusing stuff they already had prepared, but to do it twice? That strip? Gah. |
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