KID'S KLASSIC KOMIC COVERS - SPIDER-MAN COMICS WEEKLY #1...

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In almost a month's time it will be February 10th - 43 years

to the day (which was a Saturday back in 1973) since SMCW first

landed on newsagents' shelves the length and breadth of Britain.  I

really should wait 'til then, but there might be no snow in a month,

so here's an extract from a post I did back in 2013.

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It's snowing outside as I type this - and it was snowing 43 years

ago as I chapped a friend's door to show him my copy of the newly

purchased SMCW #1.  He wasn't up and out of bed yet - and because

his mother was too ignorant to invite me in to wait (as mine would've

done in his case), I took shelter in one of a row of under-construction

lock-ups around the corner from his house and waited for him to get

up and greet the day.  He had only moved to the house a week or so

before and, being quite a distance from mine, I was reluctant to

make the return journey so soon after arriving.

As I stood in that grey, doorless lock-up while the flakes swirled

outside, I again browsed through my latest comic acquisition, bought

that snowy Saturday morning from my local newsagent's.  I have other

memories associated with other copies of that same first issue, obtained

at different times and under different circumstances, but that's the one

which is foremost in my mind as I watch the snowflakes dancing out-

side my window - just as they danced beyond the opening of that

cold and cheerless lock-up four decades ago today.

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