EVER WANTED TO BE A MARVEL EDITOR? NOW'S YOUR CHANCE...

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This post was suggested by a regular (I assume) reader, but I'm unsure whether he wants me to identify him or not so I won't for the moment.  However, he's bound to let us know if he wants the fame, glory, and adulation from hordes of screaming females that comes from being name-checked on Crivens.  Anyway, he proposed that I put the following scenario to all you pantin' Crivvies, so are you ready for this?

The year is 1971 and from your Marvel office in New York you address the editors and bean-counters in front of you.  "Marvelites Assembled!  I decree that next year we open up our own operation in the UK (gasps heard).  No more licences - we’re going direct (more gasps).  I see a weekly title (murmurs around the table) then when that’s a success we’ll launch another one the following Spring (nods all round) and then another in the fall (cheers and applause).  So let me throw it open to you - what strips shall we include and what names will these mags have?"

  

So pretend that you're one of those editors or bean-counters.  Can you include any of the titles and contents actually used back in '72 or not?  The reader didn't specify, but let's assume that you can answer the question either way.  Would you have chosen the same characters in the same order, or mixed and matched them differently?  Would you have picked the same names for the mags, or do you have other ideas as to what they could have been called?

Go on, let's have some fun - play along and think about how you might've done things had you been in charge.  Who's going to be first?

E

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