DAYS OF WINE AND MARVELS...

Copyright MARVEL COMICS

If pressed, I'd say that my favourite comic of the '70s was The Mighty World Of Marvel.  Great name, great content, great presentation (in the main), and it stayed pretty much that way for the first 30 issues or so.  In early 1979 it was relaunched as Marvel Comic, and the interiors looked like any other UK comic for boys, visually losing the Marvel magic which had once been so distinctive.  

Having shown issue #330 recently (when it changed its name and direction), I decided to show you the very last issue of MWOM before its transformation, but I no longer actually owned it.  Never mind, that's what ebay's for, so I bought a copy and it arrived today.  Therefore here's a few pages just to give you a taste of what the comic was like before it changed and then vanished forever.

Having said that, it wasn't gone for long really, as it reappeared just over three years later in May of '83 (dated June) as a monthly, though unfortunately it only survived for 17 issues.  Jumping ahead almost 20 years, Panini brought at back as a US-sized, full-colour monthly, and it had a good long run until only a couple or so years back.  Who knows, maybe it'll pop up again one day.  Here's hoping.

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