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Sometimes you see something that you just have to have - and so it was with The Invaders #8 when I saw it on eBay recently.  I owned the comic back in 1976 when it first came out (or was it 1977 before it turned up on our shores?) and seeing it again brought back welcome memories of that far-away and long-ago period in my young life.  Haven't re-read it yet, but I'll get around to it before too long.

Regarding the cover, it has the usual impact of a Jack Kirby piece, but the decline in the King's talents had well-and-truly set in.  Far too many squiggles that bear no resemblance to reality in place of accurate musculature or anatomy, making the cover look busy, but with what I call pseudo-detail as opposed to the real deal.  Anyway, I've got an early slice of my past life back and I'm a very happy chappie.

Interior artist Frank Robbins' style was always controversial, then and now, but he was a good visual storyteller and made the comic stand out among other mags of the time.  Personally, I quite like it and it really suited Batman when Robbins worked for the Distinguished Competition.

Did you have this issue back in the day, Crivvies, and if so, what did you think of it and The Invaders in general?  Do tell in the you-know-where.  Incidentally, I've just purchased the first volume of The Complete Collection, so I'll give you a look at that when it arrives.

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