1984 UK SPIDER-MAN SPECIALS...

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Having featured 33 covers of the UK Spider-Man comic from 1984/'85 recently, I thought I'd show you the covers to a couple of Specials I bought several days or so ago to complete them, seeing as they're from the same period as the weekly periodical.  To be able to reach back almost 40 years into the past and pluck something from that time into the present always gives me a bit of a thrill, as it almost feels that I'm returning to that time as well as bringing it into the here-and-now.  An illusion I know, but a very satisfying one.  I'll also be adding them to the images of that other post as that's where they really belong, but I wanted to give them their own space here as well.

When I saw these Specials on eBay, I was sure I hadn't owned them before, but when I received them, upon reflection the cover of the Christmas one seemed really familiar, so I'm wondering if I may have bought it back then and whether it might be lurking around the house somewhere, hidden in a box or cupboard.  Or maybe I've got the original US ish it was reprinted from, though the story doesn't ring any bells.  Anyway, I've definitely got them now so I can draw the curtain down on that particular period of Spidey's UK history - as far as my collection goes anyway.  Having said that, maybe I'll track down the Annual for '85 (issued in '84) just for the sake of completeness.

So nothing of any great significance with this post, Crivs, just keeping my hand in so that my typing fingers (or should that be finger?) don't seize up - and that's no hyperbole as I'm having circulation problems at the moment which require forthcoming hospital appointments to determine the cause.  I also seem to have bleeding or blood clots at the back of my eyes, so I'm on a list for that as well.  I was given an 'urgent' referral which, I'm advised, could take 3 or 4 months.  That's not exactly my idea of urgent, but that's the standard timescale these days, or so I'm told.  Still, onwards and upwards, eh?!

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