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Rick Overton is still with us.

Ha, I remember seeing that little alien dude pop out. It was at the movies ages ago.. at the other end of time. Then recreating it many times at school the following week, with a sock on your hand pushed up through the unbuttoned front of your school shirt , while you fell back on a school desk Always got a laugh.

This is GLORIOUS! I never saw this in the 1980s. Wish I had.

Excellent videos of both exhibitions. Thanks

Very interesting.

I had those. I might even have some up the attic!

I still have all mine! I then went on to collect sci fi and fantasy modeling as well as Cinemagic, still got them all!

All 6 issues are free to look at, in the internet archive web site

thank you so much Mr E I had this record when I was a kid I'm 62 years old now and I tried to find it in the 90s and the 2000s this the first time I've been able to listen to it thank you so much again 😅northern Maine USA

Thank you very much for this post. Bought issues 1 - 3 and 5 - 6 ( yes, there were 6 issues altogether ) back in the day when they were new but I'd missed issue 4. I forgot about it over the years until seeing this and immediately went to ebay, found it and bought it at a fairly reasonable price. Really looking forward to seeing it. This magazine was EXTREMELY influential for me and literally changed my life !!! I was more into the white metal fantasy figures than the spacships, although I did read the articles and enjoyed them. I was interested in anything about models and miniatures back then. Had been painting the fantasy figures, setting them in little dioramas and photographing them in front of large calendar photos for about a year. Although I'm not really a good photographer ( depth of field, what's that ? ), some of them did turn out half decent though. So when issue 5 of this magazine came out, they had started a Readers Page where people would send in pics of their work and describe it. I sent in a few of my pics and to my shock they published them in issue 6 ! Seeing my name and work in print provided the spark I needed to try my hand at sculpting my own. I must admit, the first ones were crude at best but I kept at it. 5 years later I was working for the company who was featured in issue 1 with the Vallejo figs as a free-lance sculptor ! Was able to quit my regular job to do this full time. A literal dream come true ! That company went out of business 9 years later but I found work in another smaller company and have been with them ever since. Retired 10 years ago now but I still do work for them occasionally . BTW, I too really liked that article on the Victorian spaceships !

I came across a few of these in a used book store a while back, and they are a real snapshot of history. In an era before 3D printing, or resin kits, or even the internet, it's amazing what people were able to accomplish with the materials at hand. That "Atlantis" diorama, made from an old vacuum cleaner box, is a work of mad genius. Inspirational! Thanks for sharing.

I still have all my issues.

Thanks for sharing! I just saw there is actually a 6th issue in case you want to hunt it down.

Really interesting looking back at those thanks for posting !

Rick is still alive !!

Rick Overton is the same person who plays one of the main Brownies 'Franjean' in Willow (1988)

Wow, thank you for this incredible trip down memory lane, I remember spending hard earned chore money buying these magazines. Brilliant stuff👍

Just typed it in and found out all issues can be downloaded for free on the Internet Archive! Bless ‘em! And you for making us aware of it at all. 👍👍

I remember these with great fondness too Mr E, there were so many inspiring magazines on the racks back in the 80s!

Thanks for sharing your experience with this magazine :D

August 2024: I'm making one of these, and I have TWO Belstaff overall suits for sale - Small and XL.

my bad, anyways, how much did all this cost in total

welcome to gen Z

english or spanish

Nobody likes saggy spittle 😂

Thanks, you helped me decide on purchasing this book! Not enough info on Amazon yet so I needed more data to take me off the fence.

Great!

Looks Great!!

Amazing detail.

I still have that John Buscema poster ...iconic

Your dates and facts are way off. The weeklies in the format you describe only ran from 1972-79, when Dez Skinn took over and revamped the line (Dez did not write any of the columns earlier attributed to Stan). The issue of Mighty World of Marvel you show was from 1975, long before the Hulk TV show. And The Titans was not the only British Marvel title in landscape format; Super Spider-Man also went landscape after absorbing first The Superheroes and later The Titans. All this information is readily available.

I had this from new as well. I think these comics were formatted like this because British comics stories were only two or three pages long in each comic then continued the next week. Think Beano and Dandy. American comics tended to be one story throughout the comic. I guess it was done to cater for what was perceived as the way British kids expected things to be. Going back as far as Fantastic and Terrific in the late 60s. Loved them all.

If you want to know more about this history, you should look at Captainstrangelife's early videos, because some where in those videos, in his early vids, he talks IN DEPTH about those early british comic books, especially the Titans comics. He has a youtube channel. And you can ask him or contact him by putting a comment or question on one of his newer videos. he will tell you what video numbers or episode numbers it is where he teaches about that.

I feel sorry for the British people. For a very long time, until recently, you could not enjoy the comic books like we Americans did, because you didn't have the fabulous color artwork inside the comic book of Neil Adams, Jim Starlin, John Buscema, Gil Kane, Jack Kirby. You also only had some comic books in color, on the covers. Its almost like the United kingdom didn't find the fantastic world of science fiction, pulp, and fantasy that existed in comic books until much later. Your children in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s missed out a lot.

They recycled The Titans for one of their pocket books range and featured Captain America, Iron Man and Thor reprints from the 60’s.

I think they carried on a similar format up to the mid-80’s. There was a Return of the Jedi weekly still in print for a couple of years after the movie came out. Eventually Panini UK took them over and still produce Doctor Who Magazine which launched as a weekly comic in the late 70’s.

I know DC always had Teen Titans but I've seen at least 2 independent companies with a hero called Titan so I guess they couldn't copyright the name like Thor or Hercules.

This is a tremendous improvement over the first generation Imai model which was issued to coincide with the initial broadcast of "Thunderbirds" in Japan. The first model did not even have open windows so most builders had to resort to painting the windows sky blue to give it the feeling of having windows. It carried in its pod three elevator cars. I'm glad that an improved TB2 is still currently available almost 60 years later.

Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys worked at Marvel UK

It would be cool to get more British UA-cam content creators to do more comic reviews for British comics.... This is Marvel U.K., so its not that far off the American path, but it's a start in the right direction for someone like me who wants to know whats happening on the other side of the Atlantic.

My parents told me they bought early superman and wonder woman comics during the 1940's and after a couple of reads would simply throw them away.I could not believe they thought that was okay.

I think i have that issue. I bought a bunch of british marvels for 10 p each in the 90's. For drawing reference.

The uk spider-man comic also went landscape for a while about the same time, when it changed its title from Spiderman Comics Weekly to Super Spider-man

I’ve still got the poster by John Buscema and Joe Sinnott and the one you sent away for with the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and The Hulk from The Mighty World of Marvel. I bought the American originals primarily but also the British reprints.

I used to devour those comics. I got the Christmas annuals every year, 1st edition of Captain Britain - they all took my pocket money until I discovered Airfix.

I clearly remember The Titans comic being advertised on TV because I went out and bought it thanks to that ad.

Thanks so much, I was struggling with the first Kurnoth's left (our right) leg. This helped a lot.

Haha memory lane when you pointed out the coupons and subscription forms in the back of books and comics. You had to cut around the dotted lines and send off. I remember buying various stuff from Games Workshop, just random stuff. I got the book 'Monsters'. We were only talking about this the other day when you mail ordered something and it could take weeks.

To me, he looks like an Aztec or Mayan warrior. I've never been one for fantasy figurines but you got me wanting to try it out.

Great green colour!