"Great News Chums!" was the dreaded phrase that met British comic fans in the 1970's when they opened up their favourite weekly only to find that from next week, it would be merging with a crap publication you never bought. I can't guarantee that we won't merge this blog with one on, say, Taiwanese politics. But for now, enjoy a trip into pre-1985 graphic goodness.

Sunday, 10 May 2009

Marvel UK 1980

Throwing as many ideas as they could out there in the hope that one would stick.





Valour proved just as unpopular as The Savage Sword of Conan weekly had five years before, while Marvel Team-Up was another superhero free-for-all.
Star Heroes was revamped as a pocket book later; Future Tense had some success as a 2000AD copycat.
Forces in Combat tried to appeal to the war comic crowd (although the genre's popularity was by now on the decline) and Savage Action was a beefier monthly.
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  1. ROOKSBY13 May 2009 at 20:05

    Thanks for these, I was a big fan of Savage Action & Future Tense "back in the day". And I'd completely forgotten about Devil Dinosaur...
    (probably for the best!)

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