Wednesday 23 May 2012

1975: THE SUPER-HEROES - PART ONE

Today, it's back to 1975, and Marvel UK's weekly anthology THE SUPER-HEROES.

Unlike M-UK's other weeklies to date, this feels like a particularly lacklustre effort pooling The X-Men and Fantastic Four supporting player Silver Surfer in solo action.

It should have been a does-what-it-says-on-the-cover action anthology but it really feels like Marvel New York had nothing much left in reserve for this one, making it largely forgotten today.

-  THE SUPER-HEROES is not to be confused with the later monthly DC THE SUPERHEROES (from London Editions), MARVEL SUPERHEROES (the 1979-launched monthly successor to MARVEL COMIC) or even HEROES (the short-lived 1991 DC reprint weekly).
-  The initial line-up was the Silver Surfer and The Uncanny X-Men.  Reprints of Doc Savage were (briefly) added, from issue 23, to coincide with the campy George Pal flopbuster movie).  Savage was replaced by long-forgotten Marvel heroine The Cat and Giant Man.  Continuing the trend of distinctly also-rans, The Scarecrow joined from issue 41, followed by Bloodstone from 45.  Marvel Two-in-One (The Thing's low key version of Marvel Team-Up) started the same issue, just in time for cancellation with issue 50.
- THE SUPER-HEROES merged with Spider-man to form the long-winded SUPER SPIDER-MAN AND THE SUPER-HEROES from issue 158 (21 February 1976).   To accommodate the merger, Spider-man switched to the controversial landscape 'Titans Format'.

ISSUE 1
8 March 1975

ISSUE 1
EDITORIAL


ISSUE 2
15 March 1975

ISSUE 3
22 March 1975

ISSUE 4
29 March 1975

ISSUE 5
5 April 1975

ISSUE 6
12 April 1975

ISSUE 7
19 April 1975

ISSUE 8
26 April 1975

ISSUE 9
3 May 1975

ISSUE 10
10 May 1975

ISSUE 11
17 May 1975

ISSUE 12
24 May 1975

ISSUE 13
31 May 1975

ISSUE 14
7 June 1975

ISSUE 15
14 June 1975

ISSUE 16
21 June 1975

ISSUE 17
28 June 1975

ISSUE 18
5 July 1975

ISSUE 19
12 July 1975

ISSUE 20
19 July 1975

ISSUE 21
26 June 1975

ISSUE 22
2 August 1975

ISSUE 23
9 August 1975

The traditional two-strip format becomes three-a-week with the addition of DOC SAVAGE: MAN OF BRONZE.

IN-HOUSE ADVERT
9 August 1975

ISSUE 24
16 August 1975

- TO BE CONTINUED - 

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