Thursday 18 December 2014

1975: GIANT SUPERHERO HOLIDAY GRAB-BAG House Ad (Marvel UK)


From late 1975: another, more traditionally dimensioned, MARVEL UK House Ad for the 1975 edition of the GIANT SUPERHERO HOLIDAY GRAB-BAG Treasury Edition. 

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  1. ** MORE BREAKING NEWS **

    TITAN UK ALSO CANCELS TRANSFORMERS COMIC

    Only a week has passed since titan ended their star wars comic and now they have done it again, cancelling their long running TRANSFORMERS title. is this just a co-incidence or have titan decided to do a little house cleaning so to speak...?

    The title appeared in 2007 as a tie-in with the first movie and then re-booted several times to co-incide with either a new movie or animated series. There was even a short lived spin-off TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED.

    All told, it ran to 5 volumes with the last batch being a tie-in with AGE OF EXTINCTION.

    The American IDW line of comics remains as strong as ever.

    Have a great xmas slow robot and cu in the new year. If 2014 was the year of the revolutionary war, then 2015 will be the year in which the force awakens !

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    1. Thank you sir. Festive greetings to you too.

      I don't know much about publishing but it is entirely possible that Titan are indeed doing some house-clearing... either because sales have dropped on those titles or - more likely - the licenses are running out and they don't want to/ haven't been invited to renew.

      It's surprising to hear that TRANSFORMERS is going as it seemed a hardy perennial, periodically bolstered by a new movie or TV release. Maybe the previous film didn't create the desired sales spike to make the license worthwhile. Print is a declining market (the amount of shelf space WH Smith devotes to all periodicals is noticeably less than even 12 months ago) so across-the-board sales drops may have made some licenses too expensive based on sales and income.

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