From 1981: The August cover-dated US MARVEL books carried this BULLPEN BULLETINS page, complete with an explanation of mysterious occurrences in the cover corner box.
So... now you know.
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Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Saturday, 6 December 2014
1992: STAN LEE PLUGS MARVEL UK in BULLPEN BULLETINS (Marvel Comics)
From late 1992: Stan "The Man" Lee turns his monthly plug machine to selling the wares of MARVEL UK across the US Marvel line.
Marvel's output was growing so fast (and, some may argue, indiscriminately) during this period that securing such a lengthy bit of hard sell in BULLPEN BULLETINS must have been quite an achievement. However, it's unlikely that Stan, firmly ensconced on the West Coast trying to convince someone (anyone!) to produce movies and TV shows based on the Marvel pantheon, ever actually read any of the British books.
There a few titles there that must have been changed before the books went ahead: Team Helix (possibly published as Genetix), Death Rattle and Gene Machine. Night Raven (or Nightraven according to Stan) presumably refers to the second edition of the House of Cards graphic novel (which I've covered in previous posts).
Thursday, 11 July 2013
1979: JUNE BULLPEN BULLETINS PAGE (Marvel UK)
Here's the only Marvel UK BULLPEN BULLETINS release to grace the pages of MARVEL COMIC during June 1979. Here's Dez to explain why keeping the Annex of Ideas going week-in/ week-out is actually jolly hard work. Maybe that's why he didn't stick around...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
1979: MARVEL UK APRIL BULLPEN BULLETINS
As an addendum to the MARVEL COMIC April '79 cover gallery (see my previous post), here are the full-page BULLPEN BULLETINS pages that appeared that month.
Note the new corporate logo which continued long past the end of the Skinn era and was still used on the company letterhead in 1989 (see here).
The MARVEL STRIKE FORCE was an unrealised plan by Skinn to mobilise readers to (somehow) bolster Marvel's notoriously bad (shipping strikes not withstanding) distribution compared with its better-resourced rivals.
Note the new corporate logo which continued long past the end of the Skinn era and was still used on the company letterhead in 1989 (see here).
The MARVEL STRIKE FORCE was an unrealised plan by Skinn to mobilise readers to (somehow) bolster Marvel's notoriously bad (shipping strikes not withstanding) distribution compared with its better-resourced rivals.
18 April 1979
25 April 1979
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