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Thursday, 24 May 2012

1975-76: THE SUPER-HEROES - PART TWO

The second (and final part) of our hasty romp through Marvel UK's short-lived 1975-76 weekly, THE SUPER-HEROES.

It's all-change as the original line-up is completely overhauled, although the replacements were even less memorable than the strips they replaced.

ISSUE 25

16 August 1975

ISSUE 26

30 August 1975

ISSUE 27

6 September 1975

Doc Savage, published to coincide with the UK release of the feature film, ends this issue.

ISSUE 28

13 September 1975

ISSUE 29

20 September 1975

ISSUE 30

27 September 1975

Last Silver Surfer.

ISSUE 33

18 October 1975

The Cat and Giant Man begin this issue.

ISSUE 34

25 October 1975

ISSUE 35

1 November 1975

ISSUE 36

8 November 1975

ISSUE 37

15 November 1975

ISSUE 38

22 November 1975

ISSUE 40

6 December 1975

The Cat ends this issue.

ISSUE 41

13 December 1975

The Scarecrow starts this issue.

ISSUE 42

20 December 1975

ISSUE 43

27 December 1975

ISSUE 44

3 January 1976

Last X-Men and Scarecrow.

ISSUE 45

10 January 1976

New strip line-up: Marvel Two-in-One (The Thing) and Bloodstone.

ISSUE 46

17 January 1976

ISSUE 47

24 January 1976

ISSUE 48

31 January 1976

ISSUE 49

7 February 1976

ISSUE 50

14 January 1976

Final issue.

Somewhat cryptic merger announcement.

Double-page in-house advertisement for SUPER SPIDER-MAN WITH THE SUPER-HEROES.

SUPER SPIDER-MAN WITH THE SUPER-HEROES - FIRST MERGE ISSUE.

ISSUE 158

21 February 1976

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

1975: DOC SAVAGE MOVIE ADVERT

Here's a half-page promotion for the UK release of George Pal's adaptation of DOC SAVAGE. Note the ridiculously spaced release pattern: the Man of Bronze's fan in Darlington would have to wait until late October to see the film, months after the likes of Manchester and Liverpool.

Marvel attempted to cash-in on the film by running their altogether-better strip version of the pulp hero in THE SUPER-HEROES weekly.

The other half of the page is more winning entries in the Marvel/ Butlins joke competition. Hold your sides...

6 August 1975

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'.