All this and the death of Combat Colin in my look at EXODUS PART 2!
This week, it your last chance to get excited by Action Masters. Plus, Autobot security is a bit rubbish, the Neo Knights realise they're shit and Galvatron meets an old friend.
All this and the death of Combat Colin in my look at EXODUS PART 2!
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Mr. Shhhhh
10/8/2018 10:52:06 pm
Promoting the X-Men at this point was a pretty sensible move for Marvel UK - this period marked the peak of the X-books' popularity stateside, indeed X-Men #1 (the one with the four covers) broke all records by selling 8.1 million copies. Not sure if they'd have known about the upcoming launch of the animated series too but, of all the properties they'd have had access to, the X-Men would likely have seemed a pretty safe bet for their next big earner.
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13/8/2018 12:48:59 pm
There was also an X-Men toyline launched in 1991 in the states which I recall had made it over here by the end of 1992 so it wouldn't have hurt to build up some interest here. But as this is the US issue it may well be a case of Marvel US looking to drum up sales further in overseas markets (and, depending on stock, possibly even trying to clear some of the absurd over-orders by putting some out on the international newsstand with a promotional drive).
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Charles RB
12/8/2018 09:10:22 pm
This is a fun comparison to the IDW work - a post-war period where the Autobots and Decepticons are too mutually pissy to want to work together is basically the IDW status quo since 2012, but in the old-school it could only be done for two issues post-Unicron so toys could still be flogged. (And yet when G2 comes back, it's back to uneasy-peace by #8!) You can see the change in how comics were made and what the readership is.
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I bought some x-men comics around this time but I cant remember if they were UK. I'm sure andy wildman drew some or all of them though. And they introduced some fairly basic concepts and seemed to (unusually I believe) lean on Gambit and not Wolverine.
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bouncelot
15/8/2018 01:51:49 am
Wiki says that Andy became the regular artist on X-Men Adventures (the comic strip adaptation of the animated series), which was a US comic. So you most likely picked up some Gambit-focused issues of that, and simply remember having them a bit earlier than they were actually published.
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Lee
14/8/2018 02:45:18 pm
https://telos.co.uk/shop/cult-tv/transform-and-roll-out/ This book looks interesting. I see Transformers Classics UK Vol. 6 has now been put back to 28th of November (my 43rd birthday).
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Stuart
14/8/2018 04:02:35 pm
That book's by regular commentator on this site Ryan Frost, so it should be good.
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Felicity
31/12/2019 09:22:08 pm
Bludgeon needs some whitening toothpaste!
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