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Alan Class comics
Remember these? When actual new Marvel comics were unavailable these were the next best thing (or last resort depending on how fussy you were): licenced black and white reprints of early Marvel/Timely comics which often used the names of old US pulp magazines, e.g Astounding, Weird Tales etc.
Mostly one-off SF/horror stories, often by Ditko and Kirby (hurrah!) or Paul Reinman (boo!), occasionally, better known Marvel characters (Giant Man, FF, Thunder Agents) but usually totally obscure ones (Nemesis, Captain Atom) , they were sometimes the only way to see the earlier efforts of Marvel's best writers and artists. They had a good run too, from 1959 to 1989, after which production costs and lack of licencing deals finally killed them off.
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I remember B&W Marvel comics - in fact that's virtually my entire memory of US comics until fairly recently, aside from one or two DC & Charlton US editions I picked up. Didn't realise these were "Alan Class". They had titles like Amazing Spider-Man or Incredible Hulk so I guess I always assumed they were from Marvel. Gave away a BUNCH of them earlier this year.
Edit - just had a look around and THOSE Alan Class comics are not the B&W Marvel UK editions I remember, so somebody else must have been doing them. |
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There were the Marvel reprints packaged as "Terrific" and "Fantastic" etc. in the mid to late 60s. Some also appeared in "Wham" and "Pow".
One British comic also used to reprint Superman in black and white but I forget which. DC weren't too keen on lending out their characters by all accounts. |
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Those are (relatively) recent reprints. Headed by one of the pet Shop Boys. Who knew?
Now I feel really old.
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As a kid I looked down with derision on AC comics. Cheap nasty things for kids that knew no better.
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As a kid I looked down with derision on AC comics. Cheap nasty things for kids that knew no better.
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didnt realise they were around until 1989, never saw one as a kid (born in 1980) and i was buying pretty much every comic i could find in the shop, marvel uk transformers/gi joe etc, commando and the sci fi version of commando, 2000 ad etc
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There were the Marvel reprints packaged as "Terrific" and "Fantastic" etc. in the mid to late 60s. Some also appeared in "Wham" and "Pow".
One British comic also used to reprint Superman in black and white but I forget which. DC weren't too keen on lending out their characters by all accounts. |
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they really were terrific and fantastic comics with original UK stories including one with a superior homo sapien hero a sort of missing link....have them in attic
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That would be Missing Link who eventually became Johnny Future, drawn by the great Luis Bermejo I believe.
So here's one for you... remember DoubleDouble comics? |
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I reckon you're of an age similiar to me, if you can remember Johnny Future and Alan Class comics!
So here's one for you... remember DoubleDouble comics? To wit: Maxwell Hawke, Iron Eaters, The Purple Cloud, G for Giant, Jason January etc. |
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I reckon you're of an age similiar to me, if you can remember Johnny Future and Alan Class comics!
So here's one for you... remember DoubleDouble comics? |
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Yes - DoubleDouble comics! It seemed like they'd got hold of any random four comics, ripped off the back and front covers of each of them, then put the four titles together and given them a new front and back cover, calling them DoubleDouble Comics.
I remember on at least one occasion one or two of them were Marvels mixed in with DCs, that shows how random they were. But they were cheap, I can't remember the cost but certainly they were cheaper than four of the individual comics would have been together. Which were 10d each when I started collecting them, then eventually each title went up to a whole shilling. Blimey! I think DoubleDouble comics were probably two shillings then. And I think that Alan Class comics, to get back on topic, were something like sixpence each. |
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Some Double Double Comics info here.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Missing Link/Johnny Future :http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/j/jonfutur.htm
"Link is big! Link is strong!" (Link is also a bit like The Hulk).
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That would be Missing Link who eventually became Johnny Future, drawn by the great Luis Bermejo I believe.
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