" i'm just living in a world w/out meaning - i walk & talk - say nothing "

[worldofagwu]

ITEM! i keep meaning to mention this: we had a visit from the jehovah's witnesses a week last sunday - not very unusual in itself but they said they were responding to a web enquiry, ie some prankster had sent 'em my name & address & asked 'em to call round - they were v.apologetic & said they were a bit suspicious themselves that it might not have

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Mighty World of Marvel

[mittelstadt]

I have a nostaglic spot (actually, two: my mother's attic in Bedford and a garage at home here ) for MWOM. I had letters published in it when I was a teen. (I have a couple of issues, with my letters in them, here. The rest of the collection, assuming it hasn't crumbled to confetti by now, is still in England.)

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[worldofagwu]

i think i remember you from the MWOM letters pages - tho that cld be the power of "suggestion" - the only letter i had published was in a later british marvel comic called "the complete fantastic four" - where i shamefully praised a gerry conway/rich buckler FF story & slagged off a lee/kirby one ( o, the folly of youth ) - i may have also used the words, "man, i really dig thundra!"

( still, it's goob to have "the right" to put the letters QNS after my name )

- did you see the letter steve had published in the champions...? - he was always v.embarrassed abt that 'un

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[mittelstadt]

I don't remember how many letters I had published by Marvel UK in the early '70s but apparently at least one made it in after I had moved back to the States and Steve wrote in to explain my absence after someone had mentioned it in print. (Not to get swell-headed or anything.) But I was nowhere near as frequent a "lettercol" contributor as some of the US fans of the 1960s and '70s who later became comics writers and editors

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[worldofagwu]

i don't have a copy of steve's loc to the champions ( - it was in issue 15 or 16, i think - not long before it got cancelled ) but if i ever find one, i'll scan it in to jellytown

they way he told it, circa 1976, steve wrote & sent off a very long detailed critical analysis of a bill mantlo/john byrne story - which got edited down for publication to something like "i thought champions no.10 couldn't be beat but issue eleven was a masterpiece of comic book art" - he was mortified - but made it into a very funny anecdote of course

apart from the title, i don't think there's much nostalgia value to be had out of the new MWOM - it's very slickly put together & just looks like a thicker version of an american comic - there's little editorial "personality" - goob vfm tho ( £2.50 for 96 pgs ) if you just wanna read the stories

all the british marvels are monthly ( published by panini ) & the other titles are: avengers united, wolverine & deadpool, fantastic four adventures & essential x-men

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[mittelstadt]

I'm fairly sure Steve's letter was in Champions #16. Funny what one remembers.
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Gerard

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[worldofagwu]

- ta - that's useful info if i ever get round to digging thru the back issue bins - was it ND, i wonder...?

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[mittelstadt]

or nd, even.

I'm not sure I would care to "look at the inking".