" 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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Re: Mighty World of Marvel

[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.

I didn't realize (or maybe had forgotten) that Steve had a letter in Champions. Do you have a copy? I'd like to see it.

Re: less-than-ideal word choices: My first MWOM missive started "I am 16" (which I was); but when my neighbor and Bedford Modern School pal Jim Moore (who also later met Steve at Mander College) saw that in print, he said something like "you're writing to Stan Lee about his comics, not asking him out on a date." (Which was true. I liked ol' Smiley's writing but he would've made a lousy date. Especially compared to, say, Thundra. Or Mary Jane Watson.)

Seriously, though: I didn't realize MWOM had been revived. Twice? So now it reprints whole issues of those comics you mentioned? Do they alternate with others? Is it monthly, or what? Maybe I'll try to get a copy. My family members in Bedford still shop at W.H. Smith's for me if I ask nicely enough for a birthday or Yule present. (W.H. Smith's in Bedford, by the way, is in a downtown shopping center built on the site of the old Bedford Modern School. I attended school in the "new" building. elsewhere in town, for only my last term, just before Mander.) What else does Marvel UK publish nowadays?

Re: Mighty World of Marvel

[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

Re: Mighty World of Marvel

[mittelstadt]

I'm fairly sure Steve's letter was in Champions #16. Funny what one remembers.
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Re: Mighty World of Marvel

[worldofagwu]

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

Re: Mighty World of Marvel

[mittelstadt]

or nd, even.

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