January twenty sixth 1974 – Marvel UK, 50 years ago this week.
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Do you know what’s neat?

Tiger Feet!

How attain I happen to know this?

Because Mud suggested me.

An introduction of such quality can most productive imply one thing. This used to be the week in 1974 when that band hit the summit of the UK singles chart with the melange of Retro and Glam which spawned the shatter hit about possessing the paws of a stripey tom cat.

To at the 2d, I tranquil originate no longer comprise a clue what the music’s the truth is about but who am I to doubt the knowledge of the band that Showaddywaddy might perhaps well well most productive dream of changing into?

Over on the accompanying album chart, Perry Como used to be being far less cryptic as he sailed serenely to the tip of the mountain with his LP And I Esteem You So. I must confess I’ve never heard that LP but, given his popularity, I am going to deem it is a calming listen from launch to attain.

Spider-Man Comics Weekly #50, Dr Octopus, Iron Man

Can it is correct? Has Spider-Man turn true into a legal and joined forces with basically the most tentacular fear known to man?


Develop of, ensuing from he’s lost his memory and the villain’s convinced him they’re partners in infamy.

No longer most productive that. He’s distributed him off to steal some top-secret militia blueprints.

Nonetheless, even with his memory absent, our hero’s beginning to comprise doubts that he might perhaps well well ever be friends with the kind of reprobate.

In the intervening time, in his strip, Thor’s as great consume as a marshmallow hammer, as he stands around watching whereas Odin defeats the Involving Man by sending him and Loki flying off into location.

However the utter god might perhaps well well fair soon be wanted merit on Midgard ensuing from, there, a witch physician finds one of many Norn Stones which comprise been nothing but bother these days, and promptly positive aspects broad-powers sooner than renaming himself The Demon.

However decide up on to your hats, armour followers! A historic 2d has been reached. The comic that’s constantly most productive ever had two strips (unless you rely Tales of Asgard) has without warning obtained a third!

That strip is Iron Man and we’re about to see gorgeous how the Avengers star came to be, when fingers seller Tony Stark will get some shrapnel in the coronary heart and is taken prisoner by a Vietcong warlord who needs him to assemble weapons for him.

And, in spite of every thing, there is one more chance to assemble a hero or villain of our picking in a contest that might perhaps well well see us nabbing a form of like color TVs I oftimes hear talk of.

The Avengers #19, Captain The United States vs Vitality Man

Disbanded by the native council, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are out of labor till they accumulate jobs at a circus.


The Ringmaster’s circus!

Nonetheless, the hypnotic heel tells the police they’ve tried to steal from him, forcing the trio to poke on the mosey. 

In the intervening time, Captain The United States’s out to negate the Enchantress and Vitality Man to justice. 

This all leads to the defeat of the villains and the council reversing its earlier resolution. Thus letting the team reform.

Upright for Cap to remark that he’s quitting the band.

In assorted locations, judging by that quilt blurb, it might perhaps well truly well seem Mordo is the hunter and Dr Unfamiliar is the hunted. Which is ready to’t be true news for either humanity or the master of the mystic arts.

The Mighty World of Marvel #69, Daredevil is merit

Nonetheless it is miles rarely all the time gorgeous Spidey’s guide that’s obtained a strip. As that frontage makes obvious, Daredevil returns to the designate’s flagship title, restoring what I believe many will see as its traditional lineup!


However will he reside long sufficient to savor his resurrection?

After all, in the Hulk’s strip, the Chief’s gorgeous fired a nuclear missile at Russia in a give away to launch World Warfare 3.

Handiest the Hulk can conclude it but, first, he must defeat the villain’s indefatigable Tall Humanoid.

Fortunately, a at hand volcano affords a formula to that self-discipline.

Subsequent, we’re re-handled to the origin of the man without anguish but, this time, as suggested by Stan Lee and Gene Colan in the pages of Daredevil #Fifty three.

Finally, we accumulate the appearance of a new broad-villain when Sue and Johnny Storm’s dad turns himself into the Invincible Man! A foe blessed with the powers of the Unheard of Four themselves!

Or does he?

Two of this challenge’s three yarns feature villains trapped in volcanoes. I’m capable of see no significance to this truth but feel I must tranquil mention it.