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S<\/b><\/span>aturday 30th September 1972 was an eventful day for British fans of Marvel Comics<\/b><\/i>, as that was the day The Mighty World Of Marvel<\/b><\/i> – or MWOM<\/b><\/i> – was launched.\u00a0 A weekly comic with a mixture of full colour and spot colour pages (the full colour pages increased to 8 with issue 5), the first 30 or so issues had a magical quality to them that later issues didn’t quite match – mainly because there was something extra-special about those early tales.<\/p>\n

I was already familiar with the stories from the days of the ’60s Odhams<\/b><\/i>\u00a0Power Comics<\/b><\/i>, but they’d all been reprinted in b&W and in different dimensions to their original US presentations, so to see the tales closer to how they’d originally appeared was a treat to the 14-year-old me, and I’m sure other kids of a similar age felt the same.\u00a0 It’s a safe bet that many of today’s Merry Marvel Maniacs became so with the inaugral ish of this gaily-coloured comic.<\/p>\n

Anyway, today is 54 years since Marvel UK burst onto the scene, so what follows is a selection of images from that classic 1st issue from all those years ago.\u00a0 Sure, you’ve seen ’em all before on Crivens, but I couldn’t let the big day pass without celebrating.\u00a0 So feel free to wax lyrical in the comments section if you were around back then – or even if you weren’t.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First up, the ‘Green-Skinned Monster’ T-Shirt Transfer<\/span><\/p>\n

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A page (7) was edited out of Spidey’s debut, though Marvel later denied it when a reader sent\u00a0in a\u00a0<\/span>letter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

enquiring about it.\u00a0 I assume the UK editor was unaware of it as the pages were prepared in the States<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And below – The World’s Greatest Free Gift Offer!<\/b><\/i> – sent on receipt of 8 weekly coupons.<\/p>\n

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