A Fantastical August 2nd 1963

Published this very day in 1963, The Avengers #1. Famously, the title was put together at considerable speed by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee et al to hurriedly take the place on the printing schedule of a disastrously late new Daredevil title. If the resulting debut issue wasn’t consistently polished, it really was an awful […]

July 25th 1972 – The Comic Books We Never Saw

Heaven only knows how many fans were buying UK comics zines in the early 1970s. A few hundred? Somewhere in the (very) low four figures? Whatever the figure was, it was tiny, and the same names would often appear across a number of different fanzines as writers and correspondents. In and around London especially, there […]