Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 December 2017

Spider-man Annual 1994

The Marvel UK Spider-man annual 1994 features a christmassy cover and feature story 'The Big X-mas Blackout' where we see Spider-man save christmas from Electro!

Thursday, 27 April 2017

Transformers The Definitive G1 Collection

Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection is a fortnightly partwork collection of hardback books published by Hachette Partworks in the UK. The series is made up of 80 volumes which will reprint the entire history of G1 Comics, from the 80s Marvel Uk and US series right through Dreamwave and on to the current IDW series.
Transformers comics have never reached the height in quality the Marvel UK series of the 80s and early 90s did with nothing but short lived (Generation 2) or lackluster (Titan and RID) attempts. This hard back book collection fills the void and finally offers the UK a great ongoing series of Transformers comics strips, many for the first time. 

Monday, 11 April 2016

Aliens UK Comic

 Aliens UK comic volumes 1 and 2 from the early 90s. Volume 1 was published by Trident Comics until issue 16. Dark Horse International gained the license and published issue 17, then began volume 2 which lasted 22 issues. A three part mini series adapting Alien 3 into comic book form was also published under Dark Horse International. Volume 1 included Predator and Alien Vs Predator stories. Volume 2 dropped the Predator strips and focused on reprinting the American Aliens comic books.





Sunday, 10 April 2016

Bane

The front cover of issue 9 of Fleetway Editions UK Batman & Superman comic. 20 years later the cover of issue 6 of the Titan UK Batman the Dark Knight comic pays homage.

Batman Annuals UK

Batman Annuals from the UK. 1981, 82, 83, 85, 89, 91, 92 and 93. Published by London Editions who at the time also produced the UK Batman comics.

Batman annuals in the UK had been constant for several decades until 1998. It was then 8 years till the UK saw another Batman annual in 2006. This could be seen as the fault of the terrible Batman and Robin movie with a new annual not appearing till the Nolan Batman Begins movie came out. Between 2006 and 2014 only one other Batman annual was produced to tie in with the Dark Knight. This however was basically just a puzzle book and not what I consider a ‘real’ annual.
Titan Magazines who publish the UK Batman comics produced two annuals for 2014 and 2015 but unfortunately a 2016 book was not released.