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| Site last updated: 13/05/2008 23:02:35 |
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| Let me bid you a warm welcome to www.marvelclassiccomics.com - a website and business dedicated to providing information and reference material as well as supplying some of the loveliest comic books produced. |
Here you will find background information on the comics that were produced in this series and you will also be able to purchase them via the sales catalogue and shopping cart. Here you will also be able to see today’s prices for those rare issues and you may well find that you wished that you had kept and cherished them all those years ago, if you once owned them.
Marvel, of course, are better known for superhero comics such as Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk and so it was a departure for them when, in 1976, they began to produce their own Classic Comics with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The more popular and well known series, Classics Illustrated - www.classicsillustrated.co.uk - had finished in 1971 and Marvel felt they could re-invigorate the genre. In all 36 of them were produced and they were generally well drawn and well interpreted. Some gaffes were made - H.G.Wells’ The First Men in the Moon was attributed to Jules Verne - and The Cyclops in Homer’s Odyssey was drawn as horned and purple - Marvel simply couldn’t stop drawing outlandish, out of this world monsters. Most of the titles had appeared in the CI series but two new ones were adapted - H. Rider Haggard’s She and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. After two years the series ended - like Kanter’s and later Frawley’s Classics Illustrated had found, children simply weren’t attracted to the old classic books, preferring Marvel’s superheroes - since then they have stuck to their knitting! The comics are very nice in their own right and their price is very affordable if you wanted to see other adaptations of major novels beyond the CI efforts.
I believe that you will find your visit here to be both educational and inspiring - hopefully inspiring enough for you to wish to purchase some of these lovely comics. I have been selling comic books for over four years now, to hundreds of collectors across the world (I also purchase collections). I stick very strictly to the condition guide provided (see link) and am always extremely keen to develop returning buyers many of whom ask me to provide all of the comics they require including complete collections ... MORE
Please feel free to contact me - see contact button at left of page - either by e-mail or, if you are in a hurry to buy (!), by ‘phone. Thank you very much for visiting this webpage - I really hope to help you get all those issues that you’ve always wanted to own.
This website is one of a family of websites catering for collectors of novels, movies and legendary heroes portrayed in pictures. You will be able to visit all of them via the drop down box on the left or via the portal www.classiccomicstore.com.
Please enjoy your visit and please return again often.
I would be pleased as punch to help you develop your collection(s).
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