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Issue: The Mighty World of Marvel #1
Publication Date: October 1972
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel UK
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Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management London Ltd.
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Volume: none
Pages: 40
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.05 GBP
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour front and back covers; black and White with some colour interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Hulk; Spider-Man; Human Torch; Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Thing
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The Coming of the Hulk

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The Hulk [Bruce Banner] (introduction, origin]; Rick Jones (introduction); General Thunderbolt Ross (introduction); Betty Ross (introduction)
Scientist Bruce Banner saves a young boy, Rick Jones, from being killed by a nuclear blast but absorbs deadly amounts of gamma radiation which transforms him into a monster dubbed the Hulk. Bruce Banner is scientist by day, but transforms into the Hulk once the sun goes down.
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Slight layout changes, typically some top and/or bottoms of panels cropped slightly in height so the pages fit the UK page size.

The two chapters are printed as one in this reprint. The title page to chapter 2 of the original (page 7) has been omitted to bring the page count down from 11 to 10.

Black & white reprint, although pages 1-5 & 8 are tinted green.

"The Hulk Strikes!" chapter is from the reprint from Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #14, you can tell this due to the text blurb caption at the bottom of the page at the end of the chapter.

This Hulk story covers pages 2-8 and 12-14.
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Three quarter-page ads: top right, Charles Atlas; bottom left, a free stamp collectors' outfit (from The Bridgnorth Stamp Co. Ltd of Bridgnorth, Shropshire); bottom right, "135 different stamps free" (from Jet Stamps of Much Wenlock, Salop [i.e. Shropshire again]); all three ads contain photographs of their subjects.
At top left, instructions for ironing on the "free Marvel T-Shirt transfer", which was of the Hulk.
This follows 7th page of the Hulk story.
The Mighty World of Marvel Pin-Up Page!

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The Fantastic Four [Mr Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Monster from Monster Isle
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This is a reprint of the cover of Fantastic Four #1, minus all cover text; new text proclaims the scene to be a symbolic one, showing one of the "marauding minions" of the Mole Man; a flash at the bottom of the page announces that readers will meet him next week [as this issue reprints the origin half of FF #1 only]. The cover has been recoloured (for instance, Sue's red dress of the original cover is here coloured blue, as are the Thing's trunks and Reed's entire outfit - this is presumably an attempt to make their clothes resemble the costumes of a little later). This is a “missing-man” version of the cover, i.e. two of the five startled bystanders depicted in the original art. are absent here. Lastly, an extra floor or two has been added to the buildings on the right.
Located between the 7th and 8th pages of the Hulk story.
You've a Team to be Proud of - Get a Watch to be Proud of

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Full-page ad for the SoccerWatch, with photo of the watch itself top centre - comes in the colours and with the crest of any of 28 teams; basically, it's for timing a soccer game, even with a section for Injury Time, so you always know how many minutes remain.
Located before the 8th page of the Hulk story.
The Fantastic Four

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The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]] (introduction, origin); the Mayor of Central City
Mysterious events occur in Central City, as an invisible woman alarms the citizens, a lumpy-skinned monster stalks the streets and a blazing human figure flashes across the sky; these three unearthly people have been summoned to the presence of a fourth, a man with elastic limbs. Once they gather, the tale is told as to how Susan Storm, Ben Grimm, Sue's brother Johnny and Reed Richards gained their strange powers: during an attempt to be the first into space, where their ship's shielding proved ineffective against cosmic rays, and they returned to Earth ... more than human.
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Printed in black and white with most pages (1-10 & 13) tinted green. Various small changes are made to dialogue in the story: one example is the last panel of story page 7, where the Torch's assessment that the missile "has a nuclear warhead" is amended to "an explosive warhead" (and quite right too); in another example, on story page 9, panel 2, "the commies" becomes "the Russians", while the dialogue in panel 4 is completely omitted. On story page 14, panel 2, the "Americanism" " ... period" is removed, while in panel 5 the shape of the dialogue is altered by changing the first speaker from Sue, to Reed; Ben's speech is then directed not at Sue but at Reed, calling him "a prissy dummy"! Panel 6 then further alters Ben's speech, basically removing all reference to the early notion that Ben was jealous of Reed with regard to Sue. In addition, this editing leads to an alteration on story page 13, panel 8, where Ben credits Reed with naming him "the Thing" rather than Sue.
This story covers pages 15-19 and 22-29.
A Special Message fom Stan Lee

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Message from Stan Lee about the launch of Marvel U.K. and details of "The world's greatest free gift offer!": for ten weeks, each issue will bear a numbered coupon - collect eight and mail them in for the gift; along with a coupon, each issue will also carry a clue to the mystery gift. This issue, coupon no. 1 shows the Hulk's face, and the clue is: "It's bigger than a breadbox!"
This centrespread is located between pages 5 & 6 of the Fantastic Four story.
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An offer for a free Junior Pictorial Encyclopaedia (shown as photograph) on joining the Children's Book Club.
Located between the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man stories.
Spider-Man

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Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (introduction, origin); Ben Parker (introduction); Crusher Hogan; Flash Thompson (introduction); Liz Allen (introduction); May Parker (introduction); the Burglar
Orphan Peter Parker, "professional wallflower", brought up by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains the proportionate abilities of an arachnid. Making a costume and devising webshooters, he chooses to use those abilities to achieve fame and make money, as Spider-Man, TV star. When he fails to stop a takings thief who runs past him, despite the ease with which he could have done so, his uncle is later killed as a result. He therefore learns to his cost that with great power there must also come great responsibility.
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Part 2 title-page (original story page 7) omitted.
Pages 1-2 and 5-9 of this reprint are tinted green. Pages 3-4 are black & white. Page 10 is on the back coverof the comic and is in printed in full-color.

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