Marvel UK monthly reprinting Akira, Nightbreed, Last American and the Light and Darkness War. Cover: montage Text introductions to Marvel UK's Meltdown series.

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The young Lame and his village are cut off from the rest of the world. The monsters, who locate them by sound and more particularly by voice, have forced them to communicate using sign language. But in a world where permanent night reigns, resources are running out. While Blade accompanies Gris the village hunter on a resupply expedition outside, they are attacked because the young boy inadvertently breaks the silence. Lame, consumed by guilt, will do everything to redeem himself and will make a discovery that could completely change the destiny of the village…

Collected in Pre-Code Classics Weird Adventures/Weird Thrillers.

Gabriel is frantically woken from sleep… by his younger sister Maddy’s Teddy Bear Cissy! Maddy has been kidnapped on Cissy’s watch! He’ll stop at nothing to get her back. He needs Gabriel to open the door to the mythical realm of the Dark Lands. Together they will traverse the horrors of the Dark Lands in pursuit of her captor, an evil called The Crying Man.

Grumpy Cat: The Grumpus and Other Horrible Holiday Tales is a collection of stories featuring everyone’s favorite feline sourpuss that will help keep you in the grumpy spirit all throughout the most joyous season of the year!

Part of the Odhams Press 'Power Comics' line which also included Wham!, Terrific, Pow! and Fantastic. Smash! would often include reprinted stories of both DC and Marvel characters within the same issue. Reformatted in 1969, thus starting volume 2, published by IPC, who had taken over Odhams.

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The two Captains America return home to mourn their fallen. Back in Harlem with battle scars and a renewed sense of focus, Sam Wilson sets out to forge a new path - with Misty Knight by his side and a new shield in his hand! Meanwhile, Steve Rogers makes a final stand against the Outer Circle! Using information gathered from friends on the inside, Cap sets his sights on releasing the world from the Outer Circle's influence and ending the Century Game for good! Plus: A bold new direction for Sharon Carter! And in honor of 750 issues of CAPTAIN AMERICA, fan-favorite writers and superstar artists spin timeless tales of the Sentinel of Liberty! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: SYMBOL OF TRUTH #14, CAPTAIN AMERICA (2023) #750 and CAPTAIN AMERICA: FINALE.

Included a 2-issue story with a crossover between Miracleman and Captain Britain.

Published from October/November 1950 to April/May 1953 with 16 total issues numbered 1 - 16.

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Salem, Massachusetts: 1987. Two teenagers have been found dead, brutally murdered, but not by a man. When gruesome murders become a common occurrence in this sleepy town it is evident that the Headless Horseman has returned! Two brothers, having recently arrived in Salem, find themselves in a centuries-old battle between the Knights Templar (whose task it is to banish all magic from Salem) and the Headless Horseman, the one originally responsible for turning the women of Salem into witches. All Hell breaks loose when the brothers discover they are closer to his true identity than they realize...

Launched by Marvel UK on 11th September 1980, Marvel Team-Up included an eclectic mix of reprinted US series; one of Marvel UK's ongoing problems was that while Marvel US had a wide back catalogue of series, there were relatively few outright headliners, and once they were used in a couple of comics, it became a challenge to pick a mix of stories that could make up an ongoing title. For Marvel Team-Up the two headliner strips were the US Marvel Team-Up (and thus, through it, Spider-Man, the only character to sustain his own long-running UK title) and Fantastic Four, backed up by What If?, Ms. Marvel, Morbius the Living Vampire (from Adventure into Fear), Jack of Hearts (reprinting Marvel Premiere #44; other short run characters from Marvel Premiere and later Marvel Spotlight would replace him once that issue was fully reprinted), and Earth 33 1/3, an original, three panel humour strip by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett. With this wide variety of characters, with the Marvel Premiere, What If? and Marvel Team-Up reprints in particular enabling a wider-than-normal range of characters who could be put on the cover, the comic promoted itself as "More Superheroes Than Ever Before!" However, despite this and the star power of Spider-Man, Marvel Team-Up couldn't sustain sales, and the axe fell after only 25 issues, on 4th March 1981. A week later it merged into Spider-Man and Hulk Weekly #418.

An old and long out of print anthology which has a rare Alan Moore story in its issue #10.

Marvel Madhouse was a Marvel UK title that reprinted strips from Marvel US' Not Brand Echh humour title; the first issue also included a part-reprint, part-expanded Earth 33 1/3 strip by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett. Marvel Madhouse absorbed fellow humour title Frantic with issue #4, but eventually was cancelled too, with the last issue being #17, released June 1982.

November 11th, 2041. Nobody celebrates Veteran's Day anymore. Victor Sheppard is an old man in a new world of peace and equality. Millions of people died and the world is a better place, but nobody remembers why. Haunted by his dead comrades, Victor decides to do the one thing he thought he'd never do: Spill his guts.

Winter Special for the early '80s Marvel UK incarnation of the Hulk.