Originally posted by Cliffjumper
Marvel didn't have much local talent, most of them were contracted to Fleetway at the time. Before Dez Skinn was hired, Marvel UK basically consisted of a fistful of editorial staff who collated reprints. It was symptomatic of their total inability to understand the British market...
Panini have come full circle in that regard really. The real shame is they use the Amercian lotsa dots "coloring" system when the Brit method was vastly superior.
I know my dad bought it "for my brother" at one point (because I got Transformers). He even bought him a couple of those great giant hardback collections they did.
My Dad definately had the first of those, apparently they used better quality originals than Titan have (but then, 17ish years ago it would have been easier to get hold of a better copy of a 50's comic simply because they were less old...)