Marvel reprints in British comics pre-Marvel UK

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stevezodiac wrote:With the Doc Strange strips being only ten or eleven pages in Strange Tales they could reprint a new story every week in Terrific and then Fantastic and Terrific. With the other characters they had to split twenty page stories so they only had to mess about with the credit box every fortnight although they then had the problem of replacing the original splash page - sometimes with a dramatic panel blown up a few sizes.
Usually they used the original cover as the splash page to 'part 2'.

It was strange they deleted the credit box as the editors had no problem identifying the creators if people asked on the letters pages. I suppose they were keeping up the bad tradition of British comics in downplaying the artists and writers.
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A week later and the original poster hasn't returned. Ah well, I hope he appreciated the info we provided.
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Talking of Dr Strange(this is prob wrong thread) I have just watched Captain America 2 & interesting enough Dr Stranges' name was mentioned after Bruce banners', could this be a sign that a dr strange film is on the way or maybe in the planned defenders tv mini series after the daredevil one, BTW i thought cap 2 was much better than spiderman 2 bring back tobey maguire :( spidey along with superman are my 2 favourite superheroes ever & i hate seeing them in bad films ie superman IV & Andrew Garfield spidey reboots.

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big bad bri wrote:Talking of Dr Strange(this is prob wrong thread) I have just watched Captain America 2 & interesting enough Dr Stranges' name was mentioned after Bruce banners', could this be a sign that a dr strange film is on the way or maybe in the planned defenders tv mini series after the daredevil one, BTW i thought cap 2 was much better than spiderman 2 bring back tobey maguire :( spidey along with superman are my 2 favourite superheroes ever & i hate seeing them in bad films ie superman IV & Andrew Garfield spidey reboots.
I gather there is indeed a Dr Strange project in the works, though I believe it's to be a TV thing rather than a cinematic release. Still very much a part of the same continuity that the movies and Agents of SHIELD are set in, though.

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No, Dr Strange is meant to be a proper movie. The online TV projects are Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones.

http://www.thewrap.com/captain-america- ... nge-movie/
He [Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige] noted that Marvel is currently meeting with possible directors for a Dr. Strange movie and is in the process of developing a film.

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