16 November 2009
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Marvel Age He-Man #2
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When Marvel's Star Comics imprint obtained the license to publish a Masters of the Universe comic, few could have predicted its turbulent thirteen-issue run. I think it is fair to say that the comic started off poorly, but ended with some of the best Masters of the Universe stories ever told. Before the series began Marvel Age ran this article about the forthcoming He-Man and the Masters of the Universe comic, featuring comments from those involved in working on it. Here are the remaining two pages of this enlightening article...
 
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15 November 2009
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Marvel Age He-Man #1
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When Marvel's Star Comics imprint obtained the license to publish a Masters of the Universe comic, few could have predicted its turbulent thirteen-issue run. I think it is fair to say that the comic started off poorly, but ended with some of the best Masters of the Universe stories ever told. Before the series began Marvel Age ran this article about the forthcoming He-Man and the Masters of the Universe comic, featuring comments from those involved in working on it. Here are the first two pages of this enlightening article...
 
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14 November 2009
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Orko's comic strip #61
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Almost every issue of the UK Masters of the Universe comic featured an Orko comic strip on the inside front cover. As this Blog continues I will try and feature all of them for your amusement. Here I present the "Orko the Magician" comic strip from issue sixty-one. The funniest thing in this strip is that Orko has a picture of himself on the wall in his home!
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12 November 2009
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Catra and Castaspella by Senior.
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Geoff Senior was one of the greatest artists on the UK Transformers comic back in the eighties. His simple dynamic line art lent itself well to the Autobots and Decepticons. During his time on the Transformers comic he illustrated the She-Ra Ladybird book "Catra's Ice Palace". As much as I love his artwork on Transformers, I do not feel that he was a good choice for the She-Ra books...
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11 November 2009
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Dum de dum dum de dum.
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This image of a jovial Skeletor appeared in issue twenty-two of the UK He-Man Adventure comic, and is one of my favorite images of all time, mainly for its absurdity!
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10 November 2009
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"A Thorny Problem" #2
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Here are pages four to six of "A Thorny Problem", a story that appeared in issue seven of the UK Princess of Power comic. Predictably Flutterina and Perfuma work together, which serves the story well. I think I would have preferred to see their character altercation carried out across a much longer story. Also, if you are at all familiar with Star Trek you should be able to get the gag on the second-to-last panel on page six!
  
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09 November 2009
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The Cosmic Enforcer attacks!
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I was always a fan of the original artwork that appeared on the earlier Masters of the Universe figure card backs. I was overjoyed when one of my favorite images, that of Zodac attacking He-Man and Man-At-Arms, was featured as a pin-up in issue fifty-seven of the UK Masters of the Universe comic. It was a great shame that this style of artwork was dropped from the card backs after the first couple of waves of the toyline.
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