Over recent years I've collected a lot of Marvel UK's output as at the time they were originally published I was for the most part buying a lot of the US editions which were in colour, readily available and in advance of the British comics story-wise.
One exception to this so far has been the Titans comic with it's landscape format which really doesn't appeal to me. The Annual is an obvious exception. This is a full colour publication and contains two complete stories the first being a reprint of the American Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1968) and the other a Black Widow story from Amazing Adventures #8 (1971).
The Fantastic Four story. Let There Be ..Life is a classic which introduces readers to the Negative Zone, Annihilus. of course sees the birth of Franklin Richards son of Reed and Sue Richards. All founding elements of the Marvel Universe created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in their 100 plus issue run of that title.
The Black Widow story is much shorter despite having the longer title; How Shall I KIll Thee? Let Me Count The Ways and was chosen for it's appropriate length rather than anything else. The character has grown into something of interest in modern Marvel and in particular because of her role in their cinematic universe. However back then I was not particularly interested and this story was all a bit, well "meh".
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