Marvel Superheroes was the final incarnation of their very first UK weekly comic which had originally started as the Mighty World of Marvel back in 1972 having briefly been published for a short 23 weeks as simply Marvel Comic before transforming into the monthly Marvel Superheroes monthly until it's cancellation and merger with The Daredevils.
There was one tie-in Annual published in 1980 and classed as the 1981 edition as per the British practice of using the following year for longer shelf life though not really necessary as the date was not printed on the cover.
The comic contains three stories., kicking off with a reprint of The X-Men from September 1963 which had seen print more than a few times in Fantastic from Power Comics back in the sixties and Marvel UK itself. The story was produced in two parts book-ending the other two features and each section uses a mixture of black & white combined with blue for part one and red for part two.
Next up was a story from the first series of Ms Marvel which started in 1977. This saw carol Danvers then still an unknown newbie in the Marvel Universe use her powers of premonition to stop a radioactive truck killing thousands of people as the result of sabotage. Carol is confronted by The Vision who thinks she is a super-villain and the inevitable hero on hero super-fight starts while the real villain nearly succeeds.
Finally in this short volume there is a seventies Avengers story, A Ghost Of Stone in which a the Black Knight now made of stone returns to exact his revenge on the heroes that abandoned him to his fate, but not is all as it seems. When is it?
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