Hi all.
Back in 1995, after Marvel US closed down the Marvel UK imprint, the company to whom the rights for reprinting US market Marvel material fell to for the UK was Panini. That’s right. Panini. The same Italian company which UK readers probably know better for making Sticker Albums and trading cards. Anybody who's walked into a WH Smith in recent years (or any other Newsagent in the UK) will know that they currently do a really good trade in those reprints. They’ve even reprinted some DC Comics material.
But it has all been reprints. Not new work.
Bar one.
Spectacular Spider-Man began life as a series based up the 1990s Spider-man animated series, originally screened on Fox Kids in the US. It re-told the episodes from that series in panel form. And I have to admit that I didn’t really give it a look myself, for that reason. But when the animated series came to an end, something interesting happened. They started producing new material themselves...
It started with the first UK written Captain Britain story in a decade, and has now led to an ongoing run of new material. Granted, it isn't set in mainstream continuity like Marvel UK used to be, but it is a start.
Ed Hammond, editor of Panini UK as it is now, has done an interview with Newsarama about where they are at, right now. It's all quite interesting, and more importantly will hopefully give American readers a bit of a clearer picture of the market in the UK. The artwork certainly looks pretty good.
Check it out:
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