American Update: Babes, Bullets and Bloodshed! Punisher’s origin in Marvel Preview #2 plus more Marvel and Warren Mags!
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: Small but significant top-ups to Marvel and Warren’s lines of magazine-sized comics, headlined by Marvel Preview #2, the issue of Marvel’s ‘Showcase’ mag which featured the first full-length origin of the Punisher, then one of Marvel’s hottest new characters! Behind a splendid Gray Morrow cover, Gerry Conway and Tony DeZuniga bring us an action-packed story in which, as a bonus, we find out how Frank Castle went crackerdog. In addition, the back-up is the first appearance of Howard Chaykin’s rogueish paladin, Dominic Fortune. This copy is FN+ at £40. More Marvel mags include Haunt of Horror, and Monsters Unleashed, with Gabriel Demon Hunter, Tigra the Were-Woman, Son of Satan and their pals, and from Warren we have Monster World (no comics, but features on Hammer Horror, the 50s Superman TV show and the Ghost in The Invisible Bikini, among others), and Vampirella #2, with the curvaceous bloodsucker from Drakulon in fine fettle.