British Update: It’s Fantastic! – Early-mid run issues restocked!
*Power Comics: Fantastic, the 1967 Power Comics weekly which served as many readers’ introduction to the Marvel characters, is restocked from its second issue through to #45, with only a few numbers missing from the run. These are averaging a sound and attractive VG/FN condition, with in most cases only slightly rusty staples being the flaw precluding a higher grade. In addition to the reprints of classic Iron Man, Thor and X-Men stories, the series also features newly-created anti-hero The Missing Link, who evolved later into the more acceptably heroic Johnny Future, strikingly illustrated by Luis Bermejo, and, rumour has it, several pin-ups in this run were illustrated by a baby Barry Smith (before the ‘Windsor’), though since the calibre of the pin-up art generally is striking in the wrong way, it’s honestly hard to tell!