British Update: Long Hot Summer — Smash! Pow! It’s Fantastic Summer Special 1968!
*Power Comics: There was only one Summer Special for the Power Comics series Fantastic, and it’s rather clunky full title, as seen in the header above, indicates that by this time it had already devoured two of its weaker weekly siblings, in the hatch-match-and-despatch pattern so beloved of traditional British weeklies. This is “A Treasure-Store of Power Style Super-Hero Action and Laughs containing the nest of FANTASTIC, SMASH and POW weekly!”, as it says on the packet. Not common in any condition, dating from the dying days of the Power Comics regime, it’s exceedingly hard to find in high grade, as most known copies tend to have very rusty staples, as does, indeed, this copy. The staples have rusted through to the point that the cover is detached from the body of the comic, but structurally the rest of it is very sound. A difficult one to grade because of this dichotomy – like the proverbial curate’s egg, parts of it are excellent – but we’ve compromised on GD+, and are asking £25. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD