Terrific and the Avengers

 Not touched on in any of my Avengers posts (I don't think so) is the fact that the team appeared in Odhams weekly comic Terrific.

According to Wikipedia:

"Terrific was a weekly British comic published by Odhams Press' Power Comics imprint in 1967–1968. Terrific was similar in format to its sister title Fantastic, which had started publication two months earlier. The two titles were quite unlike other British comics of the time, consisting mainly of material reprinted from American Marvel Comics, serving as an introduction to many of Marvel's superhero characters. In this  respect, Fantastic and Terrific can be considered precursors of the Marvel UK weeklies such as The Mighty World of Marvel that appeared beginning in 1972."

Now, although the Avengers had some reprints in Class Comics, which count as their first official UK appearances Terrific featured them at the same time.  As far as I am aware the team ran for the full 43 issue run which was five years before Marvel UK ushered in their first appearance in their Mighty World of Marvel in 1973 when the Avengers first appearance as a team was reprinted in three (b&w) parts. Later the team got their own weekly comic of which I have a full run.

here are a selection of some of the covers and Avengers splash pages -you will note that, as was normal in weekly comics, one U.S. full colour issue was divided into 3-4 b&w reprint parts.

As a quick end note I ought to point out that no matter how many times Ebay dealers declare "Rare -First Appearance of Kang" it is a lie. As Rama Tut you need to buy Fantastic Four #19 or Avengers #8.  Getting black and white UK reprints separated into 3-4 parts and thinking you have a gold mine in your hands is...misleading yourself. I know two people who purchased the 1970s Marvel weekly Avengers "first appearance of Kang" for "quite a bit" (I understand £25 and £30 respectively) have now found that the comics are selling for a maximum of £4-5.00 depending on the dealer.

The same applies to the UK Alan Class black and white reprints -they are never going to make back what you pat for them. The money and investment lies with the U.S. original books and another warning: if the U.S. comics you see have a printed UK cover price it seems collectors look down on those.