captain britain volume 1 birth of a legend

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The result is genre material that fills pages, but little more over the first ten episodes.

He’s heavy on the cod-Shakespearean dialogue alternating with fractured sentences indicating stress and jocular patter mid-fight, and Trimpe’s layouts imitate Jack Kirby’s storytelling, although are less dynamic and more cluttered. Claremont’s origin and background to Captain Britain is a fusion of those of Spider-Man and Thor. Both creators work very much with the template of Marvel superhero comics from a decade previously. How does it read today? Well, an idea of how the strip chimed with the times is represented by our hero, university student Brian Braddock, being a pipe smoker in 1976 as Britain’s disaffected youth turned punk. The launch was a really big deal, with Stan Lee being sent over to the UK to promote the comic. If Marvel couldn’t employ British creators on the strip, Chris Claremont, then not long into his career, was a renowned Anglophile and was at least born in London, and artist Herb Trimpe was at the time living in a lighthouse in Cornwall. This collection includes a reproduction of the mask given away in 1976 should you choose to cut it out of your graphic novel and masquerade as Captain Britain.

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This followed the predominant British anthology format with an eight page Captain Britain lead strip backed up by the adventures of other characters, and the traditional free gift was supplied with the first issue. UK publications re-issuing Marvel’s US material had been running for four years before the plunge was taken into presenting an original strip specifically generated for the UK market.