posted May 08, 2003 03:59 PM            

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Originally posted by Cave Carson:
India Ink:

The comic you described must be SUPER HEROES VERSUS SUPER VILLAINS # 1, from 1966.

Beautiful squarebound giant with a feast of reprints, all in the order you just described.

FLY MAN--"The Creature From The Abyss"
"The Fly Man's Partners in Peril!" Part 1
"Battle Of The Super-Heroes!" Part 2
"The Wicked Web Of The Wily Spider!" Part 3
THE WEB--"The Mad Caper Of The Madman"
THE SHIELD--"Evilo, The Tempter" art by Sekowsky

I picked one of these up a few years back, and it's been the crown jewel of my Mighty Comics collection ever since.

Now....if I could only find a copy of ARCHIE GIANT SERIES # 142 from Oct 1966. This is a special filled with Pureheart the Powerful tales. One of these days......

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After my original post I went home and looked through the price guide trying to find what title this big collection might be under--tried Mighty Comics, Mighty Crusaders, Flyman, Archie Giant Series--all with no luck, nothing listed there could be my favourite comicbook. Then I decided to look under Super Heroes and voila! I found SUPER HEROES VS SUPER VILLAINS--just as Cave Carson, I concluded that this must indeed be the one!

Funny thing, since another comic I loved from that same timeframe is listed under the title SUPER-HEROES (published by Dell). This is another comic that walked into our house without its cover (probably at the same time, maybe they were from a grab bag at a school bazaar, I'm not sure). But I always knew of it as FAB FOUR (it had a short run but the only one I ever read was number one), where four teens inhabit the bodies of four super-powered androids.

I wonder if attacks on the name of "Super Hero" by Archie and Dell with these titles, prompted DC and Marvel to work together in securing joint ownership of the name?

posted May 08, 2003 11:07 PM               

-Steve