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PAST PERFECT MONTHLY #157. [68 pages] October 2018.

Contents for this issue:

□ FANTASTIC AND TERRIFIC No.88: Thor 138 (cont) – 139 (Trolls), Avengers King-Size Special #1 (cont), Avengers #53 (X-Men vs Avengers/ Magneto), The Perfect Crime Journey into Mystery #83.

□ TV CENTURY 21 No.69

□ MWOM #38: Hulk #90-91 (Abomination), FF Annual #1 (cont).

□ MASTER OF KUNG FU #26 (Fah Lo Suee)

□ SPIDER-MAN #26 (Crime Master/Green Goblin)

□ DOCTOR STRANGE Marvel Premier #10 (Shuma-Gorath)

□ SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS: Revenge of the Cybermen Part 1

□ TV TORNADO No.11: Man From U.N.C.L.E. “Creeping Cloud Affair”, The Green Hornet “Surprise For Kato”, Phantom “Astronaut And The Pirates” Part 3, Flash Gordon “Great Space Robbery” Part 3, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea “Grip Of Death”, Magnus Robot Fighter “Who Is Magnus?”, Bonanza “Shadow Of A Gunman”, Tarzan “And The Little Warriors”

□ FANTASTIC FOUR #283 (Psycho Man)

□ LION Part 19: You Know Their Names But Do You Know What They Did?, Zip Nolan, Highway Patrol, Mowser, The Priceless Puss, Mr. Smith, Agent 005, Morg “Journey To The Edge Of The World”

□ MARVEL TEAM-UPs [feature looking at the history of the Avengers and the (New) X-Men]: Avengers #70-71 (Kang/Grand Master/ Squadron Sinister); X-Men #125 (“Something Awful on Muir Island”)

□ REALITY CHECK: Part 3 Red Dwarf “Back to Reality”

□ MEMORY LANE: Star Trek TNG Season 4 Episode 2; Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4 Episode 19; Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 13

 PAST PERFECT started life more than ten years ago (November 2008) as reviews from the floor of 64. Its remit was to review the very earliest of stories from Marvel Comics, but to do so through the popular British black-and-white reprint weeklies Fantastic and Terrific, two of the titles in the Power Comics range. These featured: Thor, X-Men, Iron Man, Sub-Mariner, Avengers, Dr Strange, Giant-Man and the Wasp, Tales of the Watcher, and the Hulk. UK-created stories of special security agent Don Starr and the Missing Link (later Johnny Future) provided back-up.

From issue No.10, reviews of Fantastic and Terrific alternated in each issue, Fantastic in odd numbered issues, Terrific in even numbered ones.

Issue No.17 began a new feature called “Not Quite Meanwhile” which looked at other fantasy-related material outside the Marvel Universe.

This became sufficiently popular that with issue No.42 the magazine expanded its remit to cover more than just the Power Comics. To mark this change, the title of the magazine became PAST PERFECT. The page count now went up to an average of 28 pages.

With issue No.63, TV Century 21 joined the line-up on a regular basis, with a single issue of the famous comic being reviewed every month.

From 94 onwards it now came out three times a month, with each of the three issues covering different material and with a different featured item: the first featured TV21, the second The Mighty World of Marvel (from issue No.1), and the third the Power Comics. The page count was now 20 to 24 pages on average (occasionally straying into the 30s).

From issue No.134 onwards, the magazine became PAST PERFECT MONTHLY, averaging 80 pages per issue, and gathering together all the various elements from the three-times-a-month days. It continues in that format to this day.

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