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PAST PERFECT IS A REVIEW FANZINE DEVOTED TO ALL THINGS FANTASTIC, ESPECIALLY FROM THE 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
THIS ISSUE: #143. Cover: Master of Kung Fu [76 pages] August 2017.
FANTASTIC AND
TERRIFIC No.74: Thor #131 (Colonisers), Avengers #36 (Ultroids), X-Men #38 (Factor Three), Dr Strange #162 (cont), Hulk #98-99 (Living Lightning).
TV CENTURY 21 No.55
MWOM #24: Hulk #71 (Leader), FF #12 (Hulk), DD #3
(Owl).
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MASTER OF KUNG FU Marvel Special Edition
#15 (Origin)
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SPIDER-MAN #13 (Mysterio)
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STAR TREK Episode 24: Space Seed
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SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS: Robot Part 3
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FANTASTIC FOUR #269 (Terminus)
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LION Part 5:
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MTUs: Avengers #52 (Grim Reaper—origin);
X-Men #104-105 (Magneto/Firelord)
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JAMES BOND The Man with the Golden Gun
PAST PERFECT started life twelve 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 PP 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) so that on a monthly basis readers were getting anywhere from 60 to 80 pages of material.
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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