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<![CDATA[Rampage]]>Rampage Weekly

Publisher: Marvel UK
Publication Dates: 1977 – June 7, 1978
Number of Issues Published: 34 (#1 – #34)
Color: Colour
Dimensions: Magazine Size
Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Rampage Monthly

Publisher: Marvel UK
Publication Dates: 1978 – December 1982
Number of Issues Published: 54 (#1 – #54)
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Magazine
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine

Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database

Rampage Weekly was launched by Marvel UK as a weekly title on 19th October 1977, featuring reprints of the American Marvel titles ‘The Defenders’ and ‘The Man Called Nova’. In common with other newly launched titles of the era (such as Complete Fantastic Four), the first two issues contained free gifts, small plastic model aeroplane kits (a concorde in issue #1, a ‘Stratocruiser’ in #2). The weekly lasted 34 issues until the end of May 1978, and it was relaunched as Rampage Monthly in July of the same year.

Rampage Monthly initially featured reprints from the US black & white magazine ‘Rampaging Hulk’ (starring the Hulk, initially backed up by The Defenders and Nova (continued from the weekly, obviously), then Dr Strange (replacing Nova), and later (from issue #8) the ‘All-New, All different X-Men’ (until then, British Marvel readers had not yet seen the ‘new’ X-Men, who had actually debuted in 1975 in the US). The X-Men eventually became the magazine’s lead strip, while the Hulk (who effectively had star billing in many of the early issues, his logo being bigger than the actual magazine logo!) was dropped once the magazine reprints dried up, and replaced by other features including Luke Cage: Hero for Hire, Iron Fist and The Thing (the latter starring in team-up strips reprinted from ‘Marvel Two-in-One’). The title was revamped slightly when the Hulk strips were dropped, becoming ‘Rampage Magazine’ from issue #28.

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