It's sometimes difficult to get your head around just how fundamentally different US and UK comics were in the 1970's and 1980's.
The main reason was (and probably still is) that UK comics had a frenetic weekly publication schedule that spewed out a huge amount of material in a short space of time.
And when a UK comic relied on a US parent company to provide the raw material to be published, you can appreciate how UK titles like the fondly-remembered Spider-Man Comics Weekly were destined to be padded with brilliant back-up strips that opened you eyes to other stuff your little prepubescent mind had never even heard of.
Of course, Marvel UK titles were also prone to the British malaise of continual mergers and changes in title.
Disappointingly, the "Super Spider-Man TV Comic" which came into being with issue 450 [October 21, 1981] only paid minor lip-service to the sensational live-action "The Amazing Spider-Man" TV series, and made virtually no mention at all of the 1978-79 Japanese live-action "Spider-Man" series.
Funny, that...
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