In 1972 the British publishing arm of Marvel comics was created forming The Mighty World of Marvel. A few weeks later The Spider-Man Comics Weekly was released. Later publications included, The Avengers, Dracula Lives, Planet of the Apes, The Savage Sword of Conan, The Super-Heroes and  The Titans. Many other reprint issues where formed.

Things changed when Captain Britian Weekly was launched with original material. Star Wars Weekly was launched soon after the film with the titles changing to The Empire Strikes Back weekly then finally changing to Return of the Jedi.

Some of the Marvel UK comics came with centrefold posters. These are only included in this list if they are glossy inserts rather than centre page colour stapled posters. Although the comic itself would be incomplete without this stapled poster, we have not deemed it as a stand alone free gift such as a badge, mask or stickers.

Free Gifts uploaded to date...

• Amazing Spider-Man weekly #1 - (17th Feb 1973) - Spider-Man Mask (paper/tissue mask)
• Amazing Spider-Man weekly #2 - (24th Feb 1973) - Spider-Man Tracer Plane
• Spider-Man and his Super-Heroes #158 - (21st Feb 1976) - Spider-Man poster
• Spider-Man and Hulk Team-Up #438 - (29th July 1981) - Spider-Man mask (mounted on card sheet)
• Super Spider-Man TV comic #450 - (21st Oct 1981) - Spider-Man Boomerang
• Super Spider-Man TV comic #476 - (21st April 1982) - Spider-Man Jigsaw
• Spider-Man #500 - (6th Oct 1982) - Spider-Man badge (white badge - crawling flat)
• Spider-Man #520 - (23rd Feb 1983) - Spider-man badge (Spider-man symbol)
• Spider-Man #529 - (27th April 1983) - Spider-man badge (white badge - left handshake)
• Spider-Man #540 - (13th July 1983) - The Thing badge (white badge, orange face)
• Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends #553 - (12th Oct 1983)- Spider-Man badge (white badge - right handshake)
• Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends #554 - (19th Oct 1983)- Magic Flyer (red ring frisbee)
• Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends #555 - (26th Oct 1983) - 3x stickers (Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Captain America)
• Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends #561 - (7th Dec 1983) - 3x stickers (Green Goblin, Dr Doom, Mephisto)
• Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends #567 - (18th Jan 1984) - 3x stickers (The Vision, Captain American, Thor)
• Spider-Man #607 - (21st Oct 1984)  - rub-down trasnfers
• Spider-Man #608 - (3rd Nov 1984) - 'The Amazing Spider-man', diamond shaped sticker
• Spider-Man #625 - (2nd March 1985) - Flikka Pics card (lizard/loin)
• The Spider-Man comic #634 - (4th May 1985) - sheet of rub-down transfers - (Green Goblin) & centre page insert
• The Spider-Man comic #635 - (11th May 1985) - sheet of rub-down transfers - (Electro)
• Spidey comic #652 - (7th Sept 1985) - Kellogg's Model Airliner
• Spidey comic #654 - (21st Sept 1985) -free badge - 2x versions (spider-man swinging or Dr Doom)

• The Mighty Thor #1 - (20th April 1983) - red Spinner Frisbee
• The Mighty Thor #2 - (27th April 1983) - Thor sticker (light blue sticker, Thor flying with hammer)
• The Mighty Thor #3 - (4th May 1983) - Thor sticker (coloured sticker, Thor throwing hammer)

• Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 1 #1  (7th Oct 1972) - Hulk T-shirt transfer (2x variants)
• Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 1 #2 - (14th Oct 1972) - Spider-Man T-shirt transfer (2x variants)
• Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 1 #3 - (21st Oct 1972) - sheet with a set of 12 marvel stickers (2x variants)
• Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 1 #198 - (14th July 1976) - reprints Incredible Hulk #181 - 1st app Wolverine
• Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 2 #1 - (June 1983) - Cyclops sticker
• Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 2 #10 - (March 1984)- Spider-Man badge

• Star Wars weekly #2 - (15th Feb 1978) - T.I.E Fighter cut out model

• Star Wars: Return of the Jedi weekly #9 - (17th Aug 1983) - Darth Vader badge

Amazing Spider-Man Weekly

The Amazing Spider-Man weekly started with issue #1 in (17th Feb 1973) and ran for 666 issues until finally ending the series run under the title Spidey Comic on (14th Dec 1985). It has gone through 14No.  title changes while maintaining the same issue numbering.

• Amazing Spider-Man Weekly: issues (1 - 157)
• Super Spider-Man with the Superheroes: issues (158 - 198)
• Super Spider-Man and The Titans: issues (199 - 230)
• Super Spider-Man and Captain Britian: issues (231 - 310)
• Spider-Man comic: issues (311 - 333)
• Spectacular Spider-Man weekly: issues (334 - 375)
• Spider-Man and Hulk weekly: issues (376 - 417)
• Spider-Man and Hulk Team-Up: issues (418 - 449)
• Super Spider-Man TV Comic: issues (450 - 499)
• Spider-Man: issues (500 - 552)
• Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends: issues (553 - 578)
• Spider-Man: issues (579 - 633)
• Spider-Man comic: issues (634 - 650)
• Spidey Comic: issues (651 - 666)

The Mighty Thor

This UK comic started in (20th April 1983) and ran for 35 issues until (11th Jan 1984).

The X-Men comic merged with issue #20 and re-titled the series to Thor/X-men.

Mighty World of Marvel

The Mighty World Of Marvel was the first title of the Marvel UK British comic book series published first by Marvel UK and then by Panini Comics. Initially debuting on (30 September 1972), cover dated (7th Oct 1972),  and ran until 1984.

Volume 1: (weekly) 329 issues -  (7th Oct 1972 - 17th Jan 1979)           

Volume 2: (monthly) 17 issues - (June 1983 - Oct 1984)

         Volume 3: 86 issues           Volume 4: 62 issues

Volume 5: 30 issues                Volume 6: 19 issues           Volume 7: 22 issues

Star Wars weekly

Star Wars Weekly was the first title in run of Marvel UK's Star Wars series.  This reprinted strips from the american monthly title, breaking up the stories between weekly issues. Some original stories where also inserted.

The 1st series ran from (8th Feb 1978) for 117 issues.

The title then changed to The Empire Strikes Back with the numbering system staying the same & the 1st issue of this series being issue #118.

The Empire Strikes back weekly ran from issue #118 until issue #139, after this it became a monthy title with issue #140 until its final issie with issue #171.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi weekly

The Star Wars: Return of the Jedi weekly ran for 155 issues.