May 29th, 1976 - Marvel UK, 50 years ago this week.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Fasten your seat belts!Steve Does Comics is about to go supersonic!And so was Washington, DC, exactly fifty years ago - because it was the week in which its Concorde service was launched!Elsewhere, in the land that developed Concorde in conjunction with the UK, the so-called Judgement of Paris pitted French and Californian wines against each other in a blind taste-test. And, to the shock of all humanity, the Californian wines won! Sacré bleu! Not to mention Sacré RoséSpeaking of the United States, President Gerald Ford defeated challenger Ronald Reagan in the Republican presidential primaries for Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.It's the big one, as the FF move into a house designed to send the whole world blind!Why such a machine is in the form of a house, I've no idea.I also have no memory of the Mole Man's staff being cosmic. Is that just something made up for the front cover?…