July 21st, 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. ***Many were the things that happened, this week in 1976.For instance, Jimmy Carter was nominated for President at the Democratic National Convention in New York.Elsewhere, Albert Spaggiari and his gang broke into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice.The 1976 Olympics began in Montreal and 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci made history by gaining the first of seven perfect scores.East Timor became the 27th province of Indonesia.Viking 1 successfully landed on Mars.American criminal Gary Gilmore - whose eyes would later be immortalised in song by the Adverts - was arrested for murdering two men in Utah.And, of course, the world was introduced to the first of a series of articles in The Times which demonstrated that a number of paintings attributed to Samuel Palmer were, in fact, the work of master forger Tom Keating.When it came to the record industry, the…