NOV 5, 2026
CAPTAIN BRITAIN WAS BRITAIN-ONLY FOR OVER A YEAR — AMERICA COULD NOT BUY HIS FIRST COMIC!
Marvel built a hero exclusively for Britain, then left its biggest market locked outside for fifteen months.
Captain Britain Weekly #1 (week ending October 13, 1976), by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe for Marvel UK: Brian Braddock debuts in a title sold only in Britain — his first American-published appearance did not arrive until Marvel Team-Up #65, in the same story that introduced Arcade.
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