I just reread THE MICRONAUTS while on a long trip to the land of black metal

I'm taking a break before diving into NEW VOYAGES. Rereading Marvel's original SECRET WARS for the first time on 20-odd years. My Zeck fandom still in fine form.

tho' not everyone i know is a fan of kane's (marker) pen line,

Kane is always the best inker for Kane IMO

I remember these, though I only ever read one or two issues. Did the toys come before the comics or was the whole thing conceived as a cynical attempt to sell toys?

The toys came before the comics and Marvel got the license to make the comic like they did with Star Wars, Rom and later GI Joe and the Transformers.

Additionally the toys were from Japan, originally, branded as Micromen, if memory serves.

Ampzilla was a character who was much cooler as a toy than as a member of the evil Death Squad....

So basically this series is never going to be republished, is it?

http://that-figures.blogspot.com/2011/02/vintage-view-micronauts-time-traveler.html

This series (and ROM) is going to be republished.

TY. More interested in a collection of Kirby's 2001, personally, talking of titles not owned by Marvel that have never been reprinted (although I see online that other publishers produced Micronauts comics after Marvel, and that Marvel have now regained the licence).

A little while ago I bought the first instalment of this UK SF series, which predates the Marvel Comic by a couple of years

https://live.staticflickr.com/6085/6103404386_aa81f39f1c_b.jpg

Remember reading The Micronauts (possibly the second series) when I first got into Marvel comics aged 10 or so, and thinking it impossibly awesome while also understand not a frame of it.