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no, you're spot on, i have some scanned on the action site from valiant/buster etc. from the week before action first came out. each issue would have 36 pages instead of the normal 32. by 1977, and the arrival of 2000ad, they'd gone, replaced by the far cheaper method of just losing four editorial o...

for some perverse reason i loved those, and the 'had coloured bits of rice krispies in it' star trek bar [sorry, can't find a photo].

from the clean lines on them, i'd say 21st april, 7th july and 21st july.

he also did some battle covers, i'll have a look, but i know i've scanned some covers he did of johnny red.

i agree on carlos, and i think he had a slightly weaker 'middle period' around the time of his return to dredd on 'the apocalypse war'. funnily enough, i was checking out all the major eazy stuff, and the penultimate episode isn't carlos, it looks like ron tiner trying to be carlos, much like colin ...

i find them strangely unoriginal.

anybody remember back in the autumn of 1985:

"hi, i'm yul brynner, and i'm dead..."

dave gibbons!

i have scans of all the tornado issues, but have never read them...something for the future i think.

pm box is empty btw, so may be a problem there.

he did two episodes of c=death game 1999 for action, plus some spot illustrations for the annuals.

once action went tame, he became the regular hook jaw artist, doing 50 issues.

he also did quite a lot in warrior, i seem to recall.

a swedish guy has just got in touch with me about some action stuff, he's making a comics doc [seemingly american in essence] with input from pat mills.

there's a teaser, it's on youtube:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BqnExP7Q0Ow

thanks captain, labours of love, all of them. i'm considering tornado next, but i know little about it, except it wasn't that good.

i keep meaning to dump it, but after 30 years it's become a habit.

pre-ordered mine on amazon for ?11.95, then waited through all the e-mails telling me it was unavailable and all those encouraging me to cancel my order. once published, they were duty bound to charge me the original price...absolute bargain.

it's very good too...

thanks fellas, i'm trying to follow up on all the action artists and writers as much as i can, because i want to write a feature. i'll probably do a list and post it here when i have.

but did anybody ever buy a summer special or a holiday special whist on holiday? i think on a wet trip to the south coast i managed to bag a 2000ad sci-fi special and an action summer special to ease the pain of sandbanks in the rain, 1978 i think.

Moose, don't do the loft thang. Buy more bookcases from Officeworld as that will allow you easy access to your comics and keep them more or less in the same place. i have them stored in the loft in big wooden trunks, which are indexed, but with a wife and two very young kids, they have to stay out ...