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Greg75
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Hi everyone. In the 80's i used to go to a newsagent and get comics that were a different size to nomal comics they were compilations of stories such as Horror or sci-fi. They were black and white with colour covers. Can anyone give me any ideas of who the publisher may have been? This is in the UK by the way?

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Alan Class comics?
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Sounds like Alan Class comics to me too. Creepy Worlds, Uncanny Tales, Astounding Stories etc

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Creepy or Eerie had a UK version for a short while. But they wouldn't be sci-fi.

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L. Miller had a few titles reprinting American stories in b&w behind colour covers. Mystic; Spellbound.
Top Sellers had Fantastic Tales which had a lot of ACG reprints.
ABC had Starling Terror Tales but there was only 1 issue here. It featured in the anti horror comics campaign here.
And Miller also had a pocket library size title, Marvel Tales with American sf reprints.

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Marvel Digest Series????
1980- 82 ??
Colour cover,Black and White inside;52 pages
Many titles including Science fiction,horror and super heroes.
"Star Heroes" (featured Battlestar Galactica and the Micronauts) as one example.

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It might have been Portman, a British publisher who had a go at reprinting black and white American horror comics. https://www.comics.org/publisher/4591/

Instead it might have been American publisher Eerie, who published black and white horror comics with very lurid covers.
https://www.comics.org/publisher/1813/

Click on the links, then click on each title to see if any of the covers ring a bell.

More late seventies than eighties, but lots of comics hung around in those days.

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