“Beat The Devil” appeared in the 1984 Judge Dredd annual, published by IPC Magazines and Fleetway in 1983. The strip was written by John Wagner (under his T.B. Grover pseudonym) and illustrated by Carlos Ezquerra.
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Tales From The Galaxies was a science fiction anthology published in 1973 by Pan Books.
This anthology contains four stories (The Red Stuff by John Wyndham, Miss Inman and the Kloots by Amabel Williams-Ellis, The Odour of Thought by Robert Sheckley and Exploration Team by Murray Leinster) and also a comic strip reprinted from Astounding Stories (The Heritage, which was illustrated by Malcom Stokes). The cover was illustrated by Alan Lee.
There’s a single illustration in the book, which is a picture of a Kloot from the story that is about Kloots. It was drawn by Mike Jackson. It’s really lovely.
The book doesn’t mengion who wrote the comic strip that they reprint. All it says was that it was illustrated by Malcolm Stokes and originally published in Astounding Stories. It doesn’t even say when it was first printed and just lists it as copyright unknown. It also feels like they’ve not printed all of it. I quite enjoyed it though, due to dinosaurs, and the spacemen’s incredibly haggard faces.
THE END, maybe.
This Action Force annual was published by Marvel in the UK in 1987, which presumably makes it the 1988 Action Force annual.
Action Force comics were mostly just rebranded GI Joe comics. They were also mostly just men screaming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH at the very top of their voices. In less than 60 pages they manage to cram in about four hundred screaming men.
It is without doubt the most macho thing I have ever read.
This was a comic strip in the 1985 Smash Hits Yearbook, the very best yearbook of all. It was drawn by Kipper Williams, and features a delightful cast of 80s pop stars.
I’ve got a couple of other Smash Hits yearbooks (and No.1 Yearbooks, which were basically exactly the same, but somehow less exciting) which had a few cartoons and caricatures in them. They are all terrifying.
Lenny Henry’s Well-Hard Paperback was published in 1989 by Virgin Books. It was written by Lenny Henry, Stan Hey, Andrew Nickolds and Kim Fuller (you can see the full credits on the image below if you want).
I would have bee about 11 or 12 when I had this book, and I was completely obsessed by it. Even now after 20 years of trying to erase the shame I can still remember almost all of it word for word. The best bits of it were the two comic strips, Leroy of the Rovers and Captain Crucial.
This book was also the first place I ever saw the “Ian Fleming” joke, which is the best of all jokes.
