Back in April a team of British War Comic enthusiasts organised by Justin Marriott produced an oversized volume covering the various picture library books and weekly comics that contained stories of Brits at war. This contained a couple of hundred individual reviews of individual comics amongst other features .
Now Justin has launched a fanzine covering the same subject with features, interviews and reviews of the war comics genre. This is a welcome addition to the on-going revival of originally produced comics and magazines by British creators and fans.
This magazine covers classic out of print picture libraries and looks at the latest releases from the still published Commando series which passed the 5,000 issue mark a few years back and recently had it's 60th anniversary. This shows that there is still a demand for these types of stories with a mixture of new material and reprints.
This edition also has an article which looks at the coverage of the Vietnam war in American comics including titles such as Daredevil as well as Sgt Fury. Interestingly there's also an article from American writer and fan James Reasoner about his appreciation of the British output.
Other articles in include a look at the weird and wonderful such as the time travelling Gladiators from The Lion & Eagle comic which was one of my favourites and needs collecting one of these days. Johnny Red also gets some well deserved coverage but the most entertaining feature just has to be Tusk Force in which looks at the role of elephants in British war comics. Well done that man!
Rating 5 Stars (Recommended)
Both this and the Volume One book are available from Amazon.
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