Comic Scene #1 (April 2019) Out Now

The latest issue of the British comics magazine Comic Scene is now out and in major newsagents which is a big coup for a small publisher. Hopefully this will be a success that will be followed by comic fans in the UK.

The "Zero issue" was previously distributed and on sale for a couple of months over Christmas/New year, now Comic Scene goes on a monthly schedule.

Each edition has a theme, this one is devoted to all those sporting characters that were so beloved by so many readers, Roy of the Rovers (recently relaunched by Rebellion, Billy's Boots and so on. If that's your thing there's plenty for you here. I didn't read any of the related articles because I have never been interested in sport and always skipped any sports stories in any of the comics I read. That's me.

However there's plenty of other stuff to keep my interest including part one of a series outlining the history of Marvel UK. The early years are familiar but I wasn't aware that Stan Lee wasn't too keen on the Power Comics line where his characters shared pages with humour strips. A cultural divide I suppose. Most British comics were anthologies, many mixed genres which is why they succesful in their time.

I happen to be a big fan of Power Comics and purchased Wham!, Smash! & Pow! religiously back in the sixties when I had the pocket money. The other two less frequently as I collected more than a few Marvel US editions when I could.

There's also a nice little article about "free gifts" that occasionally came with our comics. They were never what they promised and the free drink given with the first copy of Cor!! was disgusting but we always got them when we could.

Other articles cover 80 years of the Batman, the new Shazam & Captain Marvel movies plus Umbrella Academy. As always there's the Indy comics section and more.

Grab a copy and support the British comics industry!

You can still order issue #0 from the publishers:

https://comicscene.org/back-issues/