ComicScene Summer Special Issue 5 out this week

By John Freeman on June 17, 2019

Comic fans can now pre-order the new 80-page ComicScene Summer Special (Issue 5) in print or digital, on sale this Thursday, 20th June, in selected newsagents, or from GetMyComics.

The magazine includes six comic strips, expanding that aspect of the magazine, and articles on Sweeney Toddler, Spider-Man, Batman, the upcoming Tammy & Jinty Special from Rebellion and Summer Specials in general, Fleetway Picture Library, Independent and small press comics.

Strips include a full “Captain Cosmic” adventure by Andy W Clift, “Lady Flintlock” Part One by Steve Tanner and Anthony Summey, “The Dummy” by Mike Powell and Phil Elliot, “Whackoman!” by Marc Jackson, “Scene it Before” by Alan Holloway and Ed Doyle and “The Zygons” by Jim Wilkins.

“There will be three summer specials,” says editor and publisher Tony Foster, “and if the comics prove popular we may continue them beyond August.

“The issue is a great jumping on point for new readers.”

• The magazine is available from 20th June and can be ordered at www.getmycomics.com/comicscene, any newsagent, picked up at WHSmith, McColls & Easons (Ireland), Forbidden Planet and other selected comic shops and the magazine can be added to any standing order at any comic shop through Diamond

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.