If you’re a fan of British comics it possibly hasn’t escaped your notice that 2000AD was launched this week(ish) in the year 1977. But which other British comics might you have seen on the shelves on or around that date, bearing in mind many British comic cover “publication dates” were then the day issues of a comic were taken off sale, not when they went on sale?
Well, wonder no longer, chums – and, indeed, pals – for your diligent and vigilant Michael Carroll (comic write and archivist) has anticipated your needs and invented a brand-new ChronoCamera™, a device that lets him peer into the past…
• Head over to his Rusty Staples blog and read Dateline: 26 Feb 1977 for the intel
• How British comic cover dates have (largely) lied to you for decades
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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.
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