Battle Picture Weekly was the sister-comic to 2000AD and the home of such classics as Johnny Red and Charley's War. The title began on 8th March 1975 and went through several guises. On the 23rd of October 1976 it merged with the comic Valiant, then on the 19th of November 1977 the title became Battle Action. On July 15th 1981 the comic was renamed Battle. On the 4th of June 1983 Battle began a four-part Action Force strip to promote the new Palitoy line. A further five promotional mini-comics were given away and on the 8th of October 1983 the title became Battle Action Force.
The Action Force strips ran for over three years until the storyline climaxed spectacularly with the epic Operation Deep Cover; a massive marketing exercise which never came to fruition. The title reverted to Battle on the 6th of December 1986. On January 24th 1987 Battle with Storm Force was born. The comic ran until the 8th of January 1988 and then merged with Eagle, where Storm Force continued for many years. There are a few gap weeks in the 1980 run due to a printers strike. A full list can be found here.
Listed here are the comic galleries. Hit F11 to view as full screen.
001 Action Force
002 Ironblood's Revenge!
003 Jungle Ambush
004 Desert Victory
005 Peril at Dragon Rocks
006 Space Battle
007 Operation Bloodhound
008 Desert Strike
009 Codename Shark
010 Codename Sky Raider
011 Attack!
012 Tank Hunt
013 The Black Major
014 Sea Fury
015 Operation Spearhead
016 Codename Quickfire
017 Micro-Comic
018 Jungle Terror
019 Death Castle
020 Codename Tracker
021 Operation Sealion
022 Codename Beaver
023 Red Jackal
024 Operation Ironblood
025 Ambush!
026 Crossfire!
027 Operation Claymore
028 Codename Kraken
029 Menace of the Baron
030 Assault on Atoll Z
031 Codename Moondancer
032 Hawk's Challenge
033 Codename Stakeout
034 World Enemy No. 1
035 Top-Sergeant Duke
036 Operation Snakebite
037 The Baroness
038 Death of the Hawk
039 The Terror of Cobra
040 Gung-Ho
041 Revenge of the Red Shadows
042 The Great Cobra Robbery
043 River of Serpents
044 Operation Stubborn
045 The Hacienda Hit
046 Death in South America
047 Arctic Terror
048 Cobra Gold
049 Death Beam
050 Snake Hunt
051 Storm Shadow
052 Codename The Scrapyard
053 Venom of Cobra
054 Target Torpedo
055 Jungle of Doom
056 Snow Job
057 Operation Shield
058 Major Bludd
059 Showdown for the Shadows!
060 London in Peril
061 Laser Trooper
062 The New Boy!
063 Death to the Legion!
064 The Big Battle
065 Operation Australia
066 The Ultimate Crime
067 The Curse
068 Cobra Victory
069 The Hornet's Nest
070 Duke's Revenge
071 School for Snakes
072 Manhattan Transfer
073 The Raid!
074 Project Highball
075 Maximum Kill!
076 Doom Plague!
077 The Fangs of Cobra
078 Storm Shadow
079 Operation Liberty
080 Assassin!
081 The Peace Rocket
082 Operation Deep Cover
083 Sea Wars!
084 Battle for the Skies!
085 Death in the Everglades
086 Crisis in Space!
087 Battleground
088 Ground Zero
089 Combat Files
090 Battlefiles
091 Datafiles
092 Datafiles II
093 The File on the Baron
094 Reports
095 Adverts
096 Competitions
097 Games
098 Gifts
099 Posters
100 Covers
