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[The Baron]

Hmm... didn't that make his hair turn white?

What a diamond fuckin' tale that was. That and 'The Sarge'

[Quickfire]

Hmm... didn't that make his hair turn white?

What a diamond fuckin' tale that was. That and 'The Sarge'

Indeed & agreed.

I always felt Nightshade owed a little to the adventures of Charley Bourne's sea-faring cousin and Johnny Red's in the Arctic, and The Sarge to that of Charley himself (remember the Smith 70 character who lasted a good while until copping it while reading his Latin books?) All great BAF fare.

I suppose I'm just connecting hair turning white with hair going VERY grey.

[The Baron]

Dunno, every single one of the Sarge's platoon got done in, didn't they? That's what made it such a good story. All these great characters being whittled down until there were none left.

I'm gonna have to re-read it now!

[Chopper]

Sigh. Me too now. There was a story in a (83-85?) holiday special or Annual about Anzio, iirc. US soldiers that survive a mine going off. Great story and pretty damned spooky. Wasn't there a sister mag to Battle that touched on scary sh*t? THAT level of spooky. Not scary, spooky.

[The Baron]

Scream?

[Chopper]

I think that was it, by jove. Not bad at all, mate. I'll dig out that Anzio story too, I think.

PS, bang on, Baz. I remember tales from the thirteenth floor. Friggin awesome comic. Wow, I'm reliving 1984. 12 year old bliss.

[Red Laser]

Simon Furman was its editor before he went on to write the majority of Transformers for the UK comic Chopper.

[Chopper]

I've been busy reading

http://cosmobells.blogspot.com/2008/06/scream.html

what a waste, a great comic. Its hard to imagine IPC writers and artists working for Marvel. It just seems odd.

[Red Laser]

Apparently there used to be joint sports events until 2000 AD acquired artists from Transformers who wanted to draw more than "bloody robots".

I re-edited my post as I got this info from one of the UK reprinted tpbs that are hard to find now.

[Sundance]

Marvel UK was never exclusively Transformers though. there were UK orginated Joe, Thundercats, Real Ghostbusters and Galaxy Rangers strips as well as non-tie-in stuff like Dragon's Claws, Death's Head, Sleaze Bros. and so on...