(20 June 1987)

Marvel UK, 1987 Series
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Price
0.32 GBP; 1.00 USD; 1.50 CAD
Pages
24
Indicia Frequency
weekly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Ltd.
Brand
Marvel
Editing
Richard Starkings (credited) (editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Action Force / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Simon Furman (credited)
Pencils
Kevin Hopgood (credited as Kev Hopgood)
Inks
Dave Harwood (credited)
Colors
Steve White (credited)
Letters
Richard Starkings (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Somewhere over eastern Tibet...
Genre
war
Characters
Action Force [Flint; Wild Bill]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story starts on front cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Mission Control / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Shang-Chi

Indexer Notes

Title, table of contents, summary, editor credits, and indicia, on the inside front cover.

Cold Comfort Part Three (Table of Contents: 2)

Action Force / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Simon Furman (credited)
Pencils
Kevin Hopgood (credited as Kev Hopgood)
Inks
Dave Harwood (credited)
Colors
Steve White (credited)
Letters
Richard Starkings (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Want to tuen back..?
Genre
war
Characters
Action Force [Wild Bill; Flint; Quick Kick; Trent]; Cobra [Michael Anke; Snow Serpent; Tele-Viper]
Reprints

Tele-Viper (Table of Contents: 3)

Intelligence Profile / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Herb Trimpe
Inks
Joe Delbeato
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
war
Characters
Tele-Viper
Reprints

Swampfire! (Table of Contents: 4)

Action Force / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Larry Hama (credited)
Pencils
Marie Severin (credited)
Inks
Andy Mushynsky (credited)
Colors
George Roussos (credited)
Letters
Rick Parker (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
While heading for the Florida Everglades in an Action Force tank,
Genre
war
Characters
Action Force [Duke; Roadblock; Deep Six; Wild Bill; Cutter; Tripwire; Mutt; Junkyard; Steeler; Doc; Breaker; Clutch]; Cobra [Cobra Commander; Destro; Baroness; Firefly; Wild Weasel; Dreadnoks [Zartan (leader); Torch; Buzzer; Ripper]; Major Bludd (imprisoned)]; R.L.; Chief (both county sheriffs)
Synopsis
An Action Force strike force begins to converge on Zartan's hideout in the Everglades as the Baroness goes to Springfield to speak with an imprisoned Bludd to arrange for an assassination. Destro and Firefly attack the Action Force using the new tanksmasher jets (Rattler), but are repelled by the Action Force in the W.H.A.L.E. and Dragonfly, as the Commander escapes their grasp yet again, with Firefly left behind to clean up the 'mess' at the hideout, as Zartan heads north with the Dreadnoks to locate the Pit.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Mail Call! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Flint

Indexer Notes

Letters from Octavio Herrera, Hadleigh Slade and Michael Miller.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Codename: Combat Colin / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Lew Stringer (credited)
Pencils
Lew Stringer (signed)
Inks
Lew Stringer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humour
Characters
Combat Colin; Semi-Automatic Steve

Indexer Notes

On the inside back cover.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Somewhere over eastern Tibet..."]
    Action Force
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Mission Control
  3. 2. Cold Comfort Part Three
    Action Force
  4. 3. Tele-Viper
    Intelligence Profile
  5. 4. Swampfire!
    Action Force
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Mail Call!
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
    Codename: Combat Colin
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David Haglund
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ramon Schenk