Battle Picture Weekly
#8 March 1975 [1]
(8 March, 1975)
IPC,
1975 Series
- Price
- 0.06 GBP
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- Weekly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IPC Magazines Ltd.
- Editing
- Dave Hunt
![Cover Thumbnail for Battle Picture Weekly (IPC, 1975 series) #8 March 1975 [1]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/281/w200/281773.jpg?-5656954394668557801)
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foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Battle action blasts into action
- Synopsis
- A welcome and introductory page outlining what's in store for the next three issues of the all new Battle Picture Weekly.
There is also the opportunity to Win a super prize for readers who have sent in a letter about war stories if it gets published as 'Letter of the week'. Prizes consist either a 2-Wave transistor radio, a Polaroid camera or a super boy's watch; runners up receive a Airfix 24th scale kit of a Spitfire or a Messerschmitt or if preferred a 1 pound postal order.
Also there is a reminder to place your regular order for a copy at your Newsagents today.
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D-Day Dawson / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The big day at last, lads!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Steve Dawson (Main character)
- Synopsis
- 6th June 1944, Sergeant Steve Dawson is wounded, leaving a bullet next to his heart. The prognosis is that Dawson has about a year to live. As he is being shipped home on a landing craft it's blown up by artillery; no one back in his unit knows that he has only a short time to live. Picking up a pack of explosives, Dawson dodges bullets and blows up the strong point. As Dawson is resting he thinks, 'As long as I stay alive they had better watch out they're up against a man with nothing to lose.'
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Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Charles Herring
- Pencils
- Paulo Ongaro
- Inks
- Paulo Ongaro
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon, lads!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Dave "Lofty" Banks (main character)
The Headfirst Hero
Boys at War / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- John Cooper
Indexer Notes
Text story accompanied by one illustration.
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The Flight of the Golden Hinde / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Himmel! An ancient wooden sailing ship!
- Genre
- war
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Day of the Eagle / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Just this page to go...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Mike Nelson (main character)
Indexer Notes
First 2 pages of story are in colour.
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The Bootneck Boy / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Ian MacDonald
- Pencils
- Giralt
- Inks
- Giralt
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wanna join up, Sarge.
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Danny Budd (main character)
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The Rat Pack / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The guard's out cold and our cells have been opened.
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Kabul Hasan, Ronald Weasel, Ian "Scarface" Rogan, Matthew Dancer
- Reprints
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in Rat Pack (Titan, 2012 series) #1 - Guns, Guts and Glory (August 2012)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Free Combat Stickers Of World War II
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1.
["Battle action blasts into action"]
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2.
["The big day at last, lads!"]
D-Day Dawson -
3.
["C'mon, lads!"]
Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe -
4.
The Headfirst Hero
Boys at War -
5.
["Himmel! An ancient wooden sailing ship!"]
The Flight of the Golden Hinde -
6.
Brew-up at el Alamein
Battle Honours -
7.
["Just this page to go..."]
Day of the Eagle -
8.
[Combat Stickers]
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9.
["I wanna join up, Sarge."]
The Bootneck Boy -
10.
["The guard's out cold and our cells have been opened."]
The Rat Pack -
11.
["You will work till you drop, British dogs!"]
The Terror Behind the Bamboo Curtain -
12.
German Secret Weapons
This Amazing War!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Doug Brain
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Gary Henderson
- Happy Hippo
- Steve Jenner
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karsten S.
- Per Sandell
- John P. Selegue
- Julian Smith
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