Battle Action #31 March 1979 [212]

(31 March 1979)

IPC, 1977 Series

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Price: 0.10 GBP
Pages: 32
Indicia Frequency: every Thursday
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: IPC Magazines Ltd.

Editing: Dave Hunt (editor)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

Genre: war

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Johnny Red / comic story / 3.5 pages (report information)

Script: Tom Tully
Pencils: John Cooper (signed as JOHN COOPER)
Inks: John Cooper (signed as JOHN COOPER)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Open fire, you scum!
Genre: war
Characters: Johnny 'Red' Redburn (featured)

H.M.S. Nightshade / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: John Wagner
Pencils: Mike Western
Inks: Mike Western
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Twenty fags and a box of matches, George...
Genre: war

Crazy Keller / comic story / 3.5 pages (report information)

Script: Alan Hebden
Pencils: Eric Bradbury
Inks: Eric Bradbury
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Get outta here!
Genre: war

The Sarge / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Scott Goodall
Pencils: Phil Gascoine
Inks: Phil Gascoine
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: The dead Kraut was a batman alright, Sid...
Genre: war; humour; military

Charley's War / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Pat Mills
Pencils: Joe Colquhoun
Inks: Joe Colquhoun
Letters: typeset; ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

... The biggest and most savage battle ever fought by the British army in one day--is under way.

Genre

war

Reprints

in Judge Dredd Megazine (Rebellion, 2003 series) #213 (16 December 2003)
in Charley's War (Titan, 2004 series) #1 - 2 June - 1 August 1916 (November 2004)

in Charley's oorlog (Just Publishers, 2014 series) #1 - 2 Juni 1916 - 1 augustus 1916 (2014)

Indexer Notes

July 1st 1916; Battle of the Somme

The Spinball Wars / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Tom Tully
Pencils: Ron Turner
Inks: Ron Turner
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: That... light! What in the blazes is it?
Genre: science fiction; war

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Dave Hunt ?
Pencils: Cam Kennedy
Inks: Cam Kennedy
Colors: ? (last page only)
Letters: typeset

Genre: war

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
1. ["Open fire, you scum!"]
Johnny Red
2. ["Twenty fags and a box of matches, George..."]
H.M.S. Nightshade
3. ["Get outta here!"]
Crazy Keller
4. ["The dead Kraut was a batman alright, Sid..."]
The Sarge
5. ["... The biggest and most savage battle ever fought by the British army in one day--is under way."]
Charley's War
6. ["That... light! What in the blazes is it?"]
The Spinball Wars
7. Hot Wheels

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Peter Croome
Jan Roar Hansen
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