COVER REVEAL: The Leopard from Lime Street
23rd March 2017
We’re very pleased to unveil the new cover for the first collection of Tom Tully, Mike Western, and Eric Bradbury’s “British Spider-man” series The Leopard from Lime Street.
Originally published between 1976 and 1985, The Leopard from Lime Street – Book One will be published in paperback in July, with a special limited edition hardcover available exclusively from Rebellion Publishing.
Designed by 2000 AD designer Oz Osbourne and featuring artwork by Mike Western, inked by Eric Bradbury, this will be the second title in Rebellion’s new Treasury of British Comics line. You can read the schedule of forthcoming releases from the Fleetway/IPC archive here.
One of the most requested reprints from the recently-acquired archive, The Leopard from Lime Street is essentially the British Spider-man – a hugely popular home-grown teenage superhero called Billy Farmer, who lives with his Aunt Joan and Uncle Charlie when he is scratched by a radioactive leopard at the local zoo.
Gaining leopard-like strength, speed, reflexes, and tree-climbing abilities, when he’s not fighting crime, Billy sells photographs of himself to the local paper, using the money to support his frail aunt while contending with his violent, greedy and lazy uncle.
With warmth, wit, and stunning artwork by Mike Western and Eric Bradbury, The Leopard from Lime Street is a gem of 1970s and 1980s British comics, now eagerly awaiting its return to shelves!
