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Who are The Vigilant? Meet The Leopard from Lime Street!

Scratched by a radioactive leopard, young Billy Farmer soon discovered that he had acquired the strength, agility and senses of the mighty jungle cat – and so he became The Leopard from Lime Street!

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Created by Tom Tully, Mike Western and Eric Bradbury, The Leopard from Lime Street is the crown jewel of British superhero comic strips. After being gifted extraordinary powers by the radioactive scratch, Billy creating a costume to disguise his identity and became the masked vigilante known as the ‘Leopard-Man’ – Selbridge’s premier crime fighter! Living with his aunt and mean uncle in a small house on Lime Street, Billy juggles his time between schoolwork and saving lives, earning some money on the side as a freelance photographer for the Selbridge Sun.

Read the first appearance of The Leopard from Lime Street in our first free download >>
Buy the first volume of The Leopard from Lime Street here >>

The Leopard from Lime Street is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

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Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

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Who are The Vigilant? Meet Doctor Sin!

He’s an artist! A battler of evil! A master of the mystic art! And his last album was kinda alright. He is … DOCTOR SIN!

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the characters in this brand new title!

Created by Rob Williams and Luca Pizzari, Sin Tax is sarcastic, superficial and, many would say, annoying – but he’s also Britain’s number one hip hop artist. He’s also, bafflingly, the leader of The Vigilant!

Grandson of the late Doctor Sin, a leading figure in the world of occult magics, this new Doctor Sin is living up to his Grandfather’s legacy and fast becoming the most powerful mystic the world has ever known!

Read the first appearance of Sin Tax>>

Sin Tax is just one of the charcters in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

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Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

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Who are The Vigilant? Meet Blake Edmonds!

Motor racing champion Blake Edmonds had it all – but then an accident left him terribly disfigured and he made a deadly vow – this is his Death Wish!

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Created by Barrie Tomlinson and artist Vanyo, Blake Edmonds debuted in Speed #1 in 1980. A handsome world motor racing champion, Edmonds had everything – until the plane crash. Hiding his terrible facial injuries beneath a mask and with no will to live, he began performing every crazy stunt and deadly job he could – hoping that, eventually, the odds would catch up with him and his death wish!

Download the first appearance of Blake Edmonds >>

Edmonds is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

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Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

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Who are The Vigilant? Meet Death-Man!

“The putrid stench of evil permeates through this city like a rancid Bisto wave. I’m an immortal who longs to R.I.P. – I am DEATH-MAN!”

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the characters from this brand new title!

Created by Keith Richardson and Henry Flint, Death-Man first debuted in 2000 AD‘s Free Comic Book Day issue in 2016.

Little is known about this mysterious being, save the fact that he cannot die! He claims to be an agent of death, removing beings who try to evade the reaper’s grasp. He reluctantly does this with the understanding that death will one day set him free.

Read the first appearance of Death-Man in a free download >>

Death-Man is just one of the charcters in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

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Who are The Vigilant? Meet Adam Eterno!

Cursed to wander through history with eternal life, fighting evil and injustice wherever he may find it – he is Adam Eterno!

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Created by the comic editor Jack LeGrand and writer Tom Tully, and drawn by Tom Kerr, Adam first appeared in Thunder issue one, published in October 1970. Assistant to alchemist Erasmus Hemlock, Adam drank his master’s Elixir of Life and was cursed to roam through time as a virtual immortal!

Read the first appearance of Adam Eterno in our first free download >>

Adam Eterno is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

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Landing in one week: THE VIGILANT!

There’s just a week to go until classic British heroes return for a whole new generation in The Vigilant!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

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SNEAK PEEK: first look at the return of classic British superheroes!

This summer, the original home-grown British superheroes explode back into comic stores and the newsstands across the nation to thrill a whole new generation of fans!

Written by Simon Furman (TransformersRobotech) with art by Simon Coleby (The AuthorityJudge Dredd) and other guest creators, The Vigilant is a special 48-page bumper-sized special on sale August 15 from all good newsagents and comic book stores!

The one-shot resurrects classic heroes from the Fleetway/IPC comics of the 1970s – amongst them Adam Eterno, Blake Edmonds, Thunderbolt The Avenger and The Leopard from Lime Street – reborn and updated!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat!

Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos! Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yāo and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure.

The uncoloured preview below is a unique glimpse inside the process of forging this landmark special of British comics!

Available from newsagents in the UK on 15th August, The Vigilant is available to order from comic book stores through Diamond Distribution using order code JUN181951 in Previews.

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Classic British superheroes reborn to become ‘The Vigilant’!

Lost in the mists of time, home-grown British superheroes once entertained and enthralled millions of kids…

Now, the likes of Adam Eterno, Blake Edmonds, Thunderbolt the Avenger, and The Leopard from Lime Street are coming back to make summer 2018 blazing hot!

The Vigilant will be a special one-shot title this August which resurrects classic heroes from the Fleetway/IPC comics of the 1970s – reborn and updated for a new generation to enjoy!

Pre-order The Vigilant now >>

Written by Simon Furman (Transformers) with art by Simon Coleby (Jaegir, Judge Dredd) and other guest creators, when the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat!

Only The Vigilant – a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters – stand between civilisation and total chaos! Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yāo and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure! The ‘Rebellion-verse’ begins here!

Available from newsagents in the UK on 15th August, The Vigilant will also be available to order from comic book stores through Diamond Distribution in the May edition of Previews.