With the nights drawing in it’s the perfect time for traditional Christmas ghost stories – and the brand new Misty Winter Special is out now!
Written by Anna Savory (Tales from the Satanic Library) & V.V. Glass (Doctor Who), and illustrated by V.V. Glass, ‘Infection’ is a disturbing tale about how far people are expected to conform to societal standards no matter how warped the rules become! And in ‘Home for Christmas’, writer Lizzy Boyle (Scream! & Misty) and artist David Roach (Anderson, Psi Division) unveil a harrowing ghostly home-invasion that reveals dreaded sins of the past!
Published between 1978 and 1980, Misty was the weekly anthology comic aimed at young girls that told tales with supernatural or spooky themes, and this winter special features two brand new tales designed to honour Misty‘s legacy and send a shiver down your spine!
All this is wrapped in a brand new cover by Simon Davis (Sláine)!
Rebellion and Hibernia Comics is pleased to announce The Fleetway Files – a new series in association with The Treasury of British comics which aims to present the very best of Fleetway comics and build into an unmissable collection!
The first release in this series is a lost classic, Alan Hebden and Massimo Belardinelli’s The Angry Planet – collected from the pages of Tornado and never before reprinted! This perfect bound 90-page collection retails at £10.49 and is available to order now.
Tornado (originally titled Heroes until a last-minute name change dictated by IPC management) was launched as a companion to 2000 AD and was designed to be a mixed-content adventure comic. It included strips that spanned genres and time periods like Blackhawk, Captain Klep, Victor Drago (the detective Sexton Blake in all but name, thanks to a copyright issue) and The Mind of Wolfie Smith. It was not to last however and Tornado merged into 2000 AD after just 22 issues.
The Angry Planet featured in all 22 issues, but unlike Wolfie Smith and Blackhawk it concluded in the pages of Tornado. A sequel titled Mars Force was planned, which was to be set 50 years after the end of The Angry Planet and Belardinelli drew several pages which featured a new set of characters designed by Brian Bolland. Sadly, it never materialised.
The Angry Planet touches on themes such as resource scarcity and corporate control that remain relevant today, but at heart it’s a rollercoaster sci-fi tale about rebellion. So, dive straight in and be blown away by Hebden’s usual hard-nosed characters and dynamic script and cover to cover with Belardinelli’s astonishing artwork as you join the first-generation Martians and their efforts to overthrow the dastardly Mars Inc.!
Collected from the pages of Tornado, this perfect bound 90-page collection retails at £10.49.
She’s the original influencer – meet Pat Mills and Rafael Busóm Clúa’s SUGAR JONES!
Sugar is seen by the world as a charming twenty-something host of her own late-night variety show, beloved by viewers up and down the nation.
Only her overworked and underappreciated assistant, Susie Ford, knows her secret – that Sugar is really a selfish, sour, old schemer who’ll do anything to look good on television! – and though Sugar’s own ambition and vanity frequently rebounds on her, Susie continues to do her best to protect Sugar.
The collection brings together the original stories from the pages of Pink. Enjoy Pat Mills’ needling of the trappings of fame alongside Rafael Busóm Clúa’s absolutely gorgeous artwork.
From naughty nippers and toothless sharks to crimefighting feather-brains and hapless horrors, get some stories to tickle everybody’s funnybone!
Britain’s golden age of humour comics returns for the 21st Century with brand new stories by today’s top talents in the Cor!! Buster Bumper Fun Book!
Featuring characters like Kid Kong, Grimly Feendish, Faceache, and Frankie Stein are given new life in this compendium of hilarity by Neil Googe (The Flash), Cavan Scott (Doctor Who), Tom Paterson (The Beano), Shelli Paroline (Adventure Time) and Hilary Barta (DC Comics’ Plastic Man)!
Don’t miss this bumper collection of comic book bone-ticklers, as well as activities and interviews with the creators behind the funny pages!
Available from all good book and comic book stores, as well as from the Treasury of British Comics webshop! Get it digitally from the webshop or the 2000 AD app!
This special includes, for the very first time, the last Sexton Blake comic strip (originally published under the title “Victor Drago”) by Chris Lowder (Dan Dare, Judge Dredd) and illustrated by Mike Dorey (Hellman of Hammerforce).
Then the adventure detective is back in action as George Mann (Doctor Who, Star Wars Adventures) and Jimmy Broxton (Hope, Doctor Who) brings us the first new Sexton Blake comic in decades!
Meanwhile, Philip K. Dick Award winning writer Mark Hodder (The Burton & Swinburne Adventures) introduces Blake to a new audience and Karl Stock (Thrill-power Overload: Forty Years of 2000 AD) interviews the writers and artists.
Created in 1893 – six years after rival Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print – Sexton Blake went on to become a publishing phenomenon, appearing in 4,000 stories told written and drawn by over 200 different writers and artists and syndicated around the world. And now he is reborn!
All-out, all-action, no mercy – this new Death Squad collection brings together the brutal classic story from the groundbreaking and hugely influential Battle comic!
Featuring gritty art from Eric Bradbury and Carlos Ezquerra, Death Squad follows the deadliest band of fighters on the Eastern Front – a band of German soldiers trying to survive in one of the deadliest theatres of warfare in human history
During World War Two the Eastern Front was Hell on Earth – German Punishment Battalions were thrown into the thick of the conflict where they were expected to fight well and die hard. In these harshest of conditions only the strongest warriors survived.
Enter the Death Squad – Grandad, Swede, Licker, Gus and Frankie. Alone they were failures and outcasts, but together they were one of the most formidable combat units the Russians ever faced!
This uncompromising series is emblematic of Battle’s groundbreaking no-nonsense approach to storytelling, with writer Alan Hebden pulling no punches in the depiction of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front.
This book collects the Death Squad stories published in Battle Action from 12 July 1980 – 4 June 1981, as well as the Battle Annual 1982.
One of the greatest comics of all time and a moving tribute to the power of comic book art – the stunning replica screen print of a page from the groundbreaking Charley’s War is now available to order.
From the archives of the Treasury of British Comics, the world’s largest archive of English-language comics, Rebellion Unplugged is proud to present this limited edition screen print of art by the legendary artist Joe Colquhoun from Charley’s War episode #230.
This beautiful print is available on both paper and Bristol Board from the 2000 AD and Treasury of British Comics webshops.
This scale replica is taken from new high-resolution scans of Colquhoun’s breath-taking original art. Five layers of hand-pressed screen printing captures the creative process of the original page, through pencils, inks, hand lettering, and art fixes, to produce an artefact that is faithful both to its creator’s vision and to the lost art of making comic books.
This limited edition screen print is hand-numbered, and printed on archival quality acid-free Somerset satin 410gsm white paper, with a variant edition of 25 copies printed on artists’ Bristol Board to match the original. It reproduces the artwork in its original size of 400*470mm.
Originally printed in Battle Picture Weekly in August 1979 the page opens the strip’s dramatic portrayal of the blitz on London, and showcases Colquhoun’s incredible linework and storytelling.
Written by British comics legend Pat Mills and illustrated by Colquhoun, Charley’s War tells the story of underage British soldier called Charley Bourne, who enlists at the outbreak of World War One and goes on to experience the horror of the trenches and witness the brutal treatment ordinary soldiers received to serve the selfish interests of those in power.
Considered by many to be the greatest war comic of all time, and this new print is a testament to the extraordinary and under-appreciated talent of the artist who brought it to life.
Meet Britain’s greatest gurning grotesque – the first collection of Ken Reid’s classic Faceache is out now in paperback!
These are the humorous adventures of Ricky Rubberneck, the boy with a “bendable bonce” whose skin stretches like rubber. At will, he can scrunge his face into anything, whether it’s mimicing others or turning into monstrous creatures – but always coming a cropper!
Following the sold out hardcover edition, this new paperback brings back into print these classic stories by the master of comedic comic book illustration, Ken Reid.
Reid is consistently name-checked by the greats of comics – from Alan Moore to Kevin O’Neill, John Wagner to Pat Mills – for his unique art that is matched only by his enduring sense of humour.
With the nights drawing in it’s the perfect time for traditional Christmas ghost stories – and the brand new Misty Winter Special is available to pre-order now!
Published between 1978 and 1980, Misty was the weekly anthology comic aimed at young girls that told tales with supernatural or spooky themes, and this winter special features two brand new tales designed to honour Misty‘s legacy and send a shiver down your spine!
Written by Anna Savory (Tales from the Satanic Library) & V.V. Glass (Doctor Who), and illustrated by V.V. Glass, ‘Infection’ is a disturbing tale about how far people are expected to conform to societal standards no matter how warped the rules become!
And in ‘Home for Christmas’, writer Lizzy Boyle (Scream! & Misty) and artist David Roach (Anderson, Psi Division) unveil a harrowing ghostly home-invasion that reveals dreaded sins of the past!
All this is wrapped in a brand new cover by Simon Davis (Sláine)!
Created in 1893 – six years after rival Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print – Sexton Blake went on to become a publishing phenomenon, appearing in 4,000 stories told written and drawn by over 200 different writers and artists and syndicated around the world. And now he is reborn!
Presented for the very first time in its full glory is the last Sexton Blake comic strip, originally published under the title “Victor Drago”, written by Chris Lowder (Dan Dare, Judge Dredd) and illustrated by Mike Dorey (Hellman of Hammerforce)
Then the adventure detective is back in action as George Mann (Doctor Who, Star Wars Adventures) and Jimmy Broxton (Hope, Doctor Who) brings us the first new Sexton Blake comic in decades!
Meanwhile, Philip K. Dick Award winning writer Mark Hodder (The Burton & Swinburne Adventures) introduces Blake to a new audience and Karl Stock (Thrill-power Overload: Forty Years of 2000 AD) interviews the writers and artists.
