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  • ACTION - BEFORE THE BAN Volume 1: The Archival Collection

    ACTION - BEFORE THE BAN Volume 1 by Mills, Pat; Wagner, John; Finley-Day, Gerry;

    The Archival Collection

    Series: Archival Collections; 1;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st Edition
    • Publisher Rebellion
    • Date of Publication 26 February 2026
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781837866694
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages384 pages
    • Size 282x215x30 mm
    • Weight 1575 g
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    Celebrating 50 years since IPC launched the UK's most controversial anthology comic! This volume collects all of the infamous strips and some editorial from the first 12 issues of Action.

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    Long description:

    CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF BRITAIN'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL COMIC!

    Violent, gritty and unrelenting, Action comic was the brainchild of Pat Mills and Geoff Kemp. Tasked with creating a new anthology comic for the IPC's boys adventure division, the pair rapidly developed a winning formula: reimagining existing story ideas from fresh perspectives and infusing them with a healthy dose of modern realism. With strips such as Hookjaw, Dredger, Look Out For Lefty and Blackjack, success was instantaneous but so was the criticism. Many of the press including, The London Evening Standard, The Sun and the Daily Mail were quick to denounce the comic, while Mary Whitehouse and the pressure group, Delegates Opposing Violent Education, piled pressure on the IPC board to do something about it.

    In less than a year, Action was pulled from circulation, then returned months later, a sanitised, pale shadow of its former self. But the spark had already been lit. Action had made its mark and became the catalyst for the evolution of the British comics scene, pathing the way for 2000 AD and the British invasion of UK talent into America.

    Collected here are the first twelve issues of Action, containing all of the strips and some of the editorial that created so much infamy back in the 1970s.

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    Table of Contents:

    All strips included in issues 1-12 (14th February 1976 - 1st May 1976) of the original Action comic, including:

    Dredger - Writers: Kelvin Gosnell, Pat Mills, Steve MacManus, Chris Lowder, Geoff Kemp Artist: Horacio Altuna

    Hellman of Hammer Force - Writer: Gerry Finley-Day Artist: Mike Dorey

    Blackjack - Writers: John Wagner, Chris Lowder Artists: Leopoldo Sanchez, Gustavos Trigo

    The Coffin Sub - Writer: Ron Carpenter Artist: Angelo Todaro

    Green's Grudge War - Writer: Gerry Finley-Day Artist: Massimo Belardinelli

    Hook Jaw - Writers: Pat Mills, Ken Armstrong Artist: Ramon Sola

    Play Till You Drop - Writer: Ron Carpenter Artist: Barrie Mitchell

    The Running Man - Writer: Steve MacManus Artist: Lalia

    Look Out For Lefty - Writer: Tom Tully Artist: Barrie Mitchell

    Sport's Not For Losers - Writer: Steve MacManus Artist: Dudley L. Wynn

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