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Gary numan was cool in the eighties........er that's all I can think of.

This is such a shameless plug but I'd love to see my name up in lights in the Megazine! I'm no good at pencils and can't write or letter to save my life, the only way I'd ever get in to the Meg is by grovelling so here goes....AHEM

Please, PLEEEEAAAASSSSE...remember me!

And no, I don't feel embarrased...much!

Colonel, hate to be the one to dispell a good story but I believe this was a collection of 175 copies of Battle starting with issue 1 that sold to a bloke for ?120 including postage. The seller was a guy called Alec who had had these comics on sale on 26Pigs for over a year!! They were an almost complete run from issue 1, missing only 14 copies. I know this because I enquired about buying them a month or two ago and was saving to buy them...unfortunately I was beaten to the sale and am now doomed to watch eBay forever to get old copies!!

Link: http://www.26pigs.com/tech/product_details.php3?pid=9435&time=A1970" target="_blank">26pigs auction

In the late Seventies there was a six part series which was shown on Friday nights which scared the living sh1t out of me, bearing in mind I was only very young!! I think it was called "Supernatural" and involved six people sitting in a room and each week one of them would tell a "true" story. The last episode involved vampires and the bloke telling the story said he knew the story to be true because he was there...his eyes turned white and that's how it ended. Scared me half to death.

Of course it was probably made scarier because I was nine years old at most and I was watching it in a television block at a campsite in Tenby. The telly block was down a spooky path and it was past my bedtime! However I did hear it was banned from being repeated as it was thought to be too scary for telly at that time!!

Can anyone else remember this series and tell me anything about it?

....if Rebellion could get the rights to the material why not reprint hookjaw or Death Game 1999 in the Meg with the completed pages which should have been in the banned episodes. Better still, get some of the old writers/artists to finish off the series without the watered down versions that came out in the relaunch of Action. Tom Tully used to write Death Game 1999 and Pat Mills wrote Hookjaw for a while. If Massimo Bellardinelli is truly in "the Great Studio in the Sky" then that would be a blow but Ian Gibson drew the first episode of "Death Game" and Ramon Sola did some great Hookjaw.

Maybe I'm taking this "reminiscence therapy" too far but I for one would love to see these series finished off in the Meg as they were intended. Maybe new material wouldn't capture the same feelings I had when I originally read these stories, time has moved on after all. But I still get a thrill thinking about reading hookjaw as a child and seeing Rick Mason's head bitten clean off before being held up in front of the owner of the holiday island. That's how I started reading comics and I am eternally grateful to Action for that.

....if Rebellion could get the rights to the material why not reprint hookjaw or Death Game 1999 in the Meg with the completed pages which should have been in the banned episodes. Better still, get some of the old writers/artists to finish off the series without the watered down versions that came out in the relaunch of Action. Tom Tully used to write Death Game 1999 and Pat Mills wrote Hookjaw for a while. If Massimo Bellardinelli is truly in "the Great Studio in the Sky" then that would be a blow but Ian Gibson drew the first episode of "Death Game" and Ramon Sola did some great Hookjaw.

Maybe I'm taking this "reminiscence therapy" too far but I for one would love to see these series finished off in the Meg as they were intended. Maybe new material wouldn't capture the same feelings I had when I originally read these stories, time has moved on after all. But I still get a thrill thinking about reading hookjaw as a child and seeing Rick Mason's head bitten clean off before being held up in front of the owner of the holiday island. That's how I started reading comics and I am eternally grateful to Action for that.

"What does everyone else think - is this comic in very good condition......?"

Tricky one. On the whole the cover looks as though it has some minor faults but sometimes this can just be the picture. You have to take the whole comic into consideration as well. It may have very tight, shiny staples, clean white pages and be flat as a pancake with no internal wear. That's going to grade better than VG even with minor faults to the front cover. I have to agree with you though that based on the picture you could argue against the seller's estimated grading being accurate. In his defence I've had several dealings with him and he's always been spot on with the grading. But I wouldn't hazard a guess as to the grade unless I saw the comic.

I thought Helter skelter was a vehicle for appealing to Old Skool 2K fans. I for one liked it even if just for the reappearance of old characters. However I felt plot was forsaken just so as to cram as many old characters in as possible and the ending was a real letdown in my opinion. It had the feeling of being a filler to me....a Sci-Fi special tale in too many parts. Shame because I enjoyed it and it could have been so good.

The back page splash in colour in Zenith book one where the sun has been replaced by a big black orb and the enormity of what has taken place hits home always fills me with a chill.

"Oh my God what have they done! What have they done to the sun!"

Can we take that as a maybe then???

I recently bought the art from the back page of prog 384, by Ian Gibson entitled "Hooplife". Nice stand-alone piece featuring the Hoop, Halo Jones, Toby, and with commentary by Swifty Frisco. Looks good framed on my study wall alongside a copy of prog 384 also in a frame!

Link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2116837072" target="_blank">Hooplife at eBay

Thanks anyway.

I'm looking for some help regarding a copy of Battle I bought recently. It's a free issue of Battle and Action Force without a date or any indication of how you could get hold of this issue. By using the Charley's War website I've identified the Charlie's War strip and believe it may be from 8 october 1983 but could you confirm this? Also, was this copy given away in the shops or with other IPC publications? Any help in solving this would be greatly recieved.

ps Love your Battle website.

Cheers Wake. It was the "lost thrills" link that I wanted. To your knowledge, are these stories reprints or are they previously unpublished strips? A few of the titles sound familiar but most I've never heard of. As I don't own any US reprints I can't see the strips to see whether they are familiar!

Dear Wake,

Did I see a link on here at some time to a list of reprint publications, possibly the US reprints, which contained strips which hadn't seen publication in either 2000AD, the Meg, or any of the specials/annuals over the years. If there is such a list, can you post the link to it please.

Much appreciated.