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ACTION - BEFORE THE BAN Volume 1: The Archival Collection: Volume 1
By (author) Pat Mills, By (author) John Wagner, By (author) Gerry Finley-Day, By (author) Steve MacManus, By (artist) Barry Mitchell, By (artist) Mike Dorey, By (artist) Ramon Sola, By (author) Kelvin Gosnell, By (author) Tom Tully, By (artist) Horacio Lalia
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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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Publisher | Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Published date | 26 Feb 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 384
Dimensions | 283 x 216 x 30mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1574g
ISBN | 978-1-8378-6669-4
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