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Wildcat (British Comics)
''Wildcat'' was a fortnightly British comics periodical published by Fleetway Publications from 22 October 1988 to 25 March 1989. A science fiction adventure comic, the title only lasted for 12 editions before being merged with another Fleetway title, ''Eagle (1982 comic), Eagle''. Creation In 1987 IPC Magazines had sold their comic titles to Robert Maxwell's Mirror Group Newspapers. The following year the experienced group editor Barrie Tomlinson – who had previously launched the successful ''Tiger (British comics), Tiger'' spinoff ''Roy of the Rovers (comic), Roy of the Rovers'' and the 1982 revival of ''Eagle (1982 comic), Eagle'', as well as the shorter-lived ''Speed (British comics), Speed'' and ''Scream! (comics), Scream!'' – was asked to create a new science fiction-themed anthology as a 'junior version' of ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''. Tomlinson devised a novel concept for the new title, ''Wildcat''; whereas previous Fleetway anthology comics had largely (if not un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleetway Publications
Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London. It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies that merged into the IPC group in 1963, and the Fleetway banner continued to be used until 1968 when all IPC's publications were reorganised into the unitary IPC Magazines. In 1987 IPC's comics line was sold to Robert Maxwell as Fleetway Publications. Egmont UK bought Fleetway from Maxwell in 1991, merging it with their own comics publishing operation, London Editions, to form Fleetway Editions, but the name "Fleetway" ceased to appear on their comics some time after 2002. In August 2016, Rebellion Developments acquired the Fleetway library from Egmont, making it the owner of all comics characters and titles created by IPC's subsidiaries after January 1, 1970, together with 26 specified characters which appeared in '' Buster'' and ''Roy of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |