''Battle Picture Weekly'', at various times also known as ''Battle Action'', ''Battle Action Force'', ''Battle'' and ''Battle with Storm Force'', was a British war comic book magazine published by

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from (issues dates) 8 March 1975 to 23 January 1988, when it merged with the new incarnation of ''

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''. Most stories were set in

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, with some based on other conflicts. A notable feature of the comic, suited to its era of circulation, was its

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with readers sending in stories of their fathers' and grandfathers' exploits during

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and

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, often in an effort to win a nominal star letter prize. The comic at various times printed colour pinups of tanks, planes, ships, etc. in the centrefold or the back page (inner or outer).

Publication history

In 1974, in response to the success of the D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd war comic ''

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'', IPC hired freelance writers

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and

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to develop a rival title. Mills and Wagner brought in fellow freelancer

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to help develop stories. Dave Hunt was made editor. Doug Church also was very involved as a 'Creative Editor' on covers, layouts, features. When the title proved a success, Mills went on to create ''

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''and '' 2000 AD'', while Wagner was asked to revive '' Valiant''. The attempts to breathe new life into ''Valiant'' were unsuccessful, and was merged with ''Battle'' on 23 October 1976. For some time afterwards the merged comic was entitled ''Battle Picture Weekly and Valiant''. ''Action'' also merged with ''Battle'' on 19 November 1977, the resulting comic being named ''Battle Action''. In 1979, Terry Magee was appointed editor, while Dave Hunt later became editor of the new ''Eagle'' in 1982. Barrie Tomlinson was the Group Editor and Gil Page was the Managing Editor. The Director of the Youth Group was John Sanders. In 1982 the comic was retitled again, to ''Battle''. * Assistant Editor (for most of ''Battle'' comic's life): Jim Storrie * Art Editors included Roy Stedall-Humphrys and Peter Downer * Editorial assistants included Barrie Clements, Roy Preston, Ron Cooper,

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* Art assistants: Tim Skomski, Martin Goldring The details of title changes are: * ''Battle Picture Weekly'' (8 March 1975 ssue #1– 16 October 1976 ssue #85 * ''Battle Picture Weekly and Valiant'' (23 October 1976 ssue #86– 1 October 1977 ssue #135 * ''Battle Picture Weekly'' (8 October 1977 ssue #136– 11 November 1977 ssue #141 * ''Battle-Action'' (19 November 1977 ssue #142– 1 July 1978 ssue #175 * ''Battle Action'' (8 July 1978 ssue #176– 4 October 1980 ssue #283 : indicia still reads Battle-Action * ''Battle Action'' (11 October 1980 ssue #284– 25 July 1981 ssue #325 : indicia now reads Battle Action * ''Battle'' (1 August 1981 ssue #326– 1 October 1983 ssue #439 * ''Battle Action Force'' (8 October 1983 ssue #440– 29 November 1986 ssue #604 * ''Battle'' (6 December 1986 ssue #605– 17 January 1987 ssue #611 * ''Battle Storm Force'' (24 January 1987 ssue #612– 23 January 1988 ssue #664

Tie-in with ''Action Force''

From 1983 through to 1986, the comic ran a series of stories relating to the

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range of action figures, ''

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''. The Action Force characters initially guest-featured in a comic strip serial in ''Battle'' for four weeks in July 1983. The strip proved to be so popular that a further five promotional mini-comics were included free with every IPC publication in the weeks to follow. On 8 October 1983, Action Force joined the pages of ''Battle'' full-time and the comic was retitled ''Battle Action Force''. Eventually, in line with the increasing popularity of the toys, the focus of the comic moved towards ''Action Force'' (at the expense of some of the longer-running and more traditional wartime stories) and providing the back-stories to the action figures in circulation at the time. During 1984 to 1985, Palitoy increasingly used the comic as a promotional publication, running competitions, mail-in offers and fan-club elements of the ''Action Force'' toy range through its pages. As ''Action Force'' itself transmuted to its

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equivalent ('' Action Force – Third generation''), the comic took on the role of providing continuity with regard to the diverging storylines and characters. By the end of 1986, Palitoy had lost the ''Action Force'' licence to

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and the comic was again re-titled first as ''Battle'' (1986) and then ''Battle with Storm Force'' (1987) prior to its eventual merger with ''

'' (1988).

Notable stories

Notable stories included: * ''The Bootneck Boy'', written by Ian MacDonald and later by Wagner and illustrated by Joan Giralt Banus — about Danny Budd, a young orphan who, having been reluctantly raised by his unpleasant uncle, enlists in the Royal Marines where he is picked on because of his small physique but he remains determined to prove himself. * ''

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'', by

and

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— this series told the story of 16-year-old Charley Bourne who enlists in the British army during the First World War. He serves in the trenches on the Western Front 1916–1918 and later in the

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in 1919. The series was continued for a short period into the Second World War under a new writer,

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but the series was then ceased due to the ill health of artist Joe Colquhoun. * ''The Commando They Didn't Want'' by Terence Magee (written under the pseudonym John Richard) and Carlos Pino. * ''Cooley's Gun'' by Gerry Finley-Day and Geoff Campion. * ''D-Day Dawson'', written by Finley-Day & Ron Carpenter and illustrated by

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and Colin Page — about a British army Sergeant who is wounded on the

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beaches by a bullet that is lodged near his heart, sealing his eventual doom. However, the doctor that diagnoses the injury is then killed and Dawson rejoins his unit, no one else aware of his terminal condition, having decided to fight with his platoon until the end. * ''Darkie's Mob'', by Wagner and

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— a violent series set in the jungles of Burma, with the renegade Captain Joe Darkie leading a group of lost soldiers in a personal guerrilla war against the Japanese. * ''Death Squad'' by Alan Hebden and Eric Bradbury — a motley band of German soldiers serving in a penal battalion on the Eastern Front. * ''El Mestizo'', by Hebden and Ezquerra — about a former slave turned mercenary in the

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. * ''Fighter from the Sky'' by Gerry Finley-Day & Geoff Campion — in 1939 a German Paratrooper Paul Fallman is demoted back to private after his father is executed for treason, leaving his son determined to restore honour to his family name. * ''Fighting Mann'' by Alan Hebden and Cam Kennedy — a veteran US Marine Colonel embarks on an un-authorized mission in the Vietnam War to locate his son, a Navy pilot, who has gone missing and has been accused of desertion. * ''The Fists of Jimmy Chang'' — Hong Kong martial arts expert Jimmy Chang battles organised crime and Communist agents using his kung fu skills (inspired by film star

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). * ''The Flight of the Golden Hinde'' by S. Conforth — another strip that featured in the debut issue of Battle. This story featured a replica of Sir Francis Drake's

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that sets sail in 1937 aiming to circumnavigate the world to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Drake's 1577 voyage. The ship is still at sea when the war breaks out in 1939. The Captain, James Finch, disobeys an order to return to Britain and instead decides to complete the voyage. * ''Gaunt'' – set in World War II, about an unbalanced "hard man" given a superhumanly strong artificial hand to replace one lost during torture. * ''The General Dies at Dawn'', by Gerry Finley-Day and John Cooper — a

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General, due to be executed for treason, spends his final hours describing his wartime experiences to the sympathetic guard outside his cell. * ''Hellman of Hammer Force'', written by Finley-Day — starring a German tank commander who fights throughout the Second World War from the

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in 1939 to the fall of Berlin in 1945. The strip originally appeared in ''Action'' but it transferred to ''Battle'' when the two merged in 1977. This series was an intermittent one, drawn by several different artists, but the artist most associated with the series is Mike Dorey. * ''HMS Nightshade'', by Wagner and Western — about the crew of a British Royal Navy

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at the height of the

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, protecting Allied supply convoys against the German

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. * ''Hold Hill 109'', written by Steve MacManus and drawn by Jim Watson — a mini-series set in North Africa about a ragged group of 13 Eighth Army soldiers who have six days to hold a vital hill against a vastly superior force of

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. * ''The Hunters'' by Terence Magee and Carlos Pino and later by Geoff Campion — a pair of secret agents, Ned Hare and Larry Fox, battle threats to national security whilst maintaining their cover as actors in a TV show where they also play secret agents (inspired by popular contemporary TV series ''

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''). * ''Invasion 1984'' by John Wagner and Eric Bradbury — when a race of skeletal-like aliens invade the world and enslave humanity British special forces unit 'Storm Squad' lead the fightback. * ''Invasion!'' by Terence Magee and Jim Watson — a young boy finds himself caught up in the 1982

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. * ''Jetblade'' — the adventures of an advanced prototype jet engine assisted helicopter as the crew perform demonstration missions for prospective buyers worldwide (inspired by contemporary TV series '

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'). * ''Joe Two Beans'' by John Wagner and Eric Bradbury — a

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Native American serves in the US Marine Corps in the Pacific War. * ''Johnny Red'', written by

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and drawn initially by

, later by John Cooper and finally by Carlos Pino — about a British fighter pilot Johnny "Red" Redburn flying for the Russians in a

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fighter. Later Redburn flies with the RAF and United States Army Air Forces in England, before returning to the Eastern Front in a

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nicknamed ''The Red Death''. ''Johnny Red'' ran continuously for ten years and was ''Battle's'' longest-running series. * ''Kommando King'' by Gerry Finley-Day and Geoff Campion * ''Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe'', by

, Wagner and Charlie Herring and drawn by Paolo Ongaro — about a British pilot, Dave 'Lofty' Banks, who speaks fluent German and is shot down over Occupied Europe in 1943. He escapes from a POW camp and to evade re-capture, he assumes the identity of a dead German pilot and ends up serving in the Luftwaffe. This series ran for 18 weeks and featured in the debut issue of ''Battle''. * ''Major Eazy'', by Alan Hebden and Ezquerra — a laid back, cigar-smoking British officer who drove a Bentley, visually based on

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. For a time Major Eazy became the commander of Rat Pack. * ''The Nightmare'' by Terence Magee and Mario Capaldi and later Carlos Pino — boy of the Blitz pursued by Nazi assassin. * ''

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'' by John Wagner and John Cooper — a

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like character. Originally a cop in '' Valiant'', he became a spy when he came to ''Battle''. * ''Panzer G-Man'' – by Gerry Finley-Day & Geoff Campion — a Panzer-Grenadier Kurt Slinger fights not only against the Allies but against deadly rivals among his own comrades. * ''Rat Pack'' — written by

and initially drawn by Spanish artist

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— about a group of convicts released from prison to carry out suicide missions, inspired by ''

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''. * ''Sailor Small'' by Scott Goodall and Phil Gascoigne. * ''The Sarge'' by Gerry Finley-Day/Scott Goodall and drawn by Mike Western/Phil Gascoigne — British Sergeant Jim Masters, a veteran of WW1, has to shepherd his rookie, over-confident platoon during the Second World War. * ''The Spinball Wars'', written by Tom Tully, the story of a team involved in a violent futuristic sport, inspired by popular contemporary film Rollerball. * ''Storm Force'' – a non-stop action strip about a squad of elite anti-terrorist warriors, inspired by

. * ''The Team That Went to War'' by

with art by

and Jim Watson. * ''Terror Behind the Bamboo Curtain'' by Charles Herring, Mills and Wagner (the latter two writers uncredited) and drawn by Giancarlo Alessandrini — British troops in a Japanese POW camp in Burma which is run by a sadistic commander who performs cruel punishments and experiments on his prisoners. This strip featured in ''Battle's'' debut issue. * ''War Dog'' by Alan Hebden and Mike Western and later Cam Kennedy — a lost German Shepherd experiences World War II from different sides. * ''The Wilde Bunch'' written by Scott GoodallTerence Magee: Interview
A Resource on Jinty website (May 13, 2014). * ''Yellow Jack'' by Terence Magee — cowardly British soldier Jack Loot hungers for gold in the North African desert war.

Legacy

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has stated that Battle was "one of my favourites as a kid and a big influence on my own work. I used to enjoy Darkie's Mob, Crazy Keller, Hellman, Cooley's Gun, the later Rat Pack stories, Death Squad, The Sarge... the list is endless" and he wrote a letter to the comic pointing out an error in tank identification. In November 2015, the character of ''Johnny Red'' was revived by writer Garth Ennis and illustrator Keith Burns for a new 8-part mini-series ''Johnny Red: Hurricane'' published by Titan Comics. In August 2018,

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issued a new 3-part comic series ''Sniper Elite: Resistance'' by Keith Richardson and Patrick Goddard, a spin-off from the PS-4 game ''

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''. The story, set in German-occupied France in 1941, included an appearance by the ''Rat Pack'', original characters from ''Battle Picture Weekly''. In September 2020, Rebellion released a 100-page special issue of ''Battle'' under its Treasury of British Comics imprint. Entitled ''Battle of Britain Special'', it featured ten new stories by various writers and artists. Several characters from past issues of ''Battle'' were revived including ''El Mestizo'', written by Alan Hebden and a ''Rat Pack'' story by Garth Ennis. Other stories featured new characters and settings including ''War Child'' by

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, a story produced in association with the charity War Child. In June 2022 Rebellion published a hardcover ''Battle Action Special'' with new stories featuring characters from both comics, written by Garth Ennis and with various artists.

Collected editions

Some of the stories were collected into

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: * ''The Best of Battle: Volume 1'' (288 pages, June 2009, ) * ''The Best of Land Battle'' – This edition was originally planned to be released in 2010 but was postponed and has yet to be published. ''

'' has been reprinted in a

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of hardcover volumes by Titan. Then in 2010, they began making more hardcover collections available including: * ''Rat Pack: Guns, Guts & Glory (Volume 1)'' (128 pages, September 2010, ) * ''Major Eazy: Heart of Iron (Volume 1)'' (120 pages, November 2010, ) * ''Johnny Red: Falcons' First Flight'' (128 pages, November 2010, ) * ''Darkie's Mob: The Secret War of Joe Darkie'' (112 pages, April 2011, ) * ''Johnny Red Volume 2: Red Devil Rising'' (96 pages, June 2012, ) * ''Johnny Red Volume 3: Angels over Stalingrad'' (104 pages, February 2013, ) * ''Garth Ennis Presents: Battle Classics'' (255 pages, January 2014, )- Features the entire series of ''HMS Nightshade'' and ''The General Dies at Dawn''. * ''Garth Ennis Presents: Battle Classics-Volume 2'' (240 pages, August 2016, )- Features the entire series of ''Fighting Mann'' and ''War Dog''. * ''Johnny Red Volume 4: The Flying Gun'' (160 pages, September 2016, ) From 1 April 2009,

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UK in conjunction with

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announced 4 special reprint collections from their stable, including a collection of ''Battle'' strips. In 2018,

publishers began a new imprint called Treasury of British Comics, which featured reprinted collections of strips from various past British comics. So far, seven titles featuring stories from ''Battle Picture Weekly'' have been released: *''Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe'' (June 2018, a reprint of the complete series issued as a bonus extra with ''Judge Dredd Magazine'' #397) *''El Mestizo'' (64 pages, November 2018, ) *''Invasion 1984!'' (128 pages, May 2019, ) *''Major Eazy vs Rat Pack'' (48 pages, October 2020, )- reprint of 1977 ''Battle'' cross-over feature. *''Death Squad'' (128 pages, November 2020, ) *''Major Eazy Volume One: The Italian Campaign'' (128 pages, March 2021, ) *''The Sarge: Volume One'' (144 pages, May 2022, )

References

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