A list of stories published in the

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 merg ...

comic '' Crisis'' between 1989 and 1991.

Artoons

:Published: #15-24 (1 April to 5 August 1989) :Artist:

Brendan McCarthy Brendan McCarthy is a British artist and designer who has worked for comic books, film and television. He co-wrote the film '' Mad Max: Fury Road''. He is the brother of Jim McCarthy. Life and career Early life and work Brendan McCarthy was ...

*Surreal back-page single frame cartoons.

Bible John - A Forensic Examination

:Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991) :Writer: Grant Morrison :Artist: Daniel Vallely An examination of the Bible John killings in

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China in Crisis 1989

:Published: #42 (14 April 1990) and #45 (26 May 1990) :Writer: Tony Allen :Artist: David Hine An account of the

Tiananmen Square protests The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth ...

, and the authorities' brutal crackdown.

The Crooked Mile/Angels Amongst Us

:Published: #28-38 (30 September 1989 to 17 February 1990) :Writer and Artist:

Philip Bond Philip J. Bond (born 11 July 1966, in Lancashire) is a People of the United Kingdom, British comic book artist, who first came to prominence in the late 1980s on ''Deadline magazine, Deadline'' magazine, and later through a number of collaborat ...

* Cartoons printed on the rear cover; "The Cooked Mile" was a surreal, unsettling painted one-frame image, while "Angels Amongst Us" was a four-panel strip featuring an amiable, wisecracking angel.

Dare

:Published: #56 (March 1991) :Writer: Grant Morrison :Artist:

Rian Hughes Rian Hughes is a British graphic designer, illustrator, type designer, comics artist and novelist. Overviews Hughes has written and drawn comics for '' 2000 AD'', Vertigo CMYK and Batman: Black and White, and designed for DC Comics and Marvel ...

Retired Colonel

Dan Dare Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the ''Eagle'' comic story ''Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in repri ...

finds the future far than idyllic. * Continued from ''

Revolver A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold up to six roun ...

''. A summary of the story to date was printed in ''Crisis'' #55.

For a Few Troubles More

:Published: #40-43 (17 March to 28 April 1990) and #45-46 (28 May to 9 June 1990) :Writer: Garth Ennis :Artist: John McCrea

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layabout Dougie Patterson is set to marry his long-suffering, pregnant girlfriend Valerie. The only sticking point is that Dougie insists on making his even more crass friend Ivor Thompson his best man, despite the inherent contradiction in terms. * Sequel to " Troubled Souls". Collected in 1991 by

as ''For a Few Troubles More''. Dougie and Ivor were later resurrected by Ennis and McCrea for the 1997 Caliber Comics series ''Dicks'', where the pair made a bungled attempt to become private detectives, and have subsequently appeared in titles published by Avatar Press.

The General and the Priest

:Published: #54-55 (January to February 1991) :Writer:

Igor Goldkind Igor Goldkind was born April 20, 1960, in Lansing, Michigan, and raised in San Diego, California. He is an author, poet, and lecturer who currently specializes in digital storytelling and information architecture. Biography The son of San Diego ...

:Artist:

Jim Baikie James George Baikie (28 February 1940 – 29 December 2017) was a Scottish comics artist best known for his work with Alan Moore on ''Skizz''. He was also a musician. Biography Baikie served as a Corporal with the Royal Air Force in 1956–1963 ...

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nian padre receives a visitor from his dark past, a former army general on the run from the American military. * The story was published on the second anniversary of the

United States invasion of Panama The United States invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, lasted over a month between mid-December 1989 and late January 1990. It occurred during the administration of President George H. W. Bush and ten years after the Torrijos– ...

, which was compared to the then-contemporary

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was an operation conducted by Iraq on 2 August 1990, whereby it invaded the neighboring State of Kuwait, consequently resulting in a seven-month-long Iraqi military occupation of the country. The invasion and Ira ...

by the editorial.

Happenstance and Kismet

:Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991) :Writer: Paul Neary :Artist: Steve Parkhouse The misadventures of jazz musician Monty Happenstance and translator Lucius Kismet. * Continued from ''

''.

Insiders

:Published: #54-59 (January to June 1991) :Writer:

Mark Millar Mark Millar (; born 24 December 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer and television producer who first came to prominence with a run on the superhero series '' The Authority'', published by DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. Millar has written ex ...

:Artist:

Paul Grist Paul Grist may refer to: * Paul Grist (actor) (born 1939), British actor * Paul Grist (comics) Paul Grist (born 9 September 1960) is a British comic book creator, noted for his hard-boiled police series '' Kane'' and his unorthodox superhero s ...

Frank Murray begins a 12-year stint in the dehumanising jail system of

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The New Adventures of Hitler

:Published: #46-49 (9 June to 21 July 1990) :Writer: Grant Morrison :Artist: Steve Yeowell In 1912

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n immigrant Alois and his wife Bridget reluctantly host the former's brother Adolf, a failed painter searching for the

Holy Grail The Holy Grail (french: Saint Graal, br, Graal Santel, cy, Greal Sanctaidd, kw, Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miracul ...

. * Originally created for publication in ''Cut''.

New Statesmen

:Published: #1-14 (17 September 1988 to 18 March 1989), #28 (30 September 1989) :Writer: John Smith :Artists:

(#1-4, #9-12 and #28),

Sean Phillips Sean Phillips (born 27 January 1965) is a British comic book artist, best known for his collaborations with Ed Brubaker on comics including '' Sleeper'', ''Incognito'', the '' Criminal'' series of comics, '' Fatale'', '' The Fade Out'', and ' ...

(#5-6 and #13-14),

Duncan Fegredo Duncan Fegredo (; born 1964) is a People of the United Kingdom, British comic book artist. Career Born in Leicester, Fegredo first managed to get into comics after showing his portfolio around UKCAC in 1987 and meeting Dave Thorpe. Together th ...

(#7-8) In 2047, the 51 states of America (including England as the 51st) each possess genetically modified Optimen. Created with superhuman 'hard' and 'soft' talents, these are essentially biological weapons, and the world is in the grip of fear of genetic engineering and political warmongering. * Repackaged as the five-issue limited series ''New Statesmen'' for the American market in 1989, and later compiled as ''The Complete New Statesmen'' by Fleetway.

The Real Robin Hood

:Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991) :Writer: Michael Cook :Artist: Gary Erskine Unemployed artist Danny lands the role of Robin Hood at a new

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...

theme part designed to commercialise the memory of the folk hero.

Sinner: Viet Blues

:Published: #52-55 (November 1990 to February 1991) :Writer:

Carlos Sampayo Carlos Sampayo (born 17 September 1943) is an Argentine writer best known for his work in comics, particularly in collaboration with artist José Muñoz. Sampayo was born in Carmen de Patagones, but left Argentina in the early 1970s for polit ...

:Artist:

José Antonio Muñoz José Antonio Muñoz or simply Muñoz (born July 10, 1942) is an Argentine artist. He is most notable for his influential black-and-white artwork. His hardboiled graphic novels series ''Alack Sinner'' (with writer Carlos Sampayo) is a noted sour ...

Cop turned private eye Alack Sinner gets involved in a racially-charged case in

Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street (Manhattan), 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street (Manhattan), ...

. * Originally printed in the 1986 ''Alack Sinner'' album "Viet Blues". Coloured for ''Crisis'' by

Steve Whitaker Steve Whitaker (26 June 1955 – 22 February 2008) was a British artist best known as the colourist on the reprint of ''V for Vendetta''. David Lloyd, the artist on ''V for Vendetta'', said Whitaker "was not only one of the finest colourists B ...

Sticky Fingers

:Published: #15-21 (1 April to 24 June 1989) and #23-27 (22 July to 16 September 1989) :Writer: Myra Hancock :Artist: David Hine Tomboyish Weeny begins flat-sharing with Holly in

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while trying to escape the temptation of returning to her former life of theft.

Straitgate

:Published: #50-53 (September to December 1990) :Writer: John Smith :Artist/s:

A young

homosexual Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to peop ...

man wrestles with the stigma of being gay in contemporary Britain. * Two pages of the story were deemed not fit for publication, and removed.

Third World War

:Published: #1-27 (17 September 1988 to 16 September 1989), #29-38 (14 October 1989 to 17 February 1990), #40-51 (17 March to October 1990), #53 (December 1990) :Writers: Pat Mills (all) with

Alan Mitchell Alan Mitchell may refer to: * Alan Mitchell (botanist) * Alan Mitchell (comics) * Alan Mitchell (politician) Alan E. Mitchell is a Canadian former politician. He represented the electoral district of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour in the Nova Scotia Hou ...

(#17-21, #24-48 and #53),

Malachy Coney Malachy Coney is a comics writer and cartoonist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He grew up in Ardoyne in the north of the city.''Fractured Visions'part oneanpart two video documentary, 2010 Biography Coney's first notable comics work was a two-e ...

(#22-23),

Tony Skinner Tony may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer * Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby leagu ...

(#49-51) :Artists:

Carlos Ezquerra Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra (12 November 1947 – 1 October 2018) was a Spanish comics artist who worked mainly in British comics. He is best known as the co-creator of ''Judge Dredd''. Biography Early work Born in Ibdes, province of Zaragoza, Arag ...

(#1-6, #9-14, #17-18, #20-21), D'Israeli (#7), Angela Kincaid (#8, #15; as Angie Mills),

John Hicklenton John Hicklenton (8 May 1967 – 19 March 2010), aka John Deadstock, was a British comics artist best known for his brutal, visceral work on flagship '' 2000 AD'' characters like ''Judge Dredd'' (in particular ''Heavy Metal Dredd'') and ''Nemesi ...

(#16, #25, #29, #35, #53),

(#19, #26),

(#22-24, #27, #31, #33-34),

Richard Piers Rayner Richard Piers Rayner () is an English comic book artist. He is best known for his work on ''Road to Perdition''. Biography Richard Piers Rayner began his professional comic career in 1988, illustrating for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. His works ...

(#30),

Glyn Dillon Glyn Dillon (born 1971About: Glyn Dillon
, SelfMadeHero) is a British costume designer, as well ...

(#32, #40-44), David Pugh(#36, #49-51), Robert Blackwell (#37, #45-48), Tim Perkins (#38) In the near future, global corporations are exploiting commercial opportunities in the developing world under the guise of FreeAid, a military security force. Eve Collins, an unemployed university graduate, is conscripted as a soldier working for FreeAid. * Material from ''Crisis'' #1-14 was reprinted for the American market as the 1990 limited series ''Third World War''.

Trip to Tulum

:Published: #60-63 (July to October 1991) :Writer:

Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most i ...

:Artist: Milo Manara After falling into a pond chasing

's hat, a beautiful woman finds herself in a strange, magical world. * Originally published in Italian as ''Viaggio a Tulum'' by Rizzoli Libri in 1990. A collected album of the English translation was issued by

Catalan Communications Catalan Communications was a New York City publishing company that existed from 1983 to 1991 and was operated by Bernd Metz (1944–2012), which mainly focused on English-language translations of European graphic novels presented in a series of h ...

the same year.

Troubled Souls

:Published: #15-27 (1 April to 16 September 1989 :Writer: Garth Ennis :Artist: John McCrea In 1989

protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...

youth Tom Boyd finds himself unwittingly drawn into an

IRA Ira or IRA may refer to: *Ira (name), a Hebrew, Sanskrit, Russian or Finnish language personal name *Ira (surname), a rare Estonian and some other language family name *Iran, UNDP code IRA Law *Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, US, on status of ...

plot - and becoming friends with

catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

volunteer Damian McWilliams. * Followed by " For a Few Troubles More". Later collected as ''Troubled Souls - A Crisis Graphic Novel''.

True Faith

:Published: #29-38 (14 October 1989 to 17 February 1990) :Writer: Garth Ennis :Artist: Warren Pleece After growing increasingly cynical about the

Christians Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

he encounters in day-to-day life, teenager Nigel Gibson becomes fascinated after a chance encounter with Terry Adair, a man who plans to kill God by using a terror campaign against organised religion to draw the deity out into the open.

Wroom

:Published: #52-58 (November 1990 to May 1991) :Writer:

( as IZ) :Artist: Dix

One-off stories

*To Serve and Protect :Published: #21 (24 June 1989) :Writer/artist:

Floyd Hughes Floyd Hughes is a British, Brooklyn-based production designer, storyboard artist and comic book illustrator. He is also an art professor at the Pratt Institute. Early life Hughes was born in the East End of London, to Guyanese parents. He s ...

( as Floyd R. Jones-Hughes) *The Geek :Published: #22 (8 July 1989) :Writer:

:Artist: Jim McCarthy *The Student Konstabel :Published: #28 (30 September 1989) :Writer/artist: Phillip Swarbrick *Her Parents :Published: #31 (11 November 1989) :Writer:

:Artist: John McCrea *The Clicking of High Heels :Published: #32 (25 November 1989) :Writer: Sarah Bromley-Anderson :Artist:

*Two Pretty Names :Published: #33 (9 December 1989) :Writers:

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and Sue Swasey :Artists: Phil Laskey and Carol Swain *Squirrels in Carroll Street :Published: #34 (23 December 1989) :Writer/artist:

*Feedback :Published: #34 (23 December 1989) :Writer/artist:

Al Davison Al Davison is an English comic book writer and artist from Newcastle, England. He now resides in Coventry, where he runs The Astral Gypsy, his studio and comic shop in Fargo Village, Far Gosford Street, with his wife Maggie. He is most famous for ...

*Didn't You Love My Brother? :Published: #35 (6 January 1990) :Writer: Tony Allen :Artist: David Hine *Suburban Hell :Published: #36 (20 January 1990) :Writer: Garth Ennis :Artist: Phillip Swarbrick *Banged Up :Published: #37 (3 February 1990) :Writer: Jack Blackburn :Artist: David Lloyd *The Death Factory :Published: #39 (3 March 1990) :Writer: Pat Mills :Artist:

::*Produced in association with

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

. *A Kind of Madness :Published: #39 (3 March 1990) :Writer: Pat Mills :Artist:

::*Produced in association with

. *A Day in the Life :Published: #39 (3 March 1990) :Writer:

:Artist:

Glenn Fabry Glenn Fabry (; born 24 March 1961) is a British comics artist known for his detailed, realistic work in both ink and painted colour. Career Glenn Fabry's career began in 1985, drawing ''Sláine (comics), Slaine'' for ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD ...

::*Produced in association with

. *Murky Waters :Published: #40 (17 March 1990) :Writer: James Robinson :Artist:

Tony Salmons Thomas Anthony "Tony" Salmons (born January 1, 1957) is an American alternative comic book artist, film storyboard artist and character designer. Biography Born in Rolla, Missouri, Salmons grew up in Casa Grande, Arizona, with stops in New York ...

*Brighton Gas :Published: #41 (31 March 1990) :Writer: Gary Pleece :Artist: Warren Pleece *C-Rap :Published: #41 (31 March 1990) :Writer: Peter Hogan :Artist:

Edmund Bagwell Edmund Bagwell (1966 – 2017) was a British comics artist. Professionally he was also known as Edmund Perryman, EC Perriman, Edmund Kitsune, Anonyman and Anoniman. Bagwell was born in Preston, England, and studied art at Leeds Polytechnic. Hi ...

( as Anoniman) *Passion and Fire :Published: #42 (14 April 1990) :Writer:

:Artist:

Oscar Zárate Oscar Zárate (born 1942) is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. Zarate studied architecture and had a successful career in advertising in Argentina. He moved to Europe in 1971 and began to work in earnest as an illustrator. He has dra ...

*Faceless :Published: #42 (14 April 1990) :Writer/artist:

*The Ballad of Andrew Brown :Published: #43 (28 April 1990) :Writer: Garth Ennis :Artist: Phil Winslade *Try a Little Tenderness :Published: #44 (12 May 1990) :Writer:

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:Artist: Steve Sampson *Masters of Disguise :Published: #44 (12 May 1990) :Writer/artist: Tomoko Rei Sato *The Farmer and the Soldiers :Published: #44 (12 May 1990) :Writer:

:Artists: David Lloyd and Caroline Della Porta *Felicity :Published: #47 (23 June 1990) :Writer: Chris Standley :Artist:

Pete Doherty Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist. He is best known for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in 1997. His other musical projects are indie b ...

*The Soldier & the Painter :Published: #48 (7 July 1990) :Writer:

:Artist: Phil Winslade *Chicken Run :Published: #49 (21 July 1989) :Writer: Gary Pleece :Artist: Warren Pleece *No Messin' with Rupert :Published: #50 (September 1990) :Writer:

:Artist:

*Your Death, My Life :Published: #50 (September 1990) :Writer/artist: Milo Manara *Suddenly, Last Week :Published: #51 (October 1990) :Writer: Nicholas Vince :Artist: Paul Johnson *The Wall :Published: #51 (October 1990) :Writer: Tony Allen :Artist: Enki Bilal *The Power of the Pen :Published: #51 (October 1990) :Writer/artist:

Alberto Breccia Alberto Breccia (April 15, 1919 – November 10, 1993) was an Uruguayan-born Argentina, Argentine artist and cartoonist. A gifted penciller and inker, Breccia is one of the most celebrated and famous comics/Historieta creators in the world, and sp ...

*Prisoner of Justice :Published:#52 (November 1990) :Writer:

:Artist:

*The Happiest Days :Published: #52 (November 1990) :Writer: Martine d'Ellard :Artist: Caroline Della Porta *The School :Published: #53 (December 1990) :Writer: Martine d'Ellard :Artist:

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*In Cages, There is No Escape :Published: #54 (January 1991) :Writer/artist: Paul Johnson *Passing Through :Published: #55 (February 1991 :Writer/artist:

Miguelanxo Prado Miguelanxo Prado () is a Galician people, Galician comic book creator. He was born in A Coruña, Spain in 1958. Biography Prado studied architecture, wrote novels and painted before his career in comics. He worked for several magazines and wro ...

*Lord Jim :Published: #59 (June 1991) :Writer:

:Artist: Steve Sampson *Unlikely Stories, Mostly: End Game :Published: #60 (July 1991) :Writer/artist:

*Light Me :Published: #61 (August 1991) :Writer: Garth Ennis :Artist: Phil Winslade *Worms :Published: #62 (September 1991) :Writer/artist: David Hine *Waddle on the Wild Side :Published: #62 (September 1991) :Writer/artist:

*Charlie Lives with Fan and Snuggles :Published: #62 (September 1991) :Writer: Garth Ennis :Artist: Ian Oldham *Body Snatchers :Published: #62 (September 1991) :Writers: Ian Abnett & Alan Cowsill :Artist: Andrew Currie *Strange Hotel :Published: #62 (September 1991) :Writer:

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:Artist: Adrian Dungworthy *The Big Voice :Published: #63 (October 1991) :Writer:

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( as Edmund Perryman) *Operation Massacre :Published: #63 (October 1991) :Writer: Gabriel López :Artist: Francisco Solano López *Commuter's Journey :Published: #63 (October 1991) :Writer/artist:

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