''Manix'' was both the title and main character of a comic strip serial published in the

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''. The serial first appeared in issue 24 (dated September 4, 1982). The serial was created by Alan Grant and

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, who scripted the early

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s. The strip was subsequently written by Grant using the pseudonym "Keith Law", and later by

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. The early adventures, like most of the serials published in ''Eagle'' at the time, were fumetti: illustrated by black-and-white photographs using actors, with text boxes and speech balloons superimposed. The photography for ''Manix'' was by

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. When Eagle ceased to publish fumettis and moved to a traditionally illustrated format in 1983, the art for the ''Manix'' strip was provided by Manuel Carmona.

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