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Speed No. 3, dated 8 March 1980. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Treasury of British Comics.
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Speed No. 3, dated 8 March 1980. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Treasury of British Comics.
1977 ad for the Shade the Changing Man series by Steve Ditko. It ran for 8 issues before being cancelled. DC.
Battle Action No. 257, dated 8 March 1980. Cover by Carlos Ezquerra. Treasury of British Comics.
Battle Action Force No. 566, dated 8 March 1986. Snow Job cover by Vanyo. Treasury of British Comics.
Tanks from two different eras on the the front and back pages of Warlord No. 24, dated 8 March 1975. The Mark I on the cover by Jeff Bevan and a back page feature on the Chieftain tank.
DC Thomson.
Warlord No. 598, dated 8 March 1986. Goum cover, artist unknown but it mainly came from a panel of interior art in No. 600. Goum was a Moroccan mercenary during the Second World War. DC Thomson.
Battle Picture Weekly No. 1, dated 8 March 1975. I've seen the cover painting attributed to Oliver Frey. The standout strip for me in the early issues of Battle was Day of the Eagle by Eric Hebden and Pat Wright.
It was clearly part influenced by the success of the Frederick Forsyth novel Day of the Jackal.
Treasury of British Comics.
Hotspur and Crunch No. 1064, dated 8 March 1980. King Cobra cover by Keith Shone (b. 1931). Keith's work will be familiar to many UK comic readers, especially those of the DC Thomson titles. He was one of several artists to work on King Cobra after Ron Smith had left. DC Thomson.