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Battle Action Force cover dated 30/6/1984. 37 years ago today for 22p.

'The Menace of the Mamba Men' cover by Vanyo. Someone must have decided to use every single font they had on this cover. The letterer must have charged a fortune.

Inside was the first episode of 'Death Castle' - Great name but as a venue it's not going to get many tourists. It was drawn by veteran artist Ron Turner and script by James Nicholas (son of Barrie Tomlinson, a long time editor and writer of UK comics). Good stuff.

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You knew James [Nicholas], my late husband, a Cree writer, actor and government liaison for the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation. None of the video or photographic works that he and I did in the name of reconciliation for fifteen years ever seemed to sit still. I would think we were doing one thing and, unexpectedly, the work would turn upside down. I remember James and I talking about generosity with an elder at Waterhen Lake Cree Nation. I understood then that white government people turned things upside down by making themselves the generous ones. Generosity and power are so connected. I asked James if he could teach me how to say, in Cree, thank you for sharing the land. He responded, “You don’t understand. Sharing is the law. The land owns itself.”

Sandra Semchuk, from the collection The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation

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Crossfire Creek 2001

Looking back at Battle Action Force

The first appearance of Action Force, for a four-issue run in June 1983

Many older British comic fans will remember Marvel UK’s Action Force comic, but the team had another home – in issues of IPC’s Battle in the early 1980s. Luke Williams looks back at the stories…

By the early 1980s, sales on the war / action title Battle, the first wave in the Pat Mills / John Wagner revitalisation of the IPC…

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