Four years ago today I launched Combat Colin No.1 at Macc-Pow! 2017. I've published a few more since and *hopefully* issue 5 will finally appear later this year. BUT... to celebrate today being the comic's anniversary I'm selling the last few remaining copies I have of issue 1 on eBay. Here's the link...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203510087287
Combat Colin No.1 features 40 pages and collects the entire run of Combat Colin strips that were published in Action Force in 1987/88.
Originally published by Marvel UK, the Combat Colin strip ran from 1987 to 1991 and featured the comedy adventures of gormless-but-heroic Colin and his assistant Semi-Automatic Steve battling robots, monsters, alien warlords, and anyone threatening the peace of Wallytown and neighbouring Skegpool. Marvel UK returned all rights to the character to me, and I've since featured Combat Colin in various comics over the years.
The stories in issue one show the development of the strip from its early half-page gag strip beginnings to its evolution to full page serialised stories. You'll see Combat Colin encounter his first foe, Doctor Nasty, and other villains such as Aunt Arctic of the Antarctic! Colin's adventures take him from his back garden to the pyramids of Egypt and beyond, and this is just the beginning!
The strips are scanned from the original artwork, where available, or from the actual comics. Although originally published in colour (with colours added by the Marvel UK staff) the collected strips appear in black and white (or greyscale for the pages scanned from the colour comics).
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| With David Leach at MACC-POW! in 2017. Photo by Irene Lea. |
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