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Trevor Thompson
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And Just browsing the web I came across a site which featured British comics, particularly ones from the 70s. I noticed how violent they were. I mean these comics were aimed at kids but the violence was brutal. There’s a book called Action which featured a series called kids Rule OK. It’s set in the then near future of 1986 where adults have been wiped out by a plague and there are roaming gangs killing each other to gain supremacy. It eventually got banned but I’m surprised it even got off the ground.
Look out for Lefty (Action Comics) was about a young soccer player who had a tremendous left foot. It also featured football hooligans too.
Do any of our UK residents remember comics like that and was there anything similar aimed at kids in the US?
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Battle, Action were very famous. There were a lot of others as well.
The violence in Action was featured on various news programmes. The most famous shots were of Hook Jaw spearing a bloke & a scene where a football hooligan shouted ‘Kick his flaming teeth in’
I was about 7 or 8 when Action first came out & thought it was Ok. I couldn’t imagine letting my son read it. Strange how that double standard takes hold as we grow older
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Trevor Thompson
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different times. A comic like that wouldn’t see the light of day now. I’d like to get my hands on some of those books now.
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I do remember ACTION, Trevor. Such things seem very tame by 2018 standards.
"Hook Jaw" was a pretty violent strip, a shark story published to jump on the JAWS bandwagon.
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Rebellion have brought out a reprint collection of Hookjaw.
I loved Action when it first came out. The violence in it was unusual for British comics. Questions were asked in Parliament, but I don't think it was actually banned - it was more that the editors got cold feet and emasculated it. Action (and the war comic Battle) led to 2000 AD, it's remembered pretty fondly by fans my age I think. The book "Action: The Story of a Violent Comic" gets crazy prices on ebay..
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Remember Major Eazy? He was British, looked like James Coburn, drove a Rolls Royce, and wore a leather jacket and an Afrika Corps hat for some reason. Pre-Dredd Carlos Ezquerra art, violence and casual 1970s racism.
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Trevor Thompson
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Tame, you say, Robbie. They seem pretty violent for a comic aimed at kids. I had a copy of Oink which had a strip of a serial killer who was going around slaughtering anthropomorphic pigs. Quite graphic and freaked me out a bit at the time. Definitely different times.
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The most violent comic books I've ever seen were from Japan.
There were a few Brit tv series in the '70s that were sort of gritty looks into bad futures... like Doom Watch, Survivors, The Changes, but they didn't get too Lord Of The Flies or Mad Max usually. I think racism could be blunt if it wasn't portrayed as positive, but I remember some things that were not all that negative, just showing that it was out there.
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Trevor, can you share a link to the site?
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Paul Lloyd wrote:
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It's a pity that they didn't ask questions about their own sexual and financial deviancy.
"Look, comics are a threat to the country's morals. Yes, look at them...now, let's get on with being financially and sexually deviant."
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I collected Battle once it became Battle-Action Force. Seemed pretty innocuous to me by then (I collected it probably from about 1983 to 1986, I'd guess, when I was 8 to 11 years old). Boys own stuff, for the main part. Maybe it was worse in the earlier days, but my main memories of it was that it really, really liked the armed forces.
Edited by Peter Martin on 19 May 2018 at 5:23pm
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WARLORD was another British war comic. Very jingoistic, but weren't they all?
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