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Crisis was a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

comic

Comics anthology

Comics anthologies collect works in the medium of comics that are too short for standalone publication.- U.S. :- UK :British comics have a long tradition publishing comics anthologies, often weekly...

published from 1988

1988 in comics

-Events and publications:* Jack Binder, creator of the original Daredevil, dies at c. age 86.* Tarpé Mills, creator Miss Fury, dies at c. age 73....

to 1991

1991 in comics

-January:* Checkmate is canceled by DC Comics with issue #33.* El Diablo vol. 2 is canceled by DC with issue #16.* Count Duckula is canceled by the Marvel Comics imprint Star Comics with issue #15....

as an experiment by Fleetway

Fleetway

Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a UK publishing company which mainly produced comic magazines. For a time owned by IPC Media, they are now a division of Egmont Publishing....

to see if intelligent, mature, politically

Politics

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and socially

Society

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aware comics were saleable in the United Kingdom. The comic was initially published fortnightly, and was one of the most visible components of the late-80s British comics boom, along with Deadline
Deadline magazine
Deadline was a British comic magazine published between 1988 and 1995.Created by 2000 AD stalwarts Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon, Deadline featured a mix of comic strips and written articles targeted at older readers...

, Revolver, and Toxic!
Toxic!
Toxic! was a British weekly comic book published by Apocalypse Ltd. A total of 31 issues were published from March 28-October 24, 1991.-History:...

.

History

Crisis was Fleetway

Fleetway

's response to the success of Deadline
Deadline magazine
Deadline was a British comic magazine published between 1988 and 1995.Created by 2000 AD stalwarts Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon, Deadline featured a mix of comic strips and written articles targeted at older readers...

. David Bishop

David Bishop

David Bishop is a screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD, the latter between 1996 and the summer of 2000....

, in his Thrill Power Overload
Thrill Power Overload
Thrill Power Overload, or TPO is the title of a book about the history of the British comic 2000 AD written by David Bishop, one of its editors.- History :...

, comments "2000 AD had once represented the cutting edge of British comics, but was now in danger of looking staid and old fashioned next to Deadline".

Crisis would offer to make the work creator-owned, which might the chance for royalties and greater copyright control, which was a departure from the way they had done business up until then. They also planned to turn the stories into American comic books which would sell better on the other side of the Atlantic, although ultimately only the first few titles got this treatment and the title moved to shorter stories after issue #14.
As a 2000 AD
2000 AD (comic)
2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold...

spin-off, it was initially science fiction

Science fiction

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based. It began with two stories: Third World War, by Pat Mills

Pat Mills

Pat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since....

and Carlos Ezquerra

Carlos Ezquerra

Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra , who has also worked under the alias L. John Silver, is a Spanish comics artist who works mainly in British comics and currently lives in Andorra...

, extrapolated some of the effects of global capitalism

Capitalism

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on the developing world into the near future, as seen through the eyes of a group of young conscript "peace volunteer" soldiers; New Statesmen
New Statesmen (comics)
New Statesmen was a "political superhero series" featured in British comic Crisis, created by John Smith and Jim Baikie, which lasted for fourteen episodes from 1988 to 1989.-Publications history:...

was a "realistic superhero" strip by John Smith

John Smith (comics)

John Smith is a British comics writer best known for his work on 2000 AD and Crisis.Smith's work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult, told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of...

and Jim Baikie

Jim Baikie

Jim Baikie is a British comics artist, who is best known for his work with Alan Moore on Skizz.-Biography:Baikie began his career illustrating Valentine for Fleetway. Over the next twenty years, he built a solid reputation working for TV comics such as Look-in, including adaptations of The Monkees...

. Third World War later moved on from developing world topics to minority issues within the UK

United Kingdom

and introduced two new artists, Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips is a British comic book artist.He is best known in the American comic book industry for his work on DC Comics' Sleeper, WildC.A.T.s, Batman and Hellblazer.-Career:...

and Duncan Fegredo

Duncan Fegredo

Duncan Fegredo is a British comic book artist born in Leicester in 1964.-Career:Fegredo first managed to get into comics after showing his portfolio around UKCAC in 1987 and meeting Dave Thorpe. Together they worked on a strip for a short lived British magazine called Heartbreak Hotel...

, while Mills took on co-writers including Alan Mitchell

Alan Mitchell (comics)

-Biography:In 1988 Mitchell began writing in partnership with Pat Mills, who met the writer while Mitchell was working as a shop manager for Acme Comics in Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, South London. Mills was looking for a black writer to help him create a nightmare urban world based in the UK...

and Malachy Coney

Malachy Coney

Malachy Coney is a comics writer and cartoonist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He grew up in Ardoyne in the north of the city.-Biography:Coney's first notable comics work was a two-episode installment of Third World War, "A Symphony of Splintered Wood", co-written with Pat Mills and painted by...

.

When New Statesmen finished it was replaced by two contemporary stories: Troubled Souls by Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise...

and John McCrea

John McCrea

John McCrea is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis.-Career:...

, set amid the "troubles" of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

, and Sticky Fingers, a flatshare comedy by Myra Hancock and David Hine

David Hine

-Biography:Hine has been working in comics since the early 1980s. For Crisis he drew the series Sticky Fingers in 1989, and wrote and drew a number of short pieces in 1990 and 1991...

. Troubled Souls was Ennis's comics debut, and led to a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, and a religious satire, True Faith, the latter illustrated by Warren Pleece

Warren Pleece

Warren Pleece is a British comics artist. He is best known for his work at the DC Comics imprint Vertigo.-Biography:With his brother Gary Pleece, he wrote and drew four issues of a self published comics magazine called Velocity between 1987 and 1989...

.

True Faith and another proposed strip, Skin by Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan born in London, a British writer, best known for his comic book, film and television work.-Early career:Milligan started his comic career with short stories for 2000 AD in the early 1980s. By 1986, Milligan had his first ongoing strip in 2000AD called Bad Company, with artists Brett...

and Brendan McCarthy

Brendan McCarthy

Brendan McCarthy is a British artist and designer best known for his work in comic books, film and television.- Biography :Brendan McCarthy, of Irish descent, was born in London. Brendan soon began painting and drawing his own home-made comics....

, about skinhead

Skinhead

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s and thalidomide

Thalidomide

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, ran into problems with censorship. Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell

Ian Robert Maxwell MC was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire...

, Fleetway's then owner, withdrew the collected edition of True Faith from sale after receiving objections from religious groups; Skin was dropped after the printers refused to handle it, probably over its harsh language. Skin was later published as a graphic novel by Tundra

Tundra Publishing

Tundra Publishing was a Northampton, Massachusetts-based comic book publisher founded by Kevin Eastman in 1990.-Overview:Tundra was meant to provide a venue for high-quality work by talented cartoonists and illustrators. Its publications were noted in the trade for their high production values,...

, and failed to generate any noticeable outrage.

Another casualty of censorship was John Smith and Sean Phillips's Straitgate. Its main character was intended to be a self-obsessed young loner who suffers from delusions and ends up going on a killing spree, but it was toned down until he became little more than a self-obsessed young loner.

Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright and occultist. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four, All-Star Superman, and...

and Steve Yeowell

Steve Yeowell

Steve Yeowell is a British comics artist, well-known for his work on the long-running science fiction and fantasy weekly comic 2000 AD.-Biography:...

contributed The New Adventures of Hitler
The New Adventures of Hitler
The New Adventures of Hitler was a highly controversial comic series written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell which first appeared in Cut, a Scottish arts magazine in 1989 before being reprinted in the anthology Crisis in 1990....

(originally published in Cut, a Scottish arts and culture magazine), a speculative story about how the young Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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's stay in England

England

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might have affected his later actions. Morrison also wrote Bible John
Bible John-A Forensic Meditation
Bible John - A Forensic Meditation was a story written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Daniel Vallely which appeared in the anthology title Crisis #56-61 in 1991.-Publishing history:...

, illustrated by Daniel Vallely

Daniel Vallely

Daniel Vallely is a designer, illustrator, comic book writer/artist, photographer, filmmaker, musician, and producer.Vallely's first published work was in Saviour, written by Mark Millar and published by Trident Comics in 1989. Vallely only drew one and a half issues before setting all the pages...

, about a series of murders in Glasgow

Glasgow

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, and Dare, his revisionist take on Dan Dare

Dan Dare

Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories, that is, the Venus and Red Moon stories, and a complete storyline for Operation Saturn...

. Dare was drawn by Rian Hughes

Rian Hughes

Rian Hughes is a British graphic designer, illustrator and comics artist, noted for his work on 2000AD, where he illustrated Robo-Hunter, Tales from Beyond Science, Really and Truly and Dan Dare, among others...

, and had started in Revolver, the sister comic of Crisis. Unfortunately Revolver folded before the last episode of the story, which was therefore concluded in Crisis. Morrison's frequent collaborator Mark Millar

Mark Millar

Mark Millar is a Scottish comic book writer, known for his work on books such as The Authority, The Ultimates, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, Wanted, and Kick-Ass, the latter two of which have been adapted into feature films...

contributed a grim prison story, Insiders, drawn by Paul Grist

Paul Grist

Paul Grist is a British comic book creator, noted for his hard-boiled police series Kane and his unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff.-Biography:...

.

Later issues of Crisis included a number of translated European strips, including Milo Manara

Milo Manara

Maurilio Manara – known professionally as Milo Manara – is an Italian comic book writer and artist, best known for his erotic approach to the medium.-Career:...

and Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

's Trip to Tuluum (collected in a trade paperback published by Catalan Communications

Catalan Communications

Catalan Communications was a New York publishing company, operated by Bernd Metz, which mainly focused on English-language translations of European graphic novels, presented in a series of high-quality trade paperbacks.-Company history:...

) and a number of short strips by Miguelanxo Prado

Miguelanxo Prado

Miguelanxo Prado is a Spanish comic book creator. He was born in A Coruña, Galicia in 1958.-Biography:Prado studied architecture, wrote novels and painted before his career in comics....

. After issue 49 Crisis was published monthly, for 14 further issues, finally ending in October 1991.

Other creators whose work appeared in Crisis include Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley is a British comics artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. His style, reliant on paints, acrylics, inks and multiple-mediums, is strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta, Bill Sienkiewicz, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí, Egon Schiele, and Richard Corben...

, Glenn Fabry

Glenn Fabry

Glenn Fabry is an Eisner Award-winning British comics artist known for his detailed, realistic work in both ink and painted colour.-Biography:...

, John Hicklenton

John Hicklenton

John Hicklenton was a British comics artist best known for his brutal, visceral work on flagship 2000 AD characters like Judge Dredd and Nemesis the Warlock during the eighties and nineties.He suffered from multiple sclerosis and recorded an award-winning documentary about...

, Philip Bond

Philip Bond

Philip J. Bond is a British comic book artist, who first came to prominence in the late 1980s on Deadline magazine, and later through a number of collaborations with British writers for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo....

, Si Spencer

Si Spencer

Si Spencer is a British comic book writer and TV dramatist and editor, with work appearing in British comics such as Crisis, before moving to the American comics industry...

, Steve Sampson, Chris Standley, Peter Doherty

Peter Doherty (comics)

Peter Doherty is a British comic book artist and colourist.-Biography:Doherty's work over a 15 year career has mainly been concentrated on the classic 2000 AD character Judge Dredd. He has illustrated several significant episodes of the strip...

, Igor Goldkind, Tony Allen, James Robinson

James Dale Robinson

James Dale Robinson is a British writer of comic books and screenplays who is also known for his interest in vintage collectibles and memorabilia. His style is described as smart and energetic, built upon his vast knowledge of obscure continuity from the period known to fans and historians as the...

, Tony Salmons

Tony Salmons

Tony Salmons is an American alternative comic book artist, film storyboard artist and character designer.-Biography:Born in Rolla, Missouri, Salmons grew up in Casa Grande, Arizona, with stops in New York City and San Francisco...

, Oscar Zarate

Oscar Zarate

Oscar Zarate is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. He has drawn for the UK comics magazine Crisis. He is probably best known in the United States as the artist for Alan Moore's graphic novel A Small Killing. He has drawn an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello...

, Paul Neary

Paul Neary

Paul Neary is a British comic book artist, writer and editor.His first work was for Warren Publishing in the 1970s before working with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK as well as work for 2000 AD...

, Steve Parkhouse

Steve Parkhouse

Steve Parkhouse is a writer, artist and letterer who has worked for many British comics, especially 2000 AD and Doctor Who Magazine.-Biography:...

and Bernie Jaye.

Ultimately the comic did not sell sufficiently well to survive, and Fleetway cancelled it in 1991

1991 in comics

. Nevertheless, while it lasted, Crisis broke the mould of British comics by publishing stories which tackled urban

City

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struggles, political issues, economic

Economics

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inequality, sexual

Gender

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politics, racial and nationalistic

Country

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disputes, and cutting-edge speculative writing.

Third World War continued in 2000 AD in the spin-off series Finn
Finn (comics)
Finn was the hero of a comic strip written by Pat Mills. He first appeared in British fortnightly anthology comic Crisis in 1989, and later moved to 2000 AD when Crisis was cancelled in 1991. In Crisis he started as a supporting character called Paul in the strip Third World War, before becoming...

.

Editors

Steve MacManus
Steve MacManus
Steve MacManus is a British comic writer and editor, particularly known for his work at 2000 AD.Born in London and educated in Devon, MacManus joined IPC in 1973, aged 20, as a sub-editor on the boys' weekly comic Valiant, until 1975 when he moved to Battle Picture Weekly under editor David Hunt...

#1–49
Steve MacManus
Steve MacManus
Steve MacManus is a British comic writer and editor, particularly known for his work at 2000 AD.Born in London and educated in Devon, MacManus joined IPC in 1973, aged 20, as a sub-editor on the boys' weekly comic Valiant, until 1975 when he moved to Battle Picture Weekly under editor David Hunt...

and Michael W. Bennent #50–52
Michael W. Bennent #53–63

Stories

Third World War

Book I

Issues: 1-14

Episodes: 14

Pages: 196 of strip, plus 14 pages of text

Script: Pat Mills

Pat Mills

Art: Carlos Ezquerra

Carlos Ezquerra

Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra , who has also worked under the alias L. John Silver, is a Spanish comics artist who works mainly in British comics and currently lives in Andorra...

episodes 1-6, 9-14; D'Israeli

D'Israeli

Matt Brooker, whose work most often appears under the pseudonym D'Israeli , is a British comic artist, colorist, writer and letterer. Other pseudonyms he uses include "Molly Eyre" , for his writing, and "Harry V...

7; Angie Mills

Angela Kincaid

Angela Kincaid, formerly known by her married name of Angela Mills, is a children's book illustrator best known for The Butterfly Children series of picture books. With her then husband, Pat Mills, she created the Celtic comics character Sláine for 2000 AD.-External links:*...

8

Dated: 17/9/88 to 18/3/89

Book II

Issues: 15-27, 29-38

Episodes: 23

Pages: 322

Script: Pat Mills 1-23; with Alan Mitchell

Alan Mitchell (comics)

3-7, 10-23, and Malachy Coney

Malachy Coney

8-9

Art: Angie Mills 1; John Hicklenton

John Hicklenton

2, 11, 14, 20; Carlos Ezquerra 3-4, 6-7; Duncan Fegredo

Duncan Fegredo

5, 12; Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips is a British comic book artist.He is best known in the American comic book industry for his work on DC Comics' Sleeper, WildC.A.T.s, Batman and Hellblazer.-Career:...

8-10, 13, 18-19; Sean Phillips & Shaun Hollywood 16; Richard Piers-Rayner 15; Richard Piers-Rayner & Tim Perkins 23; Glyn Dillon 17; Steve Pugh

Steve Pugh

Steve Pugh is a British comic book artist who has worked for most of the major comic producers on both sides of the Atlantic: DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and 2000 AD.-Biography:...

21; Robert Blackwell 22

Dated: 1/4/89 to 17/2/90

Note: Segments "Ivan’s Story" in #36 and "Ryan’s Story" in #25, 29 and 35 conclude in Book IV.

Book III: The Big Heat

Issues: 40-41, 43-48

Episodes: 8

Pages: 112

Script: Pat Mills and Alan Mitchell

Art: Glynn Dillon 1-4; Rob Blackwell 5-8

Dated: 17/3/90 to 7/7/90

Book IV: Ivan’s Story

Issues: 49-51

Episodes: 3

Pages: 42

Script: Pat Mills and Alan Mitchell

Art: Steve Pugh

Dated: 21/7/90 to Oct 90

Note: Episodes 2-4 of story beginning in #36.

Book IV: The Final Problem

Issue: 53

Episodes: 1

Pages: 14

Script: Pat Mills and Alan Mitchell

Art: John Hicklenton

Dated: Dec 90

Note: Fourth episode of "Ryan’s Story," from #25, 29, 35.

New Statesmen

New Statesmen (comics)

New Statesmen was a "political superhero series" featured in British comic Crisis, created by John Smith and Jim Baikie, which lasted for fourteen episodes from 1988 to 1989.-Publications history:...

Issues: 1-12

Episodes: 12

Pages: 192 strip, plus 13 text

Script: John Smith

John Smith (comics)

Art: Jim Baikie

Jim Baikie

1-4, 9-12; Sean Phillips 5-6; Dincan Fegredo 7-8

Dated: 17/9/88 to 18/2/89

Epilogue

Issues: 13-14

Episodes: 2

Pages: 26

Script: John Smith

Art: Sean Phillips

Dated: 4/3/89 to 18/3/89

Prologue

Issue: 28

Episodes: 1

Pages: 14

Script: John Smith

Art: Jim Baikie

Dated: 30/9/89

Sticky Fingers

Issues: 15-21, 23-27

Episodes: 12

Pages: 81

Script: Myra Hancock

Art: David Hine

David Hine

-Biography:Hine has been working in comics since the early 1980s. For Crisis he drew the series Sticky Fingers in 1989, and wrote and drew a number of short pieces in 1990 and 1991...

Dated: 1/4/89 to 16/9/89

Troubled Souls

Issues: 15-20, 22-27

Episodes: 12

Pages: 89

Script: Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise...

Art: John McCrea

John McCrea

John McCrea is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis.-Career:...

Dated: 1/4/89 to 16/9/89

To Serve and Protect

Issue: 21

Episodes: 1

Pages: 6

Script and art: Floyd R. Jones-Hughes

Floyd Hughes

Floyd Hughes is a Brooklyn based production designer, storyboard artist and comic book illustrator. He is also an art professor at the Pratt Institute.-Early life:Floyd Hughes was born in the East End of London to Guyanese parents...

Dated: 24/6/89

The Geek

Issue: 22

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Mal Coney

Art: Jim McCarthy

Dated: 8/7/89

The Student Konstabel

Issue: 28

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script and art: Phillip J. Swarbrick

Dated: 30/9/89

Angels Among Us

Issues: 28-38

Episodes: 11

Pages: 15

Script and art: Phillip Bond

Dated: 30/9/89 to 17/2/90

Note: a.k.a. "The Crooked Mile."

True Faith

Issues: 29-38

Episodes: 10

Pages: 91

Script: Garth Ennis

Art: Warren Pleece

Warren Pleece

Dated: 14/10/89 to 17/2/90

Her Parents

Issue: 31

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script: Mark Millar

Mark Millar

Art: John McCrea

Dated: 11/11/89

The Clicking of High Heels

Issue: 32

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Sarah Bromley-Anderson

Art: Floyd Hughes

Dated: 25/11/89

Two Pretty Names

Issue: 33

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script: Si Spencer

Si Spencer

Si Spencer is a British comic book writer and TV dramatist and editor, with work appearing in British comics such as Crisis, before moving to the American comics industry...

and Sue Swasey

Art: Phil Laskey and Carol Swain

Dated: 9/12/89

Squirrels in Carroll Street

Issue: 34

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script and art: Floyd Hughes

Dated: 23/12/89

Feedback

Issue: 34

Episodes: 1

Pages: 2

Script and art: Al Davidson

Dated: 23/12/89

Didn’t You Love My Brother?

Issue: 35

Episodes: 1

Pages: 11

Script: Tony Allen

Art: David Hine

Dated: 6/1/90

Suburban Hell

The Unusual Obsession of Mrs Orton

Issue: 36

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Garth Ennis

Art: Phillip J. Swarbrick

Dated: 20/1/90

Banged Up

Issue: 37

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Jack Blackburn

Art: David Lloyd

Dated: 3/2/90

The Death Factory

Issue: 39

Episodes: 1

Pages: 21

Script: Pat Mills

Art: Sean Phillips

Dated: 3/3/90

Note: Amnesty International

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

issue.

A Kind of Madness

Issue: 39

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Pat Mills

Art: Sean Phillips

Dated: 3/3/90

A Day in the Life

Issue: 39

Episodes: 1

Pages: 4

Script: Igor Goldkind

Igor Goldkind

Igor Goldkind was a marketing consultant who worked for a number of publishers, before moving into writing comics. He currently works in semantic web development and web-based marketing.-Biography:...

Art: Glenn Fabry

Glenn Fabry

Glenn Fabry is an Eisner Award-winning British comics artist known for his detailed, realistic work in both ink and painted colour.-Biography:...

Dated: 3/3/90

Murky Waters

Issue: 40

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: James Robinson

Art: Tony Salmons

Dated: 17/3/90

For a Few Troubles More

Issues: 40-43, 45-46

Episodes: 6

Pages: 46

Script: Garth Ennis

Art: John McCrea

Dated: 17/3/90 to 9/6/90

Note: Sequel to "Troubled Souls."

Brighton Gas

Issue: 41

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Gary Pleece

Art: Warren Pleece

Dated: 31/3/90

C-RAP

Issue: 41

Episodes: 1

Pages: 1

Script: Peter Hogan

Art: Anoniman

Dated: 31/3/90

China in Crisis 1989

Issues: 42, 45

Episodes: 2

Pages: 20

Script: Tony Allen

Art: Dave Hine

Dated: 14/4/90 and 26/5/90

Passion and Fire

Issue: 42

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script: Carlos Sampayo

Carlos Sampayo

Carlos Sampayo is a writer best known for his work in comics, particularly in collaboration with artist José Muñoz...

Art: Oscar Zarote

Dated: 14/4/90

Faceless

Issue: 42

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script and art: Floyd Hughes

Dated: 14/4/90

The Ballad of Andrew Brown

Issue: 43

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script: Garth Ennis

Art: Phil Winslade

Phil Winslade

-Biography:Winslade was born in Surrey in 1965 and spent a lot of time indoors as a child because of a heart murmur. His main source of entertainment were Marvel like Howard the Duck and Deathlok. However, it wasn't until he attended Birmingham Polytechnic, to study art, that the idea of working in...

Dated: 28/4/90

Try a Little Tenderness

Issue: 44

Episodes: 1

Pages: 6

Script: Si Spencer

Art: Steve Sampson

Dated: 12/5/90

Masters of Disguise

Issue: 44

Episodes: 1

Pages: 1

Script and art: Tomoko Rei Sato

Dated: 12/5/90

The Farmer and the Soldier

Issue: 44

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Igor Goldkind

Art: David Lloyd and Caroline Dellaporta

Dated: 12/5/90

The New Adventures of Hitler

The New Adventures of Hitler

The New Adventures of Hitler was a highly controversial comic series written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell which first appeared in Cut, a Scottish arts magazine in 1989 before being reprinted in the anthology Crisis in 1990....

Issues: 46-49

Episodes: 4

Pages: 48

Script: Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison

Art: Steve Yeowell

Steve Yeowell

Steve Yeowell is a British comics artist, well-known for his work on the long-running science fiction and fantasy weekly comic 2000 AD.-Biography:...

Dated: 9/6/90 to 21/7/90

Felicity

Issue: 47

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script: Chris Standley

Art: Peter Doherty

Peter Doherty (comics)

Dated: 23/6/90

The Soldier and the Painter

Issue: 48

Episodes: 1

Pages: 6

Script: Igor Goldkind

Art: Phil Winslade

Dated: 7/7/90

Chicken Run

Issue: 49

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script: Gary Pleece

Art: Warren Pleece

Dated: 21/7/90

Straitgate

Issues: 50-53

Episodes: 4

Pages: 46

Script: John Smith

Art: Sean Phillips

Dated: Sept 90 to Dec 90

No Messin’ With Rupert

Issue: 50

Episodes: 1

Pages: 11

Script: Oscar Zarate

Art: Carlos Sampayo

Dated: Sept 90

Your Death, My Life

Issue: 50

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script and art: Milo Manara

Milo Manara

Maurilio Manara – known professionally as Milo Manara – is an Italian comic book writer and artist, best known for his erotic approach to the medium.-Career:...

Dated: Sept 90

Note: Translated by Frank Wynne.

Suddenly, Last Week…

Issue: 51

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script: Nicholas Vince

Art: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson (artist)

Paul Johnson is a British comic book artist.-Biography:Paul Johnson orbited the peripheries of the British comic book industry in the early Eighties, self-publishing and appearing in influential but short-lived publications such as Psst! and Escape Magazine...

Dated: Oct 90

The Wall

Issue: 51

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script: Tony Allen

Art: Enki Bilal

Dated: Oct 90

The Power of the Pen

Issue: 51

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script and art: Alberto Braccia

Dated: Oct 90

Note: Translated by Frank Wynne.

Prisoner of Justice

Issue: 52

Episodes: 1

Pages: 14

Script: Alan Mitchell

Art: Glenn Fabry

Dated: Nov 90

The Happiest Days

Issue: 52

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script: Martine d’Ellard

Art: Caroline Della Porta

Dated: Nov 90

Vroom

Issues: 52-58

Episodes: 7

Pages: 28

Script: Iz

Art: Dix

Dated: Nov 90 to June 91

Sinner

Viet Blues

Issues: 52-55

Episodes: 4

Pages: 38

Script and art: Carlos Sampayo and Jose Muñoz

Colours: Steve Whitaker

Dated: Nov 90 to Feb 91

Note: Translated by Deborah Bonner and Kim Thompson.

The School

Issue: 53

Episodes: 1

Pages: 6

Script: Martine d’Ellard

Art: Ed Hillyer

Dated: Dec 90

Insiders

Issues: 54-59

Episodes: 6

Pages: 60

Script: Mark Millar

Art: Paul Grist

Dated: Jan 91 to June 91

The General and the Priest

Issues: 54-55

Episodes: 2

Pages: 21

Script: Igor Goldkind

Art: Jim Baikie

Dated: Jan 91 to Feb 91

In Cages, There is No Escape

Issue: 54

Episodes: 1

Pages: 4

Script and art: Paul Johnson

Dated: Jan 91

Passing Through

Issue: 55

Episodes: 1

Pages: 4

Script and art: Miguelanxo Prado

Miguelanxo Prado

Miguelanxo Prado is a Spanish comic book creator. He was born in A Coruña, Galicia in 1958.-Biography:Prado studied architecture, wrote novels and painted before his career in comics....

Dated: Feb 91

Note: Translated by Frank Wynne.

The Real Robin Hood

Issues: 56-61

Episodes: 6

Pages: 48

Script: Michael Cook

Art: Gary Erskine

Gary Erskine

Gary Erskine is a Scottish comic book artist born in Paisley, near Glasgow in 1968.-Biography:Erskine started drawing work for fanzines while at art college and aspired to be a comic book artist. After sending samples of his work to Marvel UK he was eventually given Knights of Pendragon to draw on...

and Bernie Jaye

Dated: March 91 to Aug 91

Bible John

Bible John-A Forensic Meditation

Bible John - A Forensic Meditation was a story written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Daniel Vallely which appeared in the anthology title Crisis #56-61 in 1991.-Publishing history:...

Issues: 56-61

Episodes: 6

Pages: 48

Script: Grant Morrison

Art: Daniel Vallely

Dated: March 91 to Aug 91

Happenstance and Kismet

Issues: 56-61

Episodes: 6

Pages: 34

Script: Paul Neary

Paul Neary

Paul Neary is a British comic book artist, writer and editor.His first work was for Warren Publishing in the 1970s before working with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK as well as work for 2000 AD...

Art: Steve Parkhouse

Steve Parkhouse

Steve Parkhouse is a writer, artist and letterer who has worked for many British comics, especially 2000 AD and Doctor Who Magazine.-Biography:...

and Bernie Jaye

Dated: March 91 to Aug 91

Dare

Dan Dare

Issue: 56

Episodes: 1

Pages: 10

Script: Grant Morrison

Art: Rian Hughes

Rian Hughes

Dated: March 91

Note: Final episode of series "Dare" from Revolver.

Up on the Roof

Issue: 57

Episodes: 1

Pages: 6

Script and art: Dave Hine

Dated: April 91

Lovebite

Issue: 58

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script: Steve Tanner

Art: Pete Venters

Dated: May 91

Rainbow Cafe

Issue: 58

Episodes: 1

Pages: 3

Script and art: Simon Harrison

Dated: May 91

Lord Jim

Issue: 59

Episodes: 1

Pages: 16

Script: Igor Goldkind

Art: Steve Sampson

Dated: June 91

Trip to Tulum

Issues: 60-63

Episodes: 4

Pages: 69

Script: Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

Art: Milo Manara

Dated: July 91 to Oct 91

Note: Translated by Stefano Gaudiano.

Unlikely Stories, Mostly

Endgame

Issue: 60

Episodes: 1

Pages: 3

Script and art: Miguelanxo Prado

Dated: July 91

Light Me

Issue: 61

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script: Garth Ennis

Art: Phil Winslade

Dated: Aug 91

Worms

Issue: 62

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script and art: Dave Hine

Dated: Sept 91

Waddle on the Wild Side

Issue: 62

Episodes: 1

Pages: 5

Script and art: Al Davison

Dated: Sept 91

Charlie Lives With Fang and Snuggles

Issue: 62

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script: Garth Ennis

Art: Ian Oldham

Dated: Sept 91

Body Snatchers

Issue: 62

Episodes: 1

Pages: 7

Script: Ian Abinett & Alan Coweill

Art: Andrew Currie

Dated: Sept 91

Strange Hotel

Issue: 62

Episodes: 1

Pages: 4

Script: Si Spencer

Art: Adrian Dungworthy

Dated: Sept 91

The Big Voice

Issue: 63

Episodes: 1

Pages: 8

Script: Nick Abadzis

Nick Abadzis

Nick Abadzis is a British cartoonist, comic book writer, and graphic novelist. He currently lives in New York, having moved from his previous home in London in 2010.-Early life:...

Art: Edmund Perryman

Dated: Oct 91

Operation Massacre

Issue: 63

Episodes: 1

Pages: 15

Script and art: F & G Solano Lopez

Dated: Oct 91

Commuter’s Journey

Issue: 63

Episodes: 1

Pages: 2

Script and art: Nick Abadzis

Dated: Oct 91

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