Warrior
Publisher:
Quality Communications
Format: Monthly anthology magazine
First Issue: Warrior #1 (March 1982)
Last Issue: Warrior #26 (February 1985)
Annuals and Specials: Marvelman Special; Warrior
Spring Special 1996 (presented as a flip book with Comics
International#67);
n.b. the issue cover titled as Warrior Summer Special 1982 was
actually just Warrior#4
Strips: A True Story?, Big Ben, The Black Currant, Bogey, The Bojeffries Saga, Demon at the Gates of Dawn, Ektryn, Father Shandor, Golden Amazon, Home is the Sailor, Jaramsheela, Judgement, Laser Eraser and Pressbutton, The Legend of Prester John, The Liberators, Madman, The Many Worlds of Cyril Tompkins, Chartered Accountant; Marvelman, Marvelman Family, The Shroud, The Spiral Path, Stir Crazy, The Twilight World, Van Helsing's Terror Tales, V for Vendetta, Warpsmith, Young Marvelman, Zee-Zee's Terror Zone, Zirk
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Comments: The brainchild of Dez Skinn, formerly Marvel U.K. editor, Warrior Magazine saw the bringing together of much of Britain's brightest young talent of the time (Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, David Lloyd, etc), producing creator owned strips. Issues arose when Marvel Comics took umbrage at the character Marvelman (even though he actually pre-dated Marvel Comics proper), and a threat of legal action took him from the title mid-story - the loss of what was arguably the magazine's most popular strip left Warrior weakened, and shortly afterwards it folded. A number of the strips within subsequently saw reprint and completion in American titles, both under Quality's U.S.-style imprint, and by companies such as Eclipse (Marvelman, now retitled Miracleman to avoid the legal problems) and D.C. (V for Vendetta)
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V for Vendetta by
Alan Moore and David Lloyd. |
Father Shandor by
Steve Moore and John Bolton. |
Laser Eraser and Pressbutton
by Pedro Henry and Steve Dillon. |
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The image of Tompkins/Lopez to the right is a panel from Warrior#25's story, but taken from the cover of one of the collected Spanish volumes, where it had been coloured. |
Carl Critchlow's The Black
Currant was a four page strip that only appeared in
Warrior#26. The titular character, a heavily armored barbarian
warrior, had previously appeared in Critchlow's self-published
comic Dead 'Ard, and would return in his Thrud
strip in White Dwarf Magazine. |
CLARIFICATIONS:
Warrior should not be confused with:
First Posted: 11/11/202x
Last updated: 11/11/202x
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