Action Before the Ban HC Vol 01 the Archival Collection

(W) Pat Mills, John Wagner, Gerry Finley-Day. Steve McManus, Kelvin Gosnell, Tom Tully (A) Barry Mitchell, Mike Dorey, Ramon Sola, Horacio Lalia, Massimo Belardinelli (CA) Don Lawrence, Geoff Campion CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF BRITAIN'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL COMIC! Violent, gritty and unrelenting, Action comic was the brainchild of Pat Mills and Geoff Kemp. Tasked with creating a new anthology comic for the IPC's boys adventure division, the pair rapidly developed a winning formula: reimagining existing story ideas from fresh perspectives and infusing them with a healthy dose of modern realism. With strips such as Hookjaw, Dredger, Look Out For Lefty and Blackjack, success was instantaneous but so was the criticism. Many of the press including, The London Evening Standard, The Sun and the Daily Mail were quick to denounce the comic, while Mary Whitehouse and the pressure group, Delegates Opposing Violent Education, piled pressure on the IPC board to do something about it. In less than a year, Action was pulled from circulation, then returned months later, a sanitised, pale shadow of it