7/5/2023 0 Comments Grandville noel![]() ![]() Many of the characters were either morally ambivalent, or just downright bad. In UK comics, nothing was ever that simple. In the US, you had a predominance of superheroes, with the clearly identified good guys fighting the clearly identified bad guys. And the characters themselves couldn’t have been more different. ![]() During their heyday, between the fifties and the seventies, they came out weekly, were generally in black and white, and were all anthology titles, featuring several different stories in each, often with only two story-pages per issue. UK comics were always different from US comics. Albion sets out to explain why these characters disappeared, and what happened to them afterwards. In and around the mid-Seventies, most of these comics ceased publication, and their inhabitants were seen no more. From comics with names like Lion, Valiant, Smash!, and Wham! came Captain Hurricane, Robot Archie, Janus Stark, The Steel Claw, and many others. All the main characters come from old UK comics, specifically those that had been published by Fleetway/IPC. ![]() Long before it ever came out, Leah Moore and John Reppion’s Albion had a long and fascinating history behind it. ![]()
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