Copyright REBELLION |
Here you are, peeps - part two of our superb TORNADO cover gallery, IPC's weekly comic from 1979 that only lasted for a mere 22 issues before being merged into 2000 A.D. The only strips to carry over into the combined comic were The MIND Of WOLFIE SMITH, BLACKHAWK, and one-page humour strip CAPTAIN KLEP. My favourite strip was VICTOR DRAGO, based very much on SEXTON BLAKE, but the artwork was nicely atmospheric. Did you have a favourite character in this short-lived comic, readers? Then tell all in the comments section.
The ed slipped up here - it's 'baloney', not 'boloney' |
'Special news inside for all our readers!' was Tornado's version of the classic 'Great news inside, chums!' line |
And below is an ad from another IPC comic, heralding the forthcoming release of the first issue of Tornado in 1979.
4 comments:
Hey Kid maybe my sense of humour was off it's just that cover at the top looks like that louie theroux fella!
Terence
Aha, so that was you, was it? I didn't publish your previous comment, T, because you hadn't 'signed' it and I don't publish comments without a name. (Can't stand Louie Theroux by the way.)
I've still got every issue in a bag somewhere, minus the pages which made a giant poster of soldiers through the ages.
There was some lovely Bellardineli art in there, if I recall, as well as some silliness by Kevin ONeil.
Wonder if anyone won the writing competitions in the end.
Must've done, surely. It'd be illegal for a publisher to hold a contest and then not award the prize to someone. Unless there were no entries of course.
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