tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post2975685816983776794..comments2024-03-22T05:36:02.491-07:00Comments on Sunday Comics Debt: Charley’s WarDeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-2365793518206277102015-07-21T05:26:08.172-07:002015-07-21T05:26:08.172-07:00I read these comics as a boy and have always been ...I read these comics as a boy and have always been griped by the story.<br />I have an almost complete run from the battle comics it was printed in originally and the eagle comics it was latter re-printed in.<br />A few things with what you have put above though<br />.<br />1) the Battle comic was not well known for its heroic gung-ho war stories it was at the time quite the opposite Charley's War and Johnny Red both big stories in this comic are anything but. And some of the other stories ran in this comic where very dark violent and very anti-war. Pat Mills came to Battle from the short lived Action comic which with it's dark and violent and anti-establishment story's got the comic ban for 2 months and told to make drastic changes before the ban was lifted.The more heroic comics of the time where Warlord and Victor.<br /><br />2) your character list is short one of the biggest characters. Where is Ginger?<br />Ginger was Charlies best mate through the Somme and is in the best part of two books. His death is part of Charlies spiral from fresh face youth to war weary tommy.<br /><br />3)It wasn't a lack of funding that stopped Pat carrying on the story into the second world war it was more that he had come to an end with his part of the story and at that time he was heavily involved with stories else where in other comics. The story was carried on into the second world war in much the same vain up to Dunkirk. This part of the story came to an abrupt end as Joe Colquhoun died.<br />The story was then turned in to a re-telling of charlies world war I story and the story was started again in the comic.<br /><br />I am not sure of where you are based or if you where around at the time of its first printing but me being a young boy at the time in a small Leicestershire town in the heart of Briton we where fully aware of the class system at work in world war I with its hunting parties and Cricket matches against officers and men. At the time I remember being shocked though at the singing and shouting between both side of the trenches.<br />Charley's War is a modern masterpiece that will sadly be never seen again as the UK comic book industry has now since long disappeared with only 2000AD being produced. I would love to see one of the America Indy comic company's pick it up and re-print it in a monthly comic but sadly this may never happen and it is a great shame. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579017147875092280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-91685124817685535382012-09-28T01:27:25.952-07:002012-09-28T01:27:25.952-07:00I grew up with these comics, and really enjoyed th...I grew up with these comics, and really enjoyed them, so much so that I wouldn't mind seeing them reprinted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-69699566282532345522010-11-11T03:32:24.573-08:002010-11-11T03:32:24.573-08:00It wasn't just the Charlies of the UK that got...It wasn't just the Charlies of the UK that got fed into the sausage grinder; the rest of the Empire also filled the trenches and graveyards. What's sometimes lost on most of us is that Newfoundland wound up being absorbed into Canada as a result of sacrificing its men and money for Britain.DreadedCandiru2https://www.blogger.com/profile/15561460498807276057noreply@blogger.com