*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Eight of the extra-thick Summer/Holiday Specials of Battle, the picture weekly which starred, among others, Johnny Red, D-Day Dawson, The Rat Pack, and Charley’s War! The brainchild of Pat Mills, Battle’s more realistic attitude towards combat strips was such a hit that the first Summer Special launched in the same year – 1975 – of the weekly’s debut! We have that first Summer Special in FN/VF at £22.50, and subsequent Holiday Specials from 1980, 1981, 1985 (during the Battle Action Force amalgam), 1987, two in differing grades from 1988, and 1991, encompassing a huge range of the long-running series’ history. Many in attractive high grades, these weren’t commonplace at the time of release, and are increasingly hard to find as the years roll by. Pictured below: 1975, 1980, 1981.