British Update: Both series of Warrior
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Both series of Dez Skinn’s seminal Warrior magazine restocked this week. The first series from 1975 featured ‘heroic tales of sword and sorcery’ and was mainly reprint of classic strips from Eagle and elsewhere, including work by Burns (Wrath of the Gods, Kelpie – Boy Wizard), Lawrence (Erik the Viking, Olac the Gladiator), Bellamy (Heros the Spartan) and others, with a smattering of new material. Black and white and cheaply reproduced, this series does not turn up too regularly. A more familiar beast is its descendant from 1982, the slick glossy publication most famous for Alan Moore’s Marvelman revival and V For Vendetta, but with many other features from the cream of British creators at the time; lots new in, including scarcer later issues.