British Update: Infamously, UK Scream!
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: This short-lived horror anthology, with stories and art by top British talent, (including Alan Moore in the first issue) showed great promise, but was sadly stifled by a combination of a barrage of parental complaints about the violence, and a printer’s strike which threatened to stop the presses for several weeks. After issue # 15, and without so much as even the traditional “Great News, Chums!”, Scream vanished, and two of its most popular strips, ‘Monster’ and ‘ The 13th Floor’ (about a homicidal computerised elevator dispensing harsh justice in a tower block – no, really) continued into the second iteration of Eagle. We have an almost complete run new in, lacking only the final issue, averaging Fine, as well as the 1985 Holiday Special in VG/FN.