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By Charles EP Murphy Power Rangers is a franchise that has lasted for almost thirty years: a team of youths transforming into...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles EP Murphy As we’ve seen, the fate of comics – who makes them, what shape they take, where they sell – is subject to random...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles EP Murphy In our discussion on girls’ comics – indeed, in anyone’s discussion of British girls’ comics – the gothic horror...

By Charles EP Murphy Girls comics once dominated the UK market for almost three decades – and then died, for various reasons both unique...

By Charles EP Murphy The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part Two Girls comics, as discussed in the previous article,...

By Charles EP Murphy In the beginning, there were just “comics”. Then, from the 1950s onwards, British publishers decided girls might buy...

By Charles EP Murphy Last time, we looked at the chaotic history of the Archie Comics superheroes. The early days as pioneering Golden...

By Charles EP Murphy Comic history is littered with short-lived runs and characters that, due to capturing a fan-turned-pro’s imagination...

By Charles EP Murphy Jenny Sparks, electric spirit of the 20th century; Jack Hawksmoor, engineered to command cities; the Engineer,...

By Charles EP Murphy Scream! was that increasingly rare thing, a new British comic made in the 1980s with no licensed property to hang...

By Charles EP Murphy Running from 1937 to 2012, DC Thomson’s The Dandy is still one of the longest-running comics on the Earth. For every...

By Charles EP Murphy The Avengers and Justice League go to war! Wonder Woman wields the hammer of Thor! Peter Parker tries to go on a...

By Charles EP Murphy Sonic the Hedgehog is all about two things – going fast and franchising. And in the first decade or so of Sonic’s...

By Charles EP Murphy Judge Dredd is the Law. A faceless, implacable force, he is never seen without his helmet – there’s no display of...

By Charles EP Murphy Imagine if a successful video game company bought a successful, well-loved comic company. Imagine the possibilities...

By Charles EP Murphy Renga! All-Brit Action In Yer Face! Renga! Demons and motorbikes and violence! Renga! From the company that...

By Charles EP Murphy You’re Alan Moore, you’ve just finished Watchmen, you’ve just shattered the entire superhero genre. What do you do...

By Charles EP Murphy The year is 1961 and comics are about to change forever. Fantastic Four #1 is out, birthing the Marvel Age of Comics...