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Issue: Action Force #23
Publication Date: August 1987
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Issues: #23 of 50 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel UK
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Ltd.
On Sale Date: 08/02/1987
Volume: none
Pages: 24
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 CAD
£0.32 GBP
$1.00 USD
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Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour
Dimensions: 8.25 inches x 11 inches (21 cm x 27.9 cm)
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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1 Content Item from another Issue reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagMaster of Kung Fu #30 published July 1975 was A Gulf of Lions [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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He's Mad!

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Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Cobra
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: On the inside front cover.
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Ancient Relics!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Mission Control
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Gas Masque!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Action Force [Flint; Alpine; Quick Kick; Heavy Metal]; Cobra [Tony Lander; Destro]
First Line: As far as we can tell, it was about 2:30 A.M.
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The Mountain! Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Action Force [Hawk; Duke; Snake-Eyes; Scarlett; Clutch; Spirit Iron Knife; Airborne; Grunt; Blowtorch (first appearance); Recondo (first appearance); Ripcord (first appearance); Lady Jaye (first appearance)]; The Soft Master; Billy; Cobra [Cobra Commander; Storm Shadow; Destro; Baroness; Major Bludd; Dreadnoks [Zartan (leader); Torch; Buzzer; Ripper]; Firefly; Crimson Guard [Fred Broca I (death); Fred Broca II (first appearance, end cameo)]]
First Line: Elsewhere... We've been in the wind for hundreds of miles, Zartan!
Synopsis: The Soft Master intervenes on the mountain and helps Snake-Eyes and Company ward off Destro, Firefly, and Fred I's attack. The Baroness and Bludd continue to plot to kill Cobra Commander, using Billy as the assassin, as he returns to Springfield alongside the Dreadnoks and Storm Shadow. New Action Force members enter the Pit to replace some members, as Fred I is replaced by Fred II after Fred I's death in the Sierras.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Flint
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Disclose Notes: Letters from John W. Learn, Shannon Smith, Howard Browning and G. E. Smith.
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The Crystal Connection! Part Five [A Gulf of Lions]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, martial arts
Character(s): Shang Chi; Black Jack Tarr; Clive Reston; Sir Denis Nayland Smith; Doctor Petrie; Carlton Velcro; Razor-Fist
First Line: -- so I was a little barmy to think I could destroy your whole mountain of heroin...
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Codename: Combat Colin
Character(s): Combat Colin; Semi-Automatic Steve
First Line: I've trained myself fully in the martial arts!
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Disclose Notes: On the inside back cover.

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