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Issue: Warrior #5
Publication Date: September 1982
 
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Indicia Publisher: Quality Communications Limited
On Sale Date: 1982
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.50 GBP
$2.00 USD
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Content Items: 16 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Pray the Future Will Never Need... For Vendetta

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Subject Matter
science fiction
V
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Movie Poster Magazines

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Movie poster mags — each one in full colour throughout, featuring eight fact and photo-packed pages of information on the film plus a giant (almost 2ft × 3ft) full-colour poster.
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Ad for posters and info magazines from Quality Communications. Inside front cover.
Contents

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Includes a small illustration of The Kid Marvelman.
Dragons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
MarvelMan [Mike Moran]; Liz Moran; Kid MarvelMan [Johnny Bates]; Stephanie (death)
Once upon a time there were three heroes.
Mike has to become Marvelman again to stop Johnny from killing Liz. But Johnny has become more powerful and easily defeats Marvelman.
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FlagMiracleman #2 published October 1985
as Dragons [Book One, Chapter 5] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMiracleman #2 [Alan Davis color variant] published March 2014
as Dragons [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[Book One] Chapter Five - Versions

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Adam Susan; V; Prothero; Lewis
December 12th, 1997. First version:
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FlagV for Vendetta #2 published October 1988
as [Book 1: Europe After the Reign] Chapter Five: Versions [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagV for Vendetta #[nn] [First Printing] published June 1990
as Versions (Book I, Chapter 5) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagV jak vendetta #1 published October 2003
as Rozdział piąty - Versions [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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All Change

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Being an update on foul-ups and coming ups by he-who-carries-the-can, Dez Skinn
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Editorial explaining why the hype for recent issues did not always match the actual contents. Contains finished artwork from Twilight World and The Bojeffries Saga, and pencils from Marvelman.
HoH Collector's Item Back Issues

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Promo for House of Hammer's back issues.
The Empire of Sin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Jaramsheela; Angorfarax; Shandor
There are celebrations this night in the palace of Jaramsheela the Demoness...
Jaramsheela presents the head of Shandor to Angorfarax but he is not pleased.
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Ads

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Advertisements for comic book shops "The Edge of Forever", "Forever People", "Fantasy & Comics Explosion", and "The Comic Book Shop".
The Chrono-Cycle (TM) Mark I

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A curious triumvirate drops down a crack between
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The Drowning Woman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
Caed; the Drowning Woman; Bethbara
Caed has left his young companion, Bethbara... and has come to the edge of the Perilous Forest...
Caed disregards the many warnings and is drawn into the spell of the Drowning Woman. Only Bethbara's tears saves him.
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FlagComic Spiegel #3 published May 1983
as Der Spiralpfad [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Spiral Path #1 published July 1986
as The Spiral Path [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[untitled]

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Includes letters from Lew Stringer, and Steve MacManus (Editor of rival publication, 2000 A.D.)
If reader reaction is any indication of a magazine's potential, it looks like we're here to stay!
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Letters from Ben Crozier, Michael Cook, Martin Shipp, Lew Stringer, Robin Webb, John Clifford (two times), Patrick Mark Kane, Steve MacManus, Guy Lawley, Gary Element, Eric MacKenzie, John Culbard, Terence Larkin, Jon Dugdale, Christopher Sutherland, Graeme Bassett, John Mannering, and Michael S. Oliver. Illustration previewing next story.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Zirk; Donthax; Lemanya; Axel Pressbutton; Laser Eraser [Mysta Mystralis]
Wanted for mass murder
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FlagAxel Pressbutton #2 published December 1984
as Wanted for Mass Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[Book One - Interlude] Vertigo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Ryan; V; Colin; John (death)
It is Britain, 1998. The mills of justice grind slowly and they grind exceeding small...
V gives John a taste of his own medicine.
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FlagV for Vendetta #7 published January 1989
as Vertigo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagV for Vendetta #[nn] [First Printing] published June 1990
as Vertigo (Interlude) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagV jak vendetta #2 published November 2003
as Vertigo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Quality Mail Sale

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Promo for Quality Communications. Last page inside back cover.
[untitled]

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Marvelman; Madman; Big Ben; Laser Eraser & Pressbutton; Warpsmith; Spiral Path; V For Vendetta
Three stations from Charing Cross
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Back cover. Ad for Quality Comics comic store.

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