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Issue: Charley's War #1
Publication Date: November 2004
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Issues: #1 of 10 Issues
Title: 2 June - 1 August 1916
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagTitan
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 120
ISBN: 18402362729781840236279
UPC/EAN: 9781840236279
Price: $24.95 CAD
$19.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 45 (29 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: No editing credit in the book. John Freeman credit comes from Wikipedia and Freeman's blog. Dave Hunt is the original editor who solicited the strip, per John Freeman he remained the editor of Battle through approximately September 1979, which would include all the stories in this volume. Lettering was originally "machine lettering" per Freeman; to my eye all the lettering in this volume appears uniform enough that I assume all these episodes were machine lettered. Original printing isn't numbered; 3rd printing has a "I" on spine; unknown whether 2nd printing is numbered.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 9 in. x 12 in.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected editions
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Genres: war
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Disclose Notes: Dust jacket. Cover photo used by permission of the Imperial War Museum, London. Poppy artwork (c) 2004 Trucie Henderson.
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Lambs to the Slaughter

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Charley's War

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Disclose Notes: Title page and verso; verso has copyright notices, publication and printing information and acknowledgements
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Introduction

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Synopsis: Mills reflects on the success of Charley's War and why it spawned no imitators.
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In Content Item: FlagLa Grande Guerre de Charlie #1 published October 2011
as Introduction [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Into Battle: A Chronology of Charley's War

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Synopsis: Publication history of the original strips
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In Content Item: FlagLa Grande Guerre de Charlie #1 published October 2011
as Charley's War : Histoire d'une BD historique [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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The Story of a Soldier in World War One

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Genres: war
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #200 published January 1979
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: June 2nd 1916, France (framing sequence), plus flashbacks to Charley's enlistment in England, May 1916
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First Line: Sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne has joined the Army under-age and has reached France....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #13 January 1979 [201] published January 1979
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Disclose Notes: The Ritz; June 9th 1916
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First Line: ... Sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne goes to rescue a runner who has been blown out of the trenches....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #20 January 1979 [202] published January 1979
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Disclose Notes: June 9th, 1916.
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Genres: war
First Line: ... Sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne tries to rescue a runner blown 'over the top'....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #27 January 1979 [203] published January 1979
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First Line: ... Sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne goes out on a night raid--led by Lt. Thomas....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #3 February 1979 [204] published February 1979
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First Line: ... Sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne goes out on a night raid.... Now he has come face to face with the German sniper....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #10 February 1979 [205] published February 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... British troops move up to the front, while vast ammo dumps are prepared....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #17 February 1979 [206] published February 1979
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Disclose Notes: June 16th, 1916; prelude to Battle of the Somme
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Genres: war
First Line: ... Charley Bourne is on sentry duty when he finds his fellow sentry...is about to wound himself....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #24 February 1979 [207] published February 1979
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Disclose Notes: June 16th, 1916
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Genres: war
First Line: ... Charley Bourne stops veteran soldier - 'Lucky' - from shooting himself....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #3 March 1979 [208] published March 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... The British guns open up and shell the German line for seven days.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #10 March 1979 [209] published March 1979
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Disclose Notes: June 24th, 1916; Battle of the Somme begins
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First Line: ... One of the blackest days in the history of the British Army is about to begin.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #17 March 1979 [210] published March 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... The British infantry have been attacking for less than half an hour, and already thousands are dead.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #24 March 1979 [211] published March 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... The biggest and most savage battle ever fought by the British army in one day--is under way.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #31 March 1979 [212] published March 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: The longest day of World War One has begun....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #7 April 1979 [213] published April 1979
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Disclose Notes: July 1st 1916; Battle of the Somme
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First Line: It is the 'glorious first of July' 1916....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #14 April 1979 [214] published April 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... Charley Bourne and his comrades are fighting in a fortified village....
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #21 April 1979 [215] published April 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... After heavy fighting Charley Bourne and his comrades have been pulled out of the front line.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #28 April 1979 [216] published April 1979
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First Line: ... 'Lonely', one of Charley Bourne's comrades, is hiding a terrible un-named secret.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #5 May 1979 [217] published May 1979
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Disclose Notes: July 14th 1916; Battle of the Somme
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First Line: .... Charley Bourne and his mates, 'Ginger' and 'Lonely' have been captured by the Germans.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #12 May 1979 [218] published May 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: .... Charley, 'Ginger', and 'Lonely' have been captured by the Germans.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #19 May 1979 [219] published May 1979
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Disclose Notes: July 14th 1916; Battle of the Somme
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Genres: war
First Line: .... Charley Bourne, with his friends, "Ginger" and "Lonely", are in the hands of a German who is intent on revenging himself...
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #26 May 1979 [220] published May 1979
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Pages: 3.5
Disclose Notes: July 14th 1916; Battle of the Somme
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Genres: war
First Line: .... The British bombard the German lines with poison gas shells.
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #2 June 1979 [221] published June 1979
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Disclose Notes: July 14th 1916; Battle of the Somme
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Genres: war
First Line: .... The huge night assault of July 14 has begun...
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #9 June 1979 [222] published June 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: .... The British storm the German trenches...
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #16 June 1979 [223] published June 1979
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Disclose Notes: July 14th 1916; Battle of the Somme
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Genres: war
First Line: ... Young Charley Bourne has suffered the agonies of being gassed...
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #23 June 1979 [224] published June 1979
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Disclose Notes: July 14th 1916; Battle of the Somme
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Genres: war
First Line: ... The British cavalry advance into enemy territory...
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #30 June 1979 [225] published June 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... The British cavalry advance--towards a German ambush!
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #7 July 1979 [226] published July 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... The British cavalry attack and, in the ensuing action...
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #14 July 1979 [227] published July 1979
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Genres: war
First Line: ... After the failure of the British cavalry to break through...
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From Issue: FlagBattle Action #21 July 1979 [228] published July 1979
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Strip Commentary

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Synopsis: commentary by Mills on each of the strips reprinted in this collection, with isolated panels and pages reprinted from the stories.
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In Content Item: FlagLa Grande Guerre de Charlie #1 published October 2011
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The Battle of the Somme: Putting Charley's War in Context

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Synopsis: Essay on the Battle of the Somme, with photographs.
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In Content Item: FlagLa Grande Guerre de Charlie #1 published October 2011
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Charley's War: 1 August 1916 - 17 October 1916

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Disclose Notes: inside back dust jacket flap; creator bios of Mills and Colquhoun
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Disclose Notes: back cover; pull quotes for this book

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