Violent, gritty and unrelenting, Action comic was the brainchild of Pat Mills and Geoff Kemp. Tasked with creating a new anthology comic for the IPC’s boys adventure division, the pair rapidly developed a winning formula: reimagining existing story ideas from fresh perspectives and infusing them with a health dose of modern realism. With strips such as Hookjaw, Dredger, Look Out For Lefty and Blackjack, success was instantaneous but so was the criticism. Many of the press including, The London Evening Standard, The Sun and the Daily Mail were quick to denounce the comic, while Mary Whitehouse and the pressure group “Delegates Opposing Violent Education” piled pressure on the IPC board to do something about it.
In less than a year, Action had been pulled from circulation, then returned months later, a sanitised, pale shadow of its former self. But the spark had already been lit. Action had made its mark and became the catalyst for the evolution of the British comics scene, paving the way for 2000 AD and the British invasion of UK talent into America.
Now, for the first time in decades, Rebellion are collecting Action in a series of new archival editions, containing all of the strips and some of the editorial that created so much infamy back in the 1970s!
The celebration of Britain’s most anarchic comic continues in this second explosive volume of Action, which collects issues 13 through to 24. From the skull-cracking secret agent, Dredger, to the mankind-hating Hook Jaw, its easy to see why Action captivated a whole generation of kids.
This volume includes the dramatic conclusion of The Running Man, and the start of two new thrilling strips; Hell’s Highway and the brutal, future sport tale, Death Game 1999.
Out in April 2027 and available in standard and webshop-exclusive editions, Action: Before The Ban defies the censors and proudly celebrates a landmark series in British comics history!
And now, this week's releases...
2000AD Prog 2503Cover: Stewart K. Moore.
JUDGE DREDD // THE NEW FUTURE by Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt (w) Henry Flint (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
AZIMUTH // HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DAGON by Dan Abnett (w) Tazio Bettin (a) Matt Soffe (c) Rob Steen (l)
DURHAM RED // HUNGRY CITY by Alec Worley (w) Ben Willsher (a) Simon Bowland (l)
GHOSTED // BOOK TWO by Guy Adams (w) Megan Huang (a) Simon Bowland (l)
HERNE & SHUCK // STORMING THE STONE by David Barnett (w) Lee Milmore (a) Quinton Winter (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Thistlebone: The Complete Collection by TC Eglington & Simon Davis
Rebellion
978-183786862-9, 7 October 2026, 208pp, £29.99.
Available via Amazon.
BRITAIN, 2019.
The secluded rural village of Harrowvale holds a dark past: years earlier, on a farm bordering the woods, a cult—led by the charismatic Jasper Hillman—sought to escape civilisation and find purity in the old ways, namely worshipping an ancient deity called Thistlebone. The cult’s pagan beliefs grew so deranged that they kidnapped a young girl, Avril Eason, with the intention of sacrificing her. But Avril escaped… and now, so many years later, she returns to Harrowvale to face the demons of her past.
Haunting and visceral, the Complete Thistlebone collects volumes 1-3 of the acclaimed folk horror series by T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis.
Rogue Trooper: The Complete Collection Volume 4 by Steve Dillon, Simon Geller, John Smith, Mark Millar, John Tomlinson, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, Gerry Finley-Day, Andy Diggle, Guy Adams (w) Steve Dillon, Chris Weston, Kev Walker, Brett Ewins, Jim McCarthy, David Hill, Dave Gibbons, Staz Johnson, David Roach, Dylan Teague, Simon Coleby, Mike Collins, PJ Holden, Rich Elson, Steve Pugh, Colin Wilson, Darren Douglas, Lee Carter, Jimmy Broxton (a
Rebellion
978-183786619-9, 7 October 2026, 352pp, £24.99.
Available via Amazon.
Rogue Trooper's adventures across Nu Earth continue as he is tasked with wiping out an army of religious fanatics, fights for survival in the ruthless gambling settlement of Cinnabar, combats an underwater threat while attempting to cross the Khoisin reservoir... and more!
This volume collects the work of comics superstars Mark Millar (
Civil War,
Kingsman), Dave Gibbons (
Watchmen) and Steve Dillon (
Preacher,
The Punisher) alongside
2000 AD veterans Gerry Finley-Day, Brett Ewins, and Gordon Rennie.
Judge Dredd: Nordland Rising by Ken Niemand, Peter Milligan, Dan Abnett, Ian Edginton, Gordon Rennie, Arthur Wyatt (w) John McCrea, Cam Smith, Simon Coleby, Jake Lynch, Neil Edwards, Anthony Williams, Clint Langley, Dan Cornwell, Nick Dyer, Tom Foster, Nick Percival (a)
Rebellion
978-183786852-0, 7 October 2026, 112pp, £19.99.
Available via Amazon.
THE INTERDIMENSIONAL INVASION HAS BEGUN!
Thanks to advances in Nort technology, War Marshal Josef Jaegir has used the black hole around which Nu Earth orbits as a means of invading other universes. Reaching out to Sov War Marshal Kazan, he’s joined forces with East-Meg One to subjugate Mega-City One, and in other realities the Norts have allied themselves with the alien Krool, the Geeks,the Volgans and the Nazis. It’s a war on all fronts, with Jaegir demanding nothing less than total victory.
Can Judge Dredd and a team of mighty multiversal warriors including, Rogue Trooper, Major Eazy and Bad Company, overcome this overwhelming alliance of evil?
