Warrior

Publisher: Quality Communications

Format: Monthly anthology magazine

First Issue: Warrior #1 (March 1982)

Last Issue: Warrior #26 (February 1985)

Annuals and Specials: Marvelman Special; Warrior Spring Special 1996 (presented as a flip book with Comics International#67);
  n.b. the issue cover titled as Warrior Summer Special 1982 was actually just Warrior#4

Strips: A True Story?, Big Ben, The Black Currant, Bogey, The Bojeffries Saga, Demon at the Gates of Dawn, Ektryn, Father Shandor, Golden Amazon, Home is the Sailor, Jaramsheela, Judgement, Laser Eraser and Pressbutton, The Legend of Prester John, The Liberators, Madman, The Many Worlds of Cyril Tompkins, Chartered Accountant; Marvelman, Marvelman Family, The Shroud, The Spiral Path, Stir Crazy, The Twilight World, Van Helsing's Terror Tales, V for Vendetta, Warpsmith, Young Marvelman, Zee-Zee's Terror Zone, Zirk

Superhuman Characters

Marvelman

Kid Marvelman

Young Marvelman

Marvelwoman

Winter

Big Ben

Warpsmiths

Axel Pressbutton

Laser Eraser

V for Vendetta





Shandor, Demon Stalker





Comments: The brainchild of Dez Skinn, formerly Marvel U.K. editor, Warrior Magazine saw the bringing together of much of Britain's brightest young talent of the time (Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, David Lloyd, etc), producing creator owned strips. Issues arose when Marvel Comics took umbrage at the character Marvelman (even though he actually pre-dated Marvel Comics proper), and a threat of legal action took him from the title mid-story - the loss of what was arguably the magazine's most popular strip left Warrior weakened, and shortly afterwards it folded. A number of the strips within subsequently saw reprint and completion in American titles, both under Quality's U.S.-style imprint, and by companies such as Eclipse (Marvelman, now retitled Miracleman to avoid the legal problems) and D.C. (V for Vendetta)


Marvelman by Alan Moore and Gary Leach.


The Spiral Path by Steve Parkhouse.


A True Story? by Steve Moore and Dave Gibbons.


The Legend of Prester John by Steve Moore and John Bolton.


V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.


Father Shandor by Steve Moore and John Bolton.


Laser Eraser and Pressbutton by Pedro Henry and Steve Dillon.


The Madman by Paul Neary.


Zirk by Pedro Henry and Brian Bolland.


The Golden Amazon by David Lloyd.


Van Helsing's Terror Tales by Steve Moore and Dave Gibbons.


Stir Crazy by Hunt Emerson.


Warpsmith by Alan Moore and Gary Leach.


The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse.


Young Marvelman by Alan Moore and John Ridgway.


The Shroud, the Spire and the Stars by Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway.


The Twilight World by Steve Moore and Jim Baikie.


Ektryn by Pedro Henry and Cam Kennedy.


Marvelman Family by Alan Moore and John Ridgway.


Jaramsheela by Steve Moore, Pedro Henry and David Jackson.


Home is the Sailor by Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway.


The Demon at the Gates of Dawn by Steve Parkhouse.


Zee-Zee's Terror Zone was ..


Big Ben by Dez Skinn and William Simpson appeared in Warrior#18 through 26, plus Warrior Spring Special 1997. Having debuted in Marvelman, Ben had always been intended to be spun off into his own series, but this became more imperative for Warrior when Marvelman's continuation in the magazine became problematic thanks to Marvel Comics' legal threats.


Judgement by Alan Booth, Angus McKie and David Jackson.


Liberators by Dez Skinn and John Ridgway debuted in Warrior#22, then returned in Warrior#26, this time written by Grant Morrison. The first installment of a two part prequel tale, this latter story was reprinted and concluded in the Warrior Spring Special 1996 that was published in Comics International#67. Set in 2470 on an Earth invaded by aliens known as the Metamorphs, the title characters were a team of human resistance fighters, including Shanni, who appeared on the cover of #22.


Bogey by Antonio Segura and Leopoldo Sánchez appeared in Warrior#22, 23 and 26. A reprint of a Spanish strip translated by editor Dez Skinn, Bogey was a detective in 2080 A.D. whose adventures had originally appeared in the self-published Bogey: Adios muñeca! & El hombre que floreció in 1981. Bogey was his nickname, though he liked it sufficiently to have it engraved on his office doors. In Warrior his real name was Bacall (presumably his surname), but in the Spanish originals he was Bogey Nicolson. After his initial collection, Bogey's stories had continued in the magazine Cimoc; the Bogey strips in Warrior had originally been published in Cimoc#9 (Warrior#22), #16 (Warrior#23) and #17 (Warrior#26).


The Many Worlds of Cyril Tompkins, Chartered Accountant by Carlos Trillo and Horacio Altuna appeared in Warrior#25 and 26. It was a reprint of the Argentinian strip Las Puertitas del Signor Lopez (The Little Doors of Mister Lopez) which had originally debuted in El Péndulo # 1 in September 1979 - to be clear, that's where the series had started, not necessarily where the specific installments that appeared in Warrior had first been published. Lopez/Tompkins was a mild-mannered accountant who could traverse between realities via regular doors; in the two stories in Warrior, these were doors to toilets, but with only the two examples to go from I'm not sure if that was the only type of doors he could use as portals to other worlds.

   The image of Tompkins/Lopez to the right is a panel from Warrior#25's story, but taken from the cover of one of the collected Spanish volumes, where it had been coloured.


Carl Critchlow's The Black Currant was a four page strip that only appeared in Warrior#26. The titular character, a heavily armored barbarian warrior, had previously appeared in Critchlow's self-published comic Dead 'Ard, and would return in his Thrud strip in White Dwarf Magazine.

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First Posted: 11/11/202x
Last updated: 11/11/202x

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