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Here we are offering BOTH UFO Comic Anthology Volume One AND UFO Comic Anthology Volume Two in a bundle. Buy both now and save over £23!
This is a great way to catch up with fellow UFO fans and enjoy these great hardcover books. These volumes offer the complete collection of UFO comic strips from Countdown and TV Action. Volume One features all the colour and black & white strips from Countdown and Volume Two features all the colour and black & white strips from TV Action. Both books also include articles and interviews by comics expert Shaqui Le Vesconte, giving the reader context and fascinating insights into the strips' history, artists and UFO's life in comics.
Based on the classic television series, UFO was one of the pioneer comic strips of the 1970s. Never before reprinted or collected, relive each powerful adventure and discover the story behind its creation – and beyond – with supporting features across the two anthologies.
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Here we are offering BOTH UFO Comic Anthology Volume One AND UFO Comic Anthology Volume Two in a bundle. Buy both now and save over £23!
This is a great way to catch up with fellow UFO fans and enjoy these great hardcover books. These volumes offer the complete collection of UFO comic strips from Countdown and TV Action. Volume One features all the colour and black & white strips from Countdown and Volume Two features all the colour and black & white strips from TV Action. Both books also include articles and interviews by comics expert Shaqui Le Vesconte, giving the reader context and fascinating insights into the strips' history, artists and UFO's life in comics.
Based on the classic television series, UFO was one of the pioneer comic strips of the 1970s. Never before reprinted or collected, relive each powerful adventure and discover the story behind its creation – and beyond – with supporting features across the two anthologies.
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Very pleased good condition quick delivery
United KingdomWhen I got my books they were even better than expected. I instantly went back to 1971&I was 11 years ago again. It brilliant to see every UFO comic story together.
United KingdomVery good books with plenty of information about the production of each collection. Excellent reproduction of the original comic strip.
United KingdomExcellent, just what I expected and nice to have all of the UFO comic strips from Countdown & TV Action all in two volumes and in good quality paper. Next it would be nice if you could continue publishing the other Gerry Anderson comic strips from these titles and also TV21. Also, it would be particularly nice if you could reprint your Stingray book.
United KingdomI was delighted to receive my two volumes of the UFO Comic Anthology at the discounted price for the set. In the 1960s and 70s, I was an avid reader of TV Century 21 and later Countdown, although I was late in discovering the existence of the latter! My two favourite strips were the eponymous Countdown (please could we have an anthology of this strip? The artwork was fabulous) and of course UFO. I loved some of the better artists' skill in capturing true likenesses of Straker, Foster and Freeman. I also appreciated catching up on my missed instalments of the UFO strip "The Forcefield" when I was unable to get hold of that week's edition of Countdown! I had high hopes that the comic would develop the idea of the larger vehicles the aliens were bringing, to build their base on Mars. But this proved to be a one-off idea. My favourites were the full-colour plate stories, although there are many more black and white or duotone tales, some of them complete stories in one episode. Some of these strips have appeared in previous anthologies, for example "Too old at 32" is a great story which appeared in the "Menace from Space" collection of TV 21 stories. When I compared the two, I noticed that the earlier anthology was printed on a more shiny paper, which was more like the comic and allowed the colours to shine. However, the current anthologies are beautifully bound, on high GSM paper and I was surprised by the weighty heft of the two books together! In addition to the strips, there are a lot of background articles about the comics, the artists, and other adaptations (including the Italian releases of the same strips). Some of this was fascinating, for example, the fact that the artists had to work on the strips before much had been produced by way of references for the vehicles and their capabilities. One thing which now makes me smile is the way they tried to make sense of Sky1, which is an impossible aircraft at the best of times. They had Sky1 firing a missile out of its front scoop air intake, rather than from the wing missile pods. But this is understandable, since in the TV show, the jet engines seem to be at the back of the missile pods, and there's no way that the front scoop air intake could connect through to those engines. So I guess the artists thought that the missile pods were air intakes! Apart from that, the drag produced by Sky1's totally un-aerodynamic aft aspect (where it joins with Skydiver) would surely have prohibited supersonic flight! It makes me wish that this show could have a modern reboot, with updated vehicles and a properly developing story-arc, similar to Babylon 5. Anyhow, this collection is a fabulous dose of nostalgia, and I recommend it to all those who grew up in the Century 21 universe of Gerry Anderson!
