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Action Force was a range of 10cm action figures based on Action Man, first produced in 1982 by Palitoy Ltd. By 1985 Palitoy had stopped producing original figures, and were repackaging the equivalent G.I. Joe figures under the Action Force name. In 1990 the name was dropped in favour of using the G.I. Joe name, after a brief period as G.I. Joe - The Action Force. This was partly due to the line no longer making enough to justify the effort of rebranding. ...more on Wikipedia about "Action Force"

Captain Air-Strip One is a fictional character, from a comic book in an alternate version of the Marvel universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Captain Airstrip-One"

Captain Albion is a fictional character, from a comic book in an alternate version of the Marvel universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Captain Albion"

Captain Britain (Brian Braddock), also briefly known as Britannic, is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Captain Britain"

Captain Scotland is a Marvel Comics character from the world of Captain Britain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Captain Scotland"

Captain Wales was the Welsh equivalent of Captain Britain, and a member of the Captain Britain Corps. ...more on Wikipedia about "Captain Wales"

Chevalier Bretagne is a Marvel Comics character from the world of Captain Britain, as well as a member of the Captain Britain Corps. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chevalier Bretagne" Please visit again www.shortopedia.com

Death's Head is the name of a cyborg bounty hunter created by Simon Furman and artist Geoff Senior for the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics. Originally he was planned to star in his own series, but was shelved. A little later, Furman decided to use Death's Head in his UK Transformers stories, and so the character was unleashed, first in a one-page strip ("High Noon Tex") that ran in many comics to confirm Marvel's ownership of the character (if he had appeared in the Transformers comics first, Hasbro would have owned him), and then in the Transformers comic itself. ...more on Wikipedia about "Death's Head"

Dez Skinn is a British comic book and magazine editor born in Yorkshire in 1951. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dez Skinn"

Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a periodical devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The current editor of the magazine is Clayton Hickman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Doctor Who Magazine"

Frantic Magazine is a comic book series published by Marvel UK from 1979 to 1980. The title was a thinly disguised copy of Mad Magazine.It was part of Dez Skinn's revamp of the company and is notable for containing the first published work of Alan Davis, as well as early scripts by Alan Moore. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frantic Magazine"

Hulk Weekly was a Marvel UK title published under the editorship of Dez Skinn starting in 1979.Unlike most titles published by the company at the time, Hulk Weekly featured new material produced by British creators such as Steve Dillon, David Lloyd and Steve Parkhouse. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hulk Weekly"

Jasper's Warp, also known as Crooked World, was a Marvel UK storyline featuring primarily the character Captain Britain. It was published originally in Marvel Superheroes, #387-388, The Daredevils, #1-11 and The Mighty World Of Marvel, volume 2, #7-13. A trade paperback was released in 2002. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jasper's Warp (Captain Britain)"

The Knights of Pendragon was the name of a superhero team published by the Marvel Comics imprint Marvel UK in a self-titled comic from 1990 to 1993, and in the anthology title Overkill. It was written by Dan Abnett and John Tomlinson with art by Gary Erskine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Knights of Pendragon"

Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US produced stories for the British weekly comic market. Though it later did produce original material by British creators such as Alan Moore, John Wagner, Dave Gibbons, Steve Dillon and Grant Morrison. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marvel UK"

Mys-Tech were a shadowy Faustian organisation who acted as the main villains in a range of, initially successful but shortlived comics, launched in the US by Marvel UK in the 1990s. Some of theses stories also were published in anthology form in the UK in the Marvel UK comic Overkill. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mys-Tech"

Night-Raven was a character created by Dez Skinn and Richard Burton and assigned to Steve Parkhouse as writer and David Lloyd for Hulk Weekly, a Marvel UK title in 1979. Skinn's immediate superior, Stan Lee, did not like Lloyd's "blocky" work and so John Bolton became replacement artist twoards the end of the strip's initial run. ...more on Wikipedia about "Night Raven"

Panini Comics is a comic book publisher that publishes comic books in Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom. Panini publishes manga in several non-English-speaking countries through the Planet Manga imprint. ...more on Wikipedia about "Panini Comics"

Sir Braddock is a fictional character, from a comic book in the Marvel universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sir Braddock"

Starburst is a British science fiction magazine published every four weeks by Visual Imagination. ...more on Wikipedia about "Starburst (magazine)"

The Daredevils was a Marvel UK title from 1983 featuring reprints of Frank Miller's Daredevil work, as well as new Captain Britain work by Alan Moore and Alan Davis. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Daredevils"

The Mighty World Of Marvel ( commonly shortened to MWOM ) was Marvel UK's first ever title published in 1972. Starting out publishing reprints of Marvel's existing characters including Spider-Man, The Hulk and the Fantastic Four, it proved to be a great success and Marvel gained a foothold in the ( at the time ) vast UK weekly comic market. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Mighty World Of Marvel"

The comic depicts a futuristic Earth rife with extraterrestrials, pollution, crime and corruption. The focus of the stories are El' Ape and Deadbeat Sleeze, two private eye brothers, who ply their trade in the seedy underbelly of New York City. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Sleeze Brothers"

The Spectacular Spider-Man is the name of several comic book and one magazine series starring Marvel Comics' Spider-Man. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Spectacular Spider-Man"

There have been three main publishers of comic book series called Transformers, based on the toylines of the same name. The first series was produced by Marvel Comics from 1984 to 1991, ran for 80 issues, and also had four spin-off series. This was followed by a second volume, entitled "Transformers: Generation Two", which ran for 12 issues starting in 1993. The second major series was produced by Dreamwave Productions from 2002 to 2004 with multiple limited series as well, and within multiple story continuities, until the company went bankrupt in 2005. The third series will be produced by IDW Publishing starting in 2006. ...more on Wikipedia about "Transformers (comic)"

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