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Preview: The Scream! Specials Archival Collection – Rebellion to Publish a Second ‘Scream!’ Volume in Time for Halloween 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 28, 2025

Last year the first collection of the cult favourite horror comic Scream! was something of a pre-order phenomenon, selling out so quickly that the book had to go back to…

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Battle Action Force Treasury Edition Vol. 1 – The ’80s Cult Favourite Makes a Return Courtesy of Total Toy Books and the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2025

The licensing complexities and how behind-the-scenes wranglings continued to affect the Action Force feature in weekly UK comic Battle Action Force make for as interesting a read as the strips…

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The Trigan Empire Returns – Classic UK Comic Strip to Begin New Adventures for the First Time in 40 Years Courtesy of Rebellion, Michael Carroll and Tom Foster

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 2025

This you may not have seen coming! Rebellion have announced the return of The Trigan Empire – the beautifully illustrated classic science fantasy strip from the pages of Look &…

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Treasury of British Comics to Reprint the ’40 Years of Scream!’ Collection of the Cult 1980s Horror Weekly

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 7, 2024

Welcome news indeed from the direction of Rebellion today if you missed out on the 40 Years of Scream! collection of the cult ’80s horror comic earlier this year which…

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Robot Archie and the Time Machine – The Cult British Comics Character Gets a Welcome Collection from the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2024

One of the most recognisable of the 1960s line-up of IPC heroes – in part because of his memorable later appearances in Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s Zenith series –…

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Rebellion Announces the Return of the ‘2000 AD Annual’ for 2025 (Plus a New ‘Treasury of British Comics Annual’ Too!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 17, 2024

This press release kind of speaks for itself! The 2000 AD Annual is back in all its hardcover glory for 2025, alongside the Treasury of British Comics one that sold…

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From the Pages of ‘Battle Action Force’ Comes the Latest Treasury of British Comics Reprint Series – ‘Action Force’ Collections Beginning Soon

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 15, 2024

More exciting Treasury of British Comics news today as Rebellion announce the return to print of one of a licensed property of yesteryear. Look out for reprints of Action Force…

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Misty: 45 Years of Fear, the Essential Collection – The Treasury of British Comics Celebrates a British Cult Classic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 12, 2023

It scarcely needs mentioning that of all of the Treasury of British Comics’ many collections over the last several years few were as eagerly anticipated or have had such a…

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Preview: Smash! #1 – The Spider, Robot Archie, Jane Bond, Janus Stark and More Star in this New Rebellion Miniseries

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 5, 2023

Well this is certainly an exciting development! Thematically following on from their The Vigilant series from a few years back Rebellion will be bringing together a whole host of classic…

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Roy of the Rovers: The Best of the 1980s: Who Shot Roy Race? – A Classic British Comics Storyline Revisited Courtesy of the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 15, 2023

For a certain generation of Roy of the Rovers fans there’s one era of the popular football strip (US readers may hereon mentally insert “soccer” into each reference to football…

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A Spell of Trouble – The Treasury of British Comics Presents Two Beautifully Illustrated Supernatural Stories by Trini Tinturé

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2023

It seems almost inconceivable that both of the strips collected in the recent Treasury of British Comics collection of classic 1970s/1980s comics for girls are missing writer credits. But such…

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Rebellion Revive an Old UK Comics Tradition with the Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 31, 2023

For those of us of… a certain age… today’s announcement of an old-school hardback-style Treasury of British Comics Annual for 2024 will bring back nostalgic memories of Christmas stocking stuffers…

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The Leopard from Lime Street Vol. 3 – Billy Farmer Returns in this Third Volume of Classic Strips from the 1970s

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2023

Given how heavily it drew from the Lee-Ditko era of Amazing Spider-Man, the status of The Leopard from Lime Street as one of the more celebrated strips of the 1970s…

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A Very British Affair: The Best of Classic Romance Comics – David Roach Curates a Glorious Collection of Forgotten Gems Via the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2023

To describe the Treasury of British Comics’ A Very British Affair: The Best of Classic Romance Comics as a labour of love seems like an understatement that borders on gross…

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Rebellion to Publish ‘A Very British Affair: The Best of Classic Romance Comics’, Curated by David Roach, in Early 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 24, 2022

If you’re a classic comics aficionado and you see the name “Shirley Bellwood” in a list of creator credits for a new collection you are instantly going to want to…

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The Complete Johnny Future – A Rare 1960s British Foray into Super-Hero Territory Collected by the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 30, 2021

Not all archival comics collections need to be showcases for the best of what the medium can offer in terms of originality and technique. Some can exist solely for nostalgic…

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Rebellion Announce Treasury of British Comics Releases for 2022 – Includes Leo Baxendale’s ‘Badtime Bedtime Stories’, ‘House of Dolmann’, and More ‘Trigan Empire’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 15, 2021

Perusing the release schedule for the next year’s Treasury of British Comics reprints is beginning to feel like something of a welcome festive tradition now! Rebellion have sent us the…

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The Thirteenth Floor Vol. 2 and 3 – Mad Max, the Tower Block A.I. with a Vengeful Personality, Returns in the Final Collections of this Classic Brit Horror Comic Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2021

Of all the Treasury of British Comics reprint collections to have emerged since publisher Rebellion gained ownership of decades of classic UK comics characters a few years back, few have…

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