Forty years ago this week, young readers were eagerly anticipating the latest issue of their favourite British comic, Action. Kids, especially boys, were lapping it up, and that was the problem: Action was too popular and too violent. “Action was a very important comic,” says launch editor Pat Mills. According to Mills, it was the story Kids Rule OK! “I feel a great sense of loss for Action,” says Mills, who launched 2000AD for IPC a year later.

Source: The Guardian October 21, 2016 12:01 UTC