Richard Starkings - The Marvel UK Action Force Years Interview - Talking Joe & Total Action Force

Audio only - This episode is fine as audio only - the images are generally only illustrative / to prompt discussion.

Youtube Video here:

https://youtu.be/StKMOjfOu-s

Richard Starkings is a British font designer and comic book letterer, editor and writer.

Rich was an editor at MarvelUK in the late 1980s. Titles he edited included Death's Head and Dragon's Claws - but most importantly the Weekly Action Force weekly comic in 1987.

By the beginning of the 1990s he devoted himself exclusively to lettering, and was one of the early pioneers of computer-based comic-book lettering, founding Comicraft in 1992.

He currently writes the ongoing creator owned comic book "Elephantmen".

Mark is joined by Paddy Lennon, writer of Total Action Force Vol. 2: International Heroes which at time of this interview is in it's final week of Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brianthehick/total-action-force-vol-2-international-heroes

For ‘Total Action Force: Volume Two’ the team are making hardcover 176 page definitive history and guidebook to the Hasbro Action Force figures and vehicles released between 1987 and 1989. In tandem with covering the toys in detail, the book will also go behind the scenes on the ‘Action Force Weekly’ comic and ‘Action Force Monthly’ (published in the USA as ‘G.I. Joe European Missions).

Links:

AF Comics on Blood for the Baron http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/comics/maf/

AF Weekly cover gallery on YoJoe https://www.yojoe.com/comics/af/

AF Monthly cover gallery on YoJoe https://www.yojoe.com/comics/afm/covergallery.shtml

AF 1987 era GI Joes on 3d Joes (USA release of 1985)

http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/toys/1987.html

Vehicles https://www.3djoes.com/1985-overview.html

Figures https://www.3djoes.com/1985-overview1.html