New Episode - Barrie & James Tomlinson - Battle Action Force Interview, with bonus guest Brian Hickey

Mark & Tim talk about all things Battle Action Force with Editor Barrie Tomlinson, his son & AF writer James "Nicholas" Tomlinson, and also with Battle Action Force Treasury author Brian Hickey.

We start the episode discussing BAF history with Barrie and James, and finish up the episode with an update from Brian on the lat4est with the BAF Treasury editions.

Recorded as talking heads video with a few BAF images included.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/S3G3RlB5DLg

Or more tightly edited audio only episode

Action Force was launched in the pages of the Battle Comic in 1983, which was retitled Battle Action Force and ran until 1986 when the license moved to Marvel. After that the Action Force strip was replaced in the pages of Battle by the adventures of a new team "Storm force". The earliest Action Force stories have been collected in 3 Battle Action Force Treaury deluxe harcovers from Total Toy books/ Skeletron/ Rebellion. https://www.totaltoybooks.com

Barry Tomlinson, was Group Editor at IPC, and British boys comics legend, his work incledes;

Lion, Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, Top Soccer, 2000AD, Battle, Speed, The New Eagle, Scream, Mask, Super Naturals, Wildcat, Hot-Shot, Ring Raiders, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Adventures, Toxic Crusaders, The Big Daddy Annuals, The Geoff Boycott Annual, The Suzie Dando Annual, Johnny Cougar’s Wrestling Monthly, Scorer, one-off specials, magazines, World Cup poster magazines, sports quiz books, greetings cards, Ladybird books

James Tomlinson AKA James Nicholas (aka P Rudge) was one of the most prolific Action Force strip writers for Battle, writing c 30 stories, and going on to have writing career across boys comics, licenensed comics, and newspaper stips, including; Eagle, Battle, Scream! Ring Raiders, MASK, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

Battle Action force strips by James included:

Codename Stakeout

Codename Quickfire

Tank Hunt

Sea Fury

Death Castle

Codename Kraken

Origins

Gung-Ho

The Baroness

Storm Shadow

Major Bludd

Cobra

The Great Cobra Robbery

Death in South America

Arctic Terror (P Rudge)

Venom of Cobra

Snow Job

Showdown for the Shadows!

London in Peril

The Ultimate Crime

Cobra Victory

Duke's Revenge

The Raid!

Operation Deep Cover

Sea Wars!

Battle for the Skies!

Death in the Everglades

Crisis in Space!

Battleground