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By Charles E.P. Murphy Duncan Brack and Iain Dale’s recurring collections of That Never Happened articles are some of the more...

By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...

By Charles EP Murphy By the time of 1997's Power Rangers Turbo, the show had been running for almost four years. Ratings were on the way...

By Charles EP Murphy Spanning 101 issues in the late 1970s, Misty is one of the most fondly remembered girls’ comics of its time,...

By Charles EP Murphy Superhero comics are infamous for the unchanging status quos and parts of the canon that are absolute. That means...

By Charles EP Murphy Probably the biggest character in Power Rangers history is Tommy Oliver, as played by Jason David Frank. He’s famous...

By Charles EP Murphy The initial plot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is summed up in the title sequence. The space witch Rita Repulsa is...

By Charles EP Murphy Power Rangers is a franchise that has lasted for almost thirty years: a team of youths transforming into...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles EP Murphy As we’ve seen, the fate of comics – who makes them, what shape they take, where they sell – is subject to random...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles EP Murphy In our discussion on girls’ comics – indeed, in anyone’s discussion of British girls’ comics – the gothic horror...

By Charles EP Murphy Girls comics once dominated the UK market for almost three decades – and then died, for various reasons both unique...

By Charles EP Murphy The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part Two Girls comics, as discussed in the previous article,...

By Charles EP Murphy In the beginning, there were just “comics”. Then, from the 1950s onwards, British publishers decided girls might buy...

By Charles EP Murphy Last time, we looked at the chaotic history of the Archie Comics superheroes. The early days as pioneering Golden...

By Charles EP Murphy Comic history is littered with short-lived runs and characters that, due to capturing a fan-turned-pro’s imagination...

By Charles EP Murphy Jenny Sparks, electric spirit of the 20th century; Jack Hawksmoor, engineered to command cities; the Engineer,...

By Charles EP Murphy Scream! was that increasingly rare thing, a new British comic made in the 1980s with no licensed property to hang...

By Charles EP Murphy Running from 1937 to 2012, DC Thomson’s The Dandy is still one of the longest-running comics on the Earth. For every...