 Here's some more of your letters mates!  | Dear Steve, I got the Action Annuals up to 1981 when I was a lad, and then gave up on it. Just recently I decided to see what I had missed and bought myself the 1982, 1983, and 1984 annuals from eBay. Oh dear, what a load of garbage. It was an insult to have the Action logo on the front of these abysmal books. I only paid a quid each for them, but even at that (plus shipping) it was a rip-off. The only true Action character in there was Dredger, and in text form, although Dave Brockman (Probationer) made a cameo in some poor story about him at school. The rest looked like old archive stories from Eagle in the 50's. So incredibly sad! On a brighter note I had my brother send me the 1977 annual from my old stock. What a difference, and to think I wasn't keen on that one back in the day, mainly due to the Aluma Arrows Death Game 1999 story. Paul |
| Steve says: Sad to say that most 70s annuals sucked as IPC had a rule about using mostly reprint from the fifties and sixties. The only decent annual was indeed the 1977 effort, which was mainly new material, and even though it suffered from a couple of bad text stories, it was still leaps ahead of everything that followed. |
| Dear Steve, Just a quick story. Took my kids to the local Wacky Warehouse (you know, the kids fun parks attached to most pubs nowadays). There I was have a nice pint reading my latest copy of Action bought from eBay. Then I noticed a group of 4 boys (aged about 10) reading my Action from their side. They asked about the comic - where to buy it etc...They couldn't believe it was over 27 years old! They thought it was great. John Halpin |
