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| First and foremost, my utmost thanks to Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Aberystwyth, and author of Action - The Story of a Violent Comic. Martin very generously gave me permission to reproduce sections of his work without limitation, or to put it another way "feel absolutely free to quote from the Action book in any way you want". Thank you, I have. Martin has also donated a lot of his time to provide me with the original survey material regarding Action from his 1989 book Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics. Martin's input has been invaluable to the creation of this site and I can't tip my hat to him enough. Click here to read a brief profile of his work on Action. The title of this site comes from an article about Action printed in The Sun newspaper on April 30th 1976. Also credit to those few people who have put anything at all from Action onto the internet. As I began work on this site, my own collection had only just emerged from the loft at my parents' house after more than 25 years stuck in an old box going yellow. I would be unable to include covers for the first ten issues and for the October 23rd issue without the efforts of 26pigs.com and comicsuk.co.uk. Luckily, my collection is now back in rude health, thanks to many hours spent trawling eBay for replacements. Also much thanks to Rufus Dayglo for his collection of original pages and long lost covers, and for being such a damned good egg in locating a copy of the 23rd October 1976 issue. Thanks also to IPC for not stopping me from doing this, although they may have just ignored my e-mail to them or indeed, sold on the whole Action shebang to Egmont Fleetway when they offloaded 2000AD some years ago. Finally thanks to Simon Ashford, an old friend who I have not seen in decades, who showed me the very first issue back in February of 1976, to John Pearce, another school friend who replenished my depleted collection for a small fee, and to my parents, who not only let such a thing as Action into the house every Saturday morning, but paid for it too. True, there was the whole Action burning phase in October of that year, but when I secretly replaced my whole collection and hid them, no-one looked too hard to find them. |
