The reason for this site is pretty obvious. If you're visiting it, then you probably spent some part of 1976 reading the finest, most ground-breaking, thought provoking and violent boys comic ever to grace a British newsagent's shelves. Either that, or you're one of the new generation of Action readers who've been dragged in by its cult status. Action gave no quarter in its graphic depiction of desperate anti-heroes struggling to survive whatever trials and tribulations awaited them, week in, week out, in handy three page doses.

This site attempts to provide an overview of the 36 unadulterated issues printed during Action's first, best run. Search for Action on the net and there are no other sites dedicated to this unholy terror. A sad reflection on how something so important to the history of British comics was so mercilessly destroyed by 'the powers that be', leaving it as little more than an embarrassing memory to IPC Magazines, who gave us Action in its raw form, then duly lobotomised it before finally casting it aside.

The site contains a guide to each issue and to the stories and characters. It details the writers and artists, and the features of the first run. There's interview material, the covers, lost artwork and such. There's a message board for former and new readers to discuss the comic or anything else they feel like. There's a detailed work on the history of the comic, the reason for the public outcry, the ban, the neutering of the comic and the heartless, brain-dead, lumbering ogre that rose from its ashes.

Why? Well, like most committed readers of Action, I feel it had a big influence on my formative years. Call it an obsession if you will, but Action was important to me as I was growing up. I still have every issue, some 30 years later. Action got me into comics and I never grew out of them. When it went to the chopping block, I felt like I'd lost a friend, who was then replaced by a retarded impostor. The fact that the comic has become such a sought after cult item in recent years only re-affirms its impact on, and standing in, British comics history.