"It's Bannion! What - ? He's blown up!"

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Anyone remember Action? A bit before my time, but it was quite a vicious, grim comic, totally unlike any other British boy's comic of the time (late 70's). There was a tabloid outcry and it was banned by many newsagents, resulting in it being relaunched in a cleaned-up format which of course led to it folding when readers deserted it in droves. Interestingly 2000AD was originally meant to be a follow-up to Action and was launched by one of Action's creators...

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I was one of those soft kids for whom Action was a bit too much.

sadly, I thought this was going to be a thread about UNION JACK JACKSON, whose best pal was O'Bannion,

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 26 March 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I was two when these issues came out, and I read and enjoyed the later, inferior Action. I really loved Hook Jaw, actually. It appealed to the part of me that was up for the shark in the Jaws movies..

Great website though...

― David Nolan (David N.), Sunday, 28 March 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I was 9 when these issues came out, and I used to love it, especially Dredger. If I had a 9 year old child now, I probably wouldn't let them anywhere near this stuff. Hurrah for casual 70's style parenting.
Action once gave away a board game over four weeks. It was called 'Magnum Force'. You chose to be one of four special agents (MI6, CIA, KGB, or Gestapo), and chased and shot at your opponents over the board which represented a city, presumably Berlin. If you got 6 wounds you were dead, but if you could get to a hospital in time, you were back in the game. Because of this rule the games used to go on for hours, and in fact the best way to kill someone was to have 2 or 3 of you temporarily unite to gang up on one of the other players.
The television & tabloid controversies never reached our part of Ireland, so my parents' peace of mind was undisturbed. I never even knew it had been banned until years later.
I'm going to spend a lot of time on this website.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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