Won the Battle Action Force Annual 1986.

[jcast]

What can I expect? It has Joes on the cover, anyone know what kind of stories are inside?

[antybots]

The Battle Action force annuals have two or three self-contained action force stories, photos of the toyline and other stories from the battle comic which are world war 2 based.

Be prepared for culture shock though. The action force characters are completely different than their GI Joe personas, the stories are more violent, and there are 'greenshirts' aplenty.

[jcast]

I know. I've read some on blood for the baron. I wasn't really familiar with the annuals though.

[antybots]

Well then it's more of the same but all the stories are self-contained and there are pictures of the toys.

[jcast]

I got it yesterday. Some really good stories. What's up with all the WWII stories? They're cool, but they seem to take the focus off of Action Force.

[The Baron]

Hey jcast, Battle comic ran from 08 March 1975 to 23 January 1988, being predominately a War comic, and was widely regarded as the sister comic to the futuristic 2000AD. The title spawned many epic titles such as Charley's War and Johnny Red, a concise history of the comic can be found here:

http://fanboy.frothersunite.com/battle.html

The Action Force stories were printed at the tail-end of their run with the majority of the Battle strip being reprints from their heyday. My BFTB torrent contains the entire collection including annuals, summer specials and rarities.

[The Baron]

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