Hook Jaw: Archive

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Hellman of Hammer Force" took the old staple of World War II but followed an Axis protagonist in the form of fiercely principled tank commander Major Kurt Hellman. Updated 28th July 2016, new imagery added): Comics news site Multiversity Comics has delivered the news that Hook Jaw– the giant killer shark first brought to life in the pages of 1970s comic Action by Pat Mills, Ken Armstrong and Ramon Sola– is back, thanks to Titan Comics. Having survived the fiasco on McNally's Rig, Rick Mason found employment on the island of El Salvados, which was owned by the wealth Doctor Gelder.

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Presumably buoyed by the success of their excellent Johnny Red mini series by Garth Ennis and Keith Burns, a character also owned by Egmont Publishing, TItan says their new five-issue Hook Jaw book, written by Si Spurrier and drawn by the hugely talented Conor Boyle, will launch in December. Though obscure, Action played an important role in the development of British Comics; it was the first multi-themed "boy's stories" comic (prior to Action, all "boy's stories" comics would focus on one theme - war or sports, for example), and it proved that there was a market for boy's adventure stories outside of the classical moulds. His henchmen dealt out beatings and threw men to their deaths in the shark infested waters of his lagoon. Joe Taggart is forced to become the coach for a new team of Karson City Killers — in fact, he goes through several teams as members keep getting killed off. Meanwhile, over-enthusiastic usage of explosives by hunters trying to kill Hook Jaw opens up a volcanic rift beneath the island and chaos ensues.

Initially his greed causes the deaths of divers and riggers, but as the story progresses we discover McNally isn’t averse to a spot of murder to get his way.

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Created by Pat Mills and Geoff Kemp, the strip largely happened from Hook Jaw's point of view, portraying the shark as a creature simply following its' instincts and forever under attack from amoral humans. The traditionalist Sid Bicknell, a former Valiant editor, took over and Sanders was tasked by the board with approving every single page. Sure, there was the merchandising and the three theatrical sequels, each of diminishing quality, but even removing these things from the equation the simple fact remains that the original Jaws ranks right alongside of Star Warsin terms of telling a captivating story that engaged the public’s imagination during an otherwise bleak era in which something that was pure entertainment could provide everyone with common ground and offer a brief respite from troubled times. Others have suggested it has no function, and observed the kype seems to prevent the use of the breeding teeth which sometimes develop alongside the kype. A full version of the story, with a text insert to cover the missing episodes, can be found in Action – The Story of a Violent Comic.After the censorship, the story was retooled as being much closer in mood and theme to the common football comics of the time. Star Jaws” was also the name of a wondrous issue of the old Spidey Super Stories comic in which Doctor Doom named a Death Star-type planet muncher just that). STRIP Magazine re-published a number of early HookJaw adventures, re-mastered by Jim Campbell, coloured by Gary Caldwell. Pat Mills decided that the shark should be the nominal hero of the strip, and that greedy and immoral humans were the villains.

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Under the force of the storm, the oil rig began to fall apart and the rig workers and plane survivors fell into the ocean and into the waiting mouth of Hook Jaw. Like the staff, the board was distinctly traditionalist and many held personal views closer to those of Whitehouse than of Action's creators and readers. The seas off the coast of Africa are the setting for an action-packed, visceral tale of the Great White shark that is a relentless force of nature!Many of the IPC staff, particularly the boys' adventure division, had greatly resented being bypassed for Battle and then Action, but strong sales had prevented them from protesting.

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Instead spent my time either enjoying seeing them get turned into shark food - or wishing that they would. In spring 2020 Rebellion published an Action Special 2020 under its Treasury of British Comics imprint. For what it’s worth, this is actually a Star Wars cash-in, although we guess it has “Jaws” in the title to reel in anyone who was still stuck on the previous blockbuster back in 77.Bamber Gascoigne, Nicholas Parsons, Russell Harty, The Bay City Rollers, Malcolm Allison and Tony Blackburn were among those honoured. Still, the original work remains a compelling read all these years later, and is highly recommended to anyone who only has seen Spielberg’s take on the source material. In 1991 the pre-ban episodes of "Hook Jaw" and a selection of the unedited the unpublished episodes were included in Martin Barker's Action - The Story of a Violent Comic, published by Titan Books.