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Books about the dark pop culture of the 70s & 80s. linktr.ee/scarredforlife Podcast: pod.link/1706291698
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I've just stumbled across the glorious BUSTER'S GHOST (1992-93) from Roy of the Rovers; a cross between Billy's Boots and American Werewolf in London, a young footballer is haunted and (occasionally possessed) by the decomposing ghost of his cousin...

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Happy 45th birthday, ! My dad bought Prog 1 for me when I was 6 (and snuck a read of Dan Dare for himself). It was love at first sight: you gave me the best characters ever, introduced me to satire, informed my politics, and you're STILL the Galaxy's Greatest!

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6. Comics, books, the paranormal...they've all got moments worthy of a Short Sharp Shock. And there'll be plenty in Volume Three!

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8. And finally, a bedtime story with a difference. We look at Judith Vigna's storybook for little 'uns, designed to soothe their anxieties about impending doom, 'Nobody Wants A Nuclear War'.

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6. In 1982/2104, the unthinkable happened to Mega City One: Sov nukes destroyed half the city, killing 400 million citizens. 'The Apocalypse War' would change Judge Dredd, and comics, forever, with the effects still being felt today. And to my 11 year old self, it was terrifying.

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3. And there was another Protect and Survive. A monthly survivalist magazine with hints and tips (and occasional DIY features) on how to survive the unthinkable. A CoE vicar wrote to the mag, suggesting 'our current taboo against cannibalism may disappear'. Needs must etc.

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11. To this day I wonder how this slipped through the editorial cracks: one of the strangest Marvel team-ups ever, as the X-Men, at the height of their popularity, came up against the disgusting, revolting, cigar-chomping weirdness of Obnoxio the Clown!

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9. DC's Piranha imprint produced the dreamlike Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, gorgeously illustrated story books about drunken clowns on the rampage, a week in the life of a dead couple, a man born in an electric chair, and other oddities. We dig up this long-forgotten gem.

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8. Meanwhile, DC were quietly producing some of the best, most experimental comics in the mainstream. Del Close and John Ostrander's 'Wasteland' was The Twilight Zone by way of David Lynch and Troma Films. It's a psychedelic chocolate box of horrors, and we take a closer look...

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