Charley's War Volumes #1 - #10

A sequential run of 'Charley's War' volumes 1 to 10 in excellent condition.

Charley's War was British comic strip written by Pat Mills and drawn by Joe Colquhoun. It was originally published in Battle Picture Weekly from January 1979 to October 1985. These nine volumes are fantastic hardcover anthologies published by Titan Books.

Charley's War tells the story of an underage British soldier called Charley Bourne. Charley joins the British Army during World War I at the age of 16 and is quickly thrust into the Battle of the Somme. The strip follows Charley's life in the trenches and his experiences during the war. The strip followed Charley through to the end of the war and through into the invasion of Russia in 1919. However in January 1985, Mills quit the strip before being able to complete the story (he intended the story to end in 1933, with Charley on the dole as Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany) due to a dispute over his research budget.

Colquhoun put a meticulous level of research in to the already well-researched scripts which Mills provided. The strip rarely flinched from providing an extremely frank portrayal of the horrors of war, so much so that in some later reprintings some of the artwork was censored. Mills added a political slant in the strip not seen in British war comics and avoided the standard heroics common in war comics generally.

Featuring:

Volume 1: 2 June – 1 August 1916
Volume 2: 1 August - 17 October 1916
Volume 3: 17 October 1916 - 21 February 1917
Volume 4: Blue's Story
Volume 5: Return to the Front
Volume 6: Underground and Over the Top
Volume 7: The Great Mutiny
Volume 8: Hitler's Youth
Volume 9: Death from Above
Volume 10: The End.

Author: Pat Mills
Artist: Joe Colquhoun
Publisher: Titan Books, 2004 - 2012
Format: Hard Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9" x 12" (230mm x 300mm)
Condition: VF - Very Fine
Code: CHARLEYSWAR01