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It was 1976, and Johnny Cash was in trouble. Once the golden-voiced king of country music, the end of the ‘60s had not been kind to the former superstar. Changing tastes and sliding record sales had led to the cancellation of The Johnny Cash Show in 1971, and an ongoing struggle with drug addiction put…

Comic books have always been a political medium. As early as the 1960s, Marvel’s X-Men series provoked questions as to whether social outcasts and those different from ourselves are worthy of participating in a society with equal rights and privileges. Like a lot of art, the politics surrounding comic books are primarily left-wing, strongly influenced…

Thanks to his family, we’re absolutely delighted to serialise the late Barrie Tomlinson’s fascinating account of his incredible career as a comic editor and writer – a fitting tribute to the man who helped shape so much of Roy of the Rovers history, brought us New EAGLE, and so very much more.