Misty issue 1, 1978
Misty was a comic published by IPC from 1978 to 1980.
The comic was conceived as a competitor to Spellbound although it did not go on sale until a month after that title had merged into Debbie.[1] Pat Mills served as associate editor,[2] and shaped it into what could broadly be described as a girl-targeted 2000 AD, replacing science ficton with supernatural horror.
The comic's title character was a supernatural hostess described by Graham Kibble-White as "an escapee from a Roman Polanski nightmare".[3]
In 1980 Misty was taken over by Tammy. In 1981 Tammy took over Jinty, and its Misty component was dropped.[4] Pat Mills has blamed this ignominious end on the comic jumping the shark and ending up with "too many stupid adventure stories with colourful visuals".[5]
In 2006 the fan-run website Mistycomic.co.uk published a 25th anniversery special,[6] titled Mistycomic.co.uk for copyright reasons.[7] A second special followed in 2009;[8] the same year Egmont published a one-off special reprinting old material.[9]
Features[]
Amongst the strips that ran in Misty were...
- Beasts (first appeared 1978)
- The Black Widow
- The Sentinels (first appeared in 1978)
- The Cult of the Cat (first appeared 1978)
- The Nine Lives of Nicola (sequel to The Cult of the Cat)
- The Four Faces of Eve
- Journey into Fear
- Midnight Masquerader
- Moodstone (first appeared 1978)
- Moonchild (first appeared 1978)
- My Friend George
- Nightmare (first appeared 1978)
- Paint it Black (first appeared 1978)
- Winner Loses All
References[]
- ↑ Kibble-White, Graham (2005). Ultimate Book of British Comics. London: Alison & Busby. p.170. ISBN 0-74908-211-9
- ↑ Kibble-White, Graham (2005). Ultimate Book of British Comics. London: Alison & Busby. p.170. ISBN 0-74908-211-9
- ↑ Kibble-White, Graham (2005). Ultimate Book of British Comics. London: Alison & Busby. p.170. ISBN 0-74908-211-9
- ↑ Kibble-White, Graham (2005). Ultimate Book of British Comics. London: Alison & Busby. p.172. ISBN 0-74908-211-9
- ↑ Kibble-White, Graham (2005). Ultimate Book of British Comics. London: Alison & Busby. p.172. ISBN 0-74908-211-9
- ↑ http://mistycomic.co.uk/Mistycomic_Special_2006.html
- ↑ Interview with John Armstrong, Mistycomic.co.uk 2009 special
- ↑ http://mistycomic.co.uk/Mistycomic_Special_2009.html
- ↑ http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/egmont-misty-comic-special-content.html
