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A list of stories published in the Fleetway Publications comic Crisis between 1989 and 1991.

Artoons

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Published: #15-24 (1 April to 5 August 1989)[1]
Artist: Brendan McCarthy[1]
  • Surreal back-page single frame cartoons.

Bible John - A Forensic Examination

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Main article: Bible John - A Forensic Meditation
Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991)[1]
Writer: Grant Morrison[1]
Artist: Daniel Vallely[1]

An examination of the Bible John killings in Glasgow.

China in Crisis 1989

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Published: #42 (14 April 1990) and #45 (26 May 1990)[1]
Writer: Tony Allen[1]
Artist: David Hine[1]

An account of the Tiananmen Square protests, and the authorities' brutal crackdown.

The Crooked Mile/Angels Amongst Us

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Published: #28-38 (30 September 1989 to 17 February 1990)[1]
Writer and Artist: Philip Bond[1]
  • Cartoons printed on the rear cover; "The Cooked Mile" was a surreal, unsettling painted one-frame image, while "Angels Amongst Us" was a four-panel strip featuring an amiable, wisecracking angel.

Dare

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Published: #56 (March 1991)[1]
Writer: Grant Morrison[1]
Artist: Rian Hughes[1]

Retired Colonel Dan Dare finds the future far than idyllic.

  • Continued from Revolver. A summary of the story to date was printed in Crisis #55.[1]

For a Few Troubles More

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Main article: For a Few Troubles More
Published: #40-43 (17 March to 28 April 1990) and #45-46 (28 May to 9 June 1990)[1]
Writer: Garth Ennis[1]
Artist: John McCrea[1]

Belfast layabout Dougie Patterson is set to marry his long-suffering, pregnant girlfriend Valerie. The only sticking point is that Dougie insists on making his even more crass friend Ivor Thompson his best man, despite the inherent contradiction in terms.

  • Sequel to "Troubled Souls". Collected in 1991 by Fleetway Publications as For a Few Troubles More.[2] Dougie and Ivor were later resurrected by Ennis and McCrea for the 1997 Caliber Comics series Dicks, where the pair made a bungled attempt to become private detectives, and have subsequently appeared in titles published by Avatar Press.[3]

The General and the Priest

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Published: #54-55 (January to February 1991)[1]
Writer: Igor Goldkind[1]
Artist: Jim Baikie[1]

A Panamanian padre receives a visitor from his dark past, a former army general on the run from the American military.

Happenstance and Kismet

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Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991)[1]
Writer: Paul Neary[1]
Artist: Steve Parkhouse[1]

The misadventures of jazz musician Monty Happenstance and translator Lucius Kismet.

Insiders

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Published: #54-59 (January to June 1991)[1]
Writer: Mark Millar[1]
Artist: Paul Grist[1]

Frank Murray begins a 12-year stint in the dehumanising jail system of Northern Ireland.

The New Adventures of Hitler

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Main article: The New Adventures of Hitler
Published: #46-49 (9 June to 21 July 1990)[1]
Writer: Grant Morrison[1]
Artist: Steve Yeowell[1]

In 1912 Liverpool, Austrian immigrant Alois and his wife Bridget reluctantly host the former's brother Adolf, a failed painter searching for the Holy Grail.

  • Originally created for publication in Cut.[5]

New Statesmen

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Main article: New Statesmen
Published: #1-14 (17 September 1988 to 18 March 1989), #28 (30 September 1989)[1]
Writer: John Smith[1]
Artists: Jim Baikie (#1-4, #9-12 and #28), Sean Phillips (#5-6 and #13-14), Duncan Fegredo (#7-8)[1]

In 2047, the 51 states of America (including England as the 51st) each possess genetically modified Optimen. Created with superhuman 'hard' and 'soft' talents, these are essentially biological weapons, and the world is in the grip of fear of genetic engineering and political warmongering.

  • Repackaged as the five-issue limited series New Statesmen for the American market in 1989,[6] and later compiled as The Complete New Statesmen by Fleetway.[7]

The Real Robin Hood

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Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991)[1]
Writer: Michael Cook[1]
Artist: Gary Erskine[1]

Unemployed artist Danny lands the role of Robin Hood at a new Nottingham theme part designed to commercialise the memory of the folk hero.

Sinner: Viet Blues

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Published: #52-55 (November 1990 to February 1991)[1]
Writer: Carlos Sampayo[1]
Artist: José Antonio Muñoz[1]

Cop turned private eye Alack Sinner gets involved in a racially-charged case in Harlem.

  • Originally printed in the 1986 Alack Sinner album "Viet Blues". Coloured for Crisis by Steve Whitaker.[1]

Sticky Fingers

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Published: #15-21 (1 April to 24 June 1989) and #23-27 (22 July to 16 September 1989)[1]
Writer: Myra Hancock[1]
Artist: David Hine[1]

Tomboyish Weeny begins flat-sharing with Holly in Camden Town while trying to escape the temptation of returning to her former life of theft.

Straitgate

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Published: #50-53 (September to December 1990)[1]
Writer: John Smith[1]
Artist/s: Sean Phillips[1]

A young homosexual man wrestles with the stigma of being gay in contemporary Britain.

  • Two pages of the story were deemed not fit for publication, and removed.[8]

Third World War

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Main article: Third World War (comics)
Published: #1-27 (17 September 1988 to 16 September 1989), #29-38 (14 October 1989 to 17 February 1990), #40-51 (17 March to October 1990), #53 (December 1990)[1]
Writers: Pat Mills (all) with Alan Mitchell (#17-21, #24-48 and #53), Malachy Coney (#22-23), Tony Skinner (#49-51)[1]
Artists: Carlos Ezquerra (#1-6, #9-14, #17-18, #20-21), D'Israeli (#7), Angela Kincaid (#8, #15; as Angie Mills), John Hicklenton (#16, #25, #29, #35, #53), Duncan Fegredo (#19, #26), Sean Phillips (#22-24, #27, #31, #33-34), Richard Piers Rayner (#30), Glyn Dillon (#32, #40-44), David Pugh(#36, #49-51), Robert Blackwell (#37, #45-48), Tim Perkins (#38)[1]

In the near future, global corporations are exploiting commercial opportunities in the developing world under the guise of FreeAid, a military security force. Eve Collins, an unemployed university graduate, is conscripted as a soldier working for FreeAid.

  • Material from Crisis #1-14 was reprinted for the American market as the 1990 limited series Third World War.[1]

Trip to Tulum

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Published: #60-63 (July to October 1991)[1]
Writer: Federico Fellini[1]
Artist: Milo Manara[1]

After falling into a pond chasing Federico Fellini's hat, a beautiful woman finds herself in a strange, magical world.

Troubled Souls

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Main article: Troubled Souls (comics)
Published: #15-27 (1 April to 16 September 1989[1]
Writer: Garth Ennis[1]
Artist: John McCrea[1]

In 1989 Belfast, protestant youth Tom Boyd finds himself unwittingly drawn into an IRA plot - and becoming friends with catholic volunteer Damian McWilliams.

True Faith

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Main article: True Faith (comics)
Published: #29-38 (14 October 1989 to 17 February 1990)[1]
Writer: Garth Ennis[1]
Artist: Warren Pleece[1]

After growing increasingly cynical about the Christians he encounters in day-to-day life, teenager Nigel Gibson becomes fascinated after a chance encounter with Terry Adair, a man who plans to kill God by using a terror campaign against organised religion to draw the deity out into the open.

Wroom

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Published: #52-58 (November 1990 to May 1991)[1]
Writer: Igor Goldkind (as IZ)[1]
Artist: Dix[1]

One-off stories

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  • To Serve and Protect
Published: #21 (24 June 1989)[1]
Writer/artist: Floyd Hughes (as Floyd R. Jones-Hughes)[1]
  • The Geek
Published: #22 (8 July 1989)[1]
Writer: Malachy Coney[1]
Artist: Jim McCarthy[1]
  • The Student Konstabel
Published: #28 (30 September 1989)[1]
Writer/artist: Phillip Swarbrick[1]
  • Her Parents
Published: #31 (11 November 1989)[1]
Writer: Mark Millar[1]
Artist: John McCrea[1]
  • The Clicking of High Heels
Published: #32 (25 November 1989)[1]
Writer: Sarah Bromley-Anderson[1]
Artist: Floyd Hughes[1]
  • Two Pretty Names
Published: #33 (9 December 1989)[1]
Writers: Si Spencer and Sue Swasey[1]
Artists: Phil Laskey and Carol Swain[1]
  • Squirrels in Carroll Street
Published: #34 (23 December 1989)[1]
Writer/artist: Floyd Hughes[1]
  • Feedback
Published: #34 (23 December 1989)[1]
Writer/artist: Al Davison[1]
  • Didn't You Love My Brother?
Published: #35 (6 January 1990)[1]
Writer: Tony Allen[1]
Artist: David Hine[1]
  • Suburban Hell
Published: #36 (20 January 1990)[1]
Writer: Garth Ennis[1]
Artist: Phillip Swarbrick[1]
  • Banged Up
Published: #37 (3 February 1990)[1]
Writer: Jack Blackburn[1]
Artist: David Lloyd[1]
  • The Death Factory
Published: #39 (3 March 1990)[1]
Writer: Pat Mills[1]
Artist: Sean Phillips[1]
  • A Kind of Madness
Published: #39 (3 March 1990)[1]
Writer: Pat Mills[1]
Artist: Sean Phillips[1]
  • A Day in the Life
Published: #39 (3 March 1990)[1]
Writer: Igor Goldkind[1]
Artist: Glenn Fabry[1]
  • Murky Waters
Published: #40 (17 March 1990)[1]
Writer: James Robinson[1]
Artist: Tony Salmons[1]
  • Brighton Gas
Published: #41 (31 March 1990)[1]
Writer: Gary Pleece[1]
Artist: Warren Pleece[1]
  • C-Rap
Published: #41 (31 March 1990)[1]
Writer: Peter Hogan[1]
Artist: Edmund Bagwell (as Anoniman)[1]
  • Passion and Fire
Published: #42 (14 April 1990)[1]
Writer: Carlos Sampayo[1]
Artist: Oscar Zárate[1]
  • Faceless
Published: #42 (14 April 1990)[1]
Writer/artist: Floyd Hughes[1]
  • The Ballad of Andrew Brown
Published: #43 (28 April 1990)[1]
Writer: Garth Ennis[1]
Artist: Phil Winslade[1]
  • Try a Little Tenderness
Published: #44 (12 May 1990)[1]
Writer: Si Spencer[1]
Artist: Steve Sampson[1]
  • Masters of Disguise
Published: #44 (12 May 1990)[1]
Writer/artist: Tomoko Rei Sato[1]
  • The Farmer and the Soldiers
Published: #44 (12 May 1990)[1]
Writer: Igor Goldkind[1]
Artists: David Lloyd and Caroline Della Porta[1]
  • Felicity
Published: #47 (23 June 1990)[1]
Writer: Chris Standley[1]
Artist: Pete Doherty[1]
  • The Soldier & the Painter
Published: #48 (7 July 1990)[1]
Writer: Igor Goldkind[1]
Artist: Phil Winslade[1]
  • Chicken Run
Published: #49 (21 July 1989)[1]
Writer: Gary Pleece[1]
Artist: Warren Pleece[1]
  • No Messin' with Rupert
Published: #50 (September 1990)[1]
Writer: Carlos Sampayo[1]
Artist: Oscar Zárate[1]
  • Your Death, My Life
Published: #50 (September 1990)[1]
Writer/artist: Milo Manara[1]
  • Suddenly, Last Week
Published: #51 (October 1990)[1]
Writer: Nicholas Vince[1]
Artist: Paul Johnson[1]
  • The Wall
Published: #51 (October 1990)[1]
Writer: Tony Allen[1]
Artist: Enki Bilal[1]
  • The Power of the Pen
Published: #51 (October 1990)[1]
Writer/artist: Alberto Breccia[1]
  • Prisoner of Justice
Published:#52 (November 1990) [1]
Writer: Alan Mitchell[1]
Artist: Glenn Fabry[1]
  • The Happiest Days
Published: #52 (November 1990)[1]
Writer: Martine d'Ellard[1]
Artist: Caroline Della Porta[1]
  • The School
Published: #53 (December 1990)[1]
Writer: Martine d'Ellard[1]
Artist: Ed Hillyer[1]
  • In Cages, There is No Escape
Published: #54 (January 1991)[1]
Writer/artist: Paul Johnson[1]
  • Passing Through
Published: #55 (February 1991[1]
Writer/artist: Miguelanxo Prado[1]
  • Lord Jim
Published: #59 (June 1991)[1]
Writer: Igor Goldkind[1]
Artist: Steve Sampson[1]
  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly: End Game
Published: #60 (July 1991)[1]
Writer/artist: Miguelanxo Prado[1]
  • Light Me
Published: #61 (August 1991)[1]
Writer: Garth Ennis[1]
Artist: Phil Winslade[1]
  • Worms
Published: #62 (September 1991)[1]
Writer/artist: David Hine[1]
  • Waddle on the Wild Side
Published: #62 (September 1991)[1]
Writer/artist: Al Davison[1]
  • Charlie Lives with Fan and Snuggles
Published: #62 (September 1991)[1]
Writer: Garth Ennis[1]
Artist: Ian Oldham[1]
  • Body Snatchers
Published: #62 (September 1991)[1]
Writers: Ian Abnett & Alan Cowsill[1]
Artist: Andrew Currie[1]
  • Strange Hotel
Published: #62 (September 1991)[1]
Writer: Si Spencer[1]
Artist: Adrian Dungworthy[1]
  • The Big Voice
Published: #63 (October 1991)[1]
Writer: Nick Abadzis[1]
Artist: Edmund Bagwell (as Edmund Perryman)[1]
  • Operation Massacre
Published: #63 (October 1991)[1]
Writer: Gabriel López[1]
Artist: Francisco Solano López[1]
  • Commuter's Journey
Published: #63 (October 1991)[1]
Writer/artist: Nick Abadzis[1]

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