When I first saw this comic, I didn't realize Hookjaw had been around since the 70s. I just thought it looked like a cool Jaws inspired book. Pat Mills, "The Sevenpenny Nightmare!", Judge Dredd Megazine List of Action stories#379 (17 January 2017)

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In 2017, Rebellion licensed the rights to "Hook Jaw" to Titan Comics, who produced a five-part mini-series written by Simon Spurrier and drawn by Conor Boyle. Spurrier was a fan of the original strip, noting "it was disguised as something rather lowbrow... but it concealed some very smart and subversive twists". The Titan series rebooted the story and was set in the present day, with an oceanographer Mag as the sympathetic lead human protagonist. Titan also published a collected edition of the Action strips to tie in with the series. [15] [16] When Mason and Sharkie reported the find to Doctor Gelder, Gelder was unconvinced, stating that the entire island was surrounded by a protective reef that would prevent anything larger than a sardine from swimming through. Unknown to anyone, the island lagoon had been intruded by Hook Jaw during the high tide at the full moon. Now in the midst of hundreds of tourists, Hook Jaw's bloodbath continued. Hook Jaw was the jewel in Action’s crown, consistently voted the most popular story in the readers’ poll. The ignominious ending dealt out in the final issue was unworthy of the leviathan of the deep, but Hook Jaw truly ceased to be on the day the ban came into place. Everything that followed was a travesty of that which had gone before. Plot Summary Green's Grudge War: In a World War II commando unit, a story of jealousy and vendetta is played out between the envious Jimmy Green and the blithely unaware John Bold, ending at last when Green's attempt to get Bold killed by the Germans ends with him being shot. Regarded as disappointingly formulaic and repetitive.a b c d e f g Witten, P.E.; Hall, B.K. (2003). "Seasonal changes in the lower jaw skeleton in male Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): remodelling and regression of the kype after spawning". Journal of Anatomy. 203 (5): 435–450. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2003.00239.x. PMC 1571185. PMID 14635799.

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It's best to read these one at a time, as they were designed to be read on a weekly basis. Doing that you can see, with the first two stories, how well they work, as things escalate across them. Though obscure, Action played an important role in the development of British Comics; it was the first multi-themed "boy's stories" comic (prior to Action, all "boy's stories" comics would focus on one theme - war or sports, for example), and it proved that there was a market for boy's adventure stories outside of the classical moulds. IPC and Pat Mills would go on to create the successful 2000 AD comics. Many of the early 2000 AD stories have a very strong resemblance to the moods and attitudes of Action stories, and the stories Flesh and Shako in particular have a strong resemblance to Hook Jaw.Groot C and Margolis L (1991) Pacific salmon life histories. UBC Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-7748-0359-5.

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The Coffin Sub: A short-lived "straight from the mould" story about a British submarine fighting in the Mediterranean. Considered dull and loathed by publishers and readers alike.The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. After the ban, the art was taken on by John Stokes, and was much improved. Stokes had a very clean style, although his early issues heavily referenced Sola’s work. His other Action work included three episodes of “ Death Game 1999” and some “ Dredger” stories. New Battle Action Series Featuring Garth Ennis and More Announced by Rebellion (Exclusive)". Comics. Much has been made of 'Hookjaw's environmental agenda, but I think this is stretching a point really. It's true the first strip does feature a villainous oil rig owner who cares nothing for how much he pollutes, but this is more by way of giving us a bad guy to jeer at. By the second adventure the green agenda is much less clear, by the third story it has disappeared completely and the villains are merely robbers. Almost immediately Action's violence began to attract attention from the press. On 23 February 1976, The London Evening Standard ran an article on the comic, criticising its bloodletting. More sustained criticism came from The Sun, which dissected Action on 30 April 1976. As author Martin Baker has noted, the article itself was relatively balanced but the headline - "The Sevenpenny Nightmare", in reference to the notorious Victorian penny dreadfuls - set the tone for a campaign against the title's immorality. [3] However, the excellent sales led to the creative staff being egged on in some cases. [2]