As the cover price rose from £2.45 to £2.55, the hits kept on coming. The last annual Christmas issue numbered for the upcoming year was Prog 2015; after this, these annual issues would maintain regular numbering since it wouldn’t be much longer before an actual prog 2015 (et al) arrived....

This stretch included two nearly-synchronous landmarks; issue 300 and the 20th anniversary issue (302) with a dream team cover collaboration by two of the best 2000AD artists of the 80s: Glenn Fabry and Simon Bisley. There was another facelift with issue 275, where the price jumped from £2.99 to £4.99,...

From September 2012 to September 2014, the cover price only rose 10p (£2.35 to £2.45) and the perennial favorites kept coming back. A stealth crossover occurred when Judge Dredd found himself on the same case as characters in two other stories (all set in the same universe). ABC Warriors, Strontium...

The 15th anniversary of the Megazine kicked off a revealing multi-part historical overview that looked under rocks and behind furniture to lay bare all the untold stories of what a tumultuous ride it had been. At last, the multiple changes in format and content choices were explained, all of which...

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A little over an hour after entering the arena, a red lamp lit up in the dim waiting room. – Five minutes before the match starts — I slipped into the khaki pressure suit that was lying on the floor. I didn’t really think about it, but I was quick...

After Armored Trooper Votoms wrapped up its original TV broadcast in March 1984, fans of the show continued worldbuilding in the pages of Takara’s Dual Magazine. This became the platform for the first Votoms side story, Blue Knight Berserga. Dual ceased publication before the story could reach its conclusion, but...

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45 TV productions including Xabungle, Baxinger, Macross, Space Cobra, and Captain Harlock: Endless Road SSX. 23 feature films including Gundam III, Queen Millennia, My Youth in Arcadia, and an Ideon double feature January Animec No. 21 Animage Vol. 44 The Anime Vol. 27 Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of...

45 TV productions including Urashiman, Dunbine, Votoms, Orguss, Govarian, Cat’s Eye, Mospeada, and Vifam 19 feature films including Urusei Yatsura Only You, Crusher Joe, Harmagedon, and Final Yamato This was the year OVAs made their debut with Dallos as the first original production on the new format. January Animec No....

BELOW: this was a color proof of my first idea for the issue 3 cover (work in progress), which I drew and colored myself. I thought it would be disturbingly goofy if B-ko’s father was flying overhead with his generous package outlined (hence A-ko’s word balloon). Regrettably, I was the...

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After 12 years of experimentation with logos, formats, and page counts, the editors at Rebellion decided it was time for the Megazine to pick a standard and stick with it. They did away with the “volume” concept, which was always sort of arbitrary anyway, and probably existed only to lure...

With Prog 1700, the cover and logo format essentially locked into place with only minor adjustments between then and this writing (early 2025). The cover price went from £2.25 to £2.35 and the content went from one high point to the next with a well-balanced variety of SF, fantasy, and...

Every publisher of anime magazines branched out into book publishing during these boom years, bringing their own editorial and design style to several of the same subjects. These publishers were creating other books (Akita Shoten in particular invested heavily in film comics) and many other publishers were jumping on the...

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