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''[[The Transformers]]'' is our main thing. But in order to be an informative and comprehensive encyclopedia, it sometimes falls to us to document content from '''other publications'''. Note that we're not obligated to cover ''every'' story printed in the following issues, or we'd be here all day.
From a wiki perspective, articles with content from other publications are marked with [[Template:ExtraTF|the ExtraTF Template]] – extra meaning "outside", like in "extraterrestrial".
==''Action Force'' (weekly)==
{{Comicinfo
|seriestitle=''Action Force''
|image=Action Force 31 cover.jpeg
|publisher=Marvel UK
|external={{Joe|Action_Force_(weekly)|''Action Force'' (weekly)}}
|first=Issue 1, 1st March 1987
|final=Issue 50, 7th February 1988}}
{{Main|Action Force (comic)|Combat Colin (comic)}}
After [[w:TI Media|IPC Magazines]] ceased its publication of ''Action Force'' stories in ''[[w:Battle Picture Weekly|Battle]]'' in November 1986, Hasbro gave the rights to Marvel UK, for them to release a weekly ''Action Force'' mag in the same vein as ''The Transformers''. This publication married UK-produced main stories with back-up material reprinting strips from Marvel U.S.'s {{Joe|G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero_(Marvel_comic_series)|''A Real American Hero''}} – of which there was a healthy supply that had been building since 1982. These reprint stories were edited for the UK market, changing all the ''G.I. Joe''s to ''Action Force''s among other edits, essentially creating a continuity out of two ongoing strips. The weekly ''Action Force'' comic was frequently promoted by ''The Transformers'', including a full-blown crossover story (of which we give partial coverage).
Another bit of ''The Transformers''{{'}}s homework copied by ''Action Force'' was its gag strip, which imported ''[[Robo-Capers]]'' cartoonist [[Lew Stringer]]. The resulting comic was ''Codename: Combat Colin'', a look into the everyday life of a yampy suburban action hero. When ''Action Force'' folded into ''The Transformers'', ''Combat Colin'' came over with it to overwhelming critical acclaim. We have chosen to cover these early ''Combat Colin'' tales <s>because of wiki editor favouritism</s> to provide a complete look at his exploits in the pages of Marvel Comics.
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{{Comicinfo
|seriestitle=''Doctor Who Magazine''
|image=Doctor Who Magazine issue 142.jpg
|publisher=Marvel UK
|external={{Tardis|Doctor_Who_Magazine|''Doctor Who Magazine''}}
|first=Issue 1, 11 October 1979
|final=Ongoing...!}}
:''"Doctor Who" redirects here. For the
In 1963, a ragtag team at the [[w:BBC|BBC]] launched ''[[w:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]''. The show centred around a mysterious character known only as [[the Doctor]], who could travel through time and space in a ship called the [[TARDIS]]. This conceit was to allow the programme to explore factual history as well as science-based speculative futures. Although aimed at a family audience, it didn't become the children’s own programme that adults adore until its fifth episode took a hard turn into a post-nuclear civil war starring the dastardly xenophobic [[Dalek]]s – and with them came the explosion in popularity that was [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/rise-dalekmania-doctor-who-craze-made-suckers-us/ Dalekmania.]
In 1979, around the time [[Fourth Doctor|Tom Baker]] and {{Tardis|Philip_Hinchcliffe|Phillip Hinchcliffe}} were making the show the most popular it had been since 1964, Marvel UK snapped up the comics licence for ''Doctor Who'', launching what was then known as ''Doctor Who Weekly''; this comic-cum-magazine was spearheaded by {{Tardis|Dez_Skinn|Dez Skinn,}} who'd been watching the show since he was 12 years old. Notable creators to have contributed to its comic strips include {{Tardis|Alan_Moore|Alan Moore,}} {{Tardis|Grant_Morrison|Grant Morrison,}} {{TF|Dave_Gibbons|Dave Gibbons,}} and {{TF|John_Ridgway|John Ridgway.}}
''Doctor Who Magazine'' holds the [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/94561-longest-running-tv-tie-in Guinness World Record for the longest running TV tie-in.] Its continuous publication outlasted not only ''Doctor Who'' itself – which disappeared from the airwaves in 1989 "on hiatus" – but also Marvel UK, which was absorbed by [[w:Panini Comics|Panini]] in 1995. ''Doctor Who Magazine'' continues to report on the world of ''Who'', including rumours that the show may someday return to television...
Back when it was a Marvel publication, the central comic strip was allowed some degree of interconnectivity with the wider Marvel universe, with crossover characters including {{Tardis|Merlin_the_Wise|Merlin the Wise,}} the {{Tardis|Special_Executive|Special Executive}}, the {{Tardis|Freefall_Warriors|Freefall Warriors,}} the {{Tardis|The_Sleeze_Brothers_(series)|Sleeze Brothers,}} and, of course, [[Death's Head]]. What's relevant to ''us'' is that the Doctor (or should that be Doctors...?) once faced the [[Gwanzulum]]s.
*Issue 141: "[[Planet of the Dead]]" Episode One
*Issue 142: "Planet of the Dead" Episode Two
We also cover [[Doctor Who Magazine (ad)]].
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==''The Real Ghostbusters''==
{{Comicinfo
|seriestitle=''The <span style="color:red">Real</span> Ghostbusters''
|image=Ghostbusters issue 9.jpeg
|publisher=Marvel UK
|external={{GB|Marvel_Comics_Ltd-_The_Real_Ghostbusters_Series|''The Real Ghostbusters''}}
|first=Issue 1, March 1988
|final=Issue 193, September 1992}}
:''"Ghostbusters" redirects here. For the
Despite being conceived as a comedy vehicle for [[w:John Belushi|John Belushi]] based on [[w:Dan Aykroyd|Dan Aykroyd]]'s paranormal spec int with a licensed title from an [[w:The Ghost Busters|unrelated production]], the 1984 movie {{GB|Ghostbusters|''Ghostbusters''}} was a cultural phenomenon. This
Debuting in 1988, Marvel UK's ''The Real Ghostbusters'' became a runaway hit, running for an unprecedented 193 issues with annuals and spin-off appearances galore. Producing the comic was a ballsy move in the early days as, unlike many of Marvel UK's other licensed titles, ''The Real Ghostbusters'' had no U.S. equivalent series to reprint as a safety net; in those early days, ''The Real Ghostbusters'' was filled with home-grown, in-house talent. This led to something of a transatlantic cultural exchange with the later {{GB|NOW_Comics-_The_Real_Ghostbusters_Series|NOW Comics ''The Real Ghostbusters'' series,}} as each publication began to reprint the other's material.
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*Issue 9: "[[Too Many Ghostbusters!]]"
*Issue 20: [[Gwanzulum]]s Fact File
We also cover [[The Real Ghostbusters (ad)]].
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{{Comicinfo
|seriestitle=''ThunderCats''
|image=ThunderCats issue 107.jpg
|publisher=Marvel UK
|external=[https://www.thundercatsfans.org/tcmemorabilia/marvelcomics ThunderCatsFans.org]
|first=Issue 1, March 1987
|final=Issue 129, December 1990}}
:''"ThunderCats" redirects here. For the eponymous cat people, see [[ThunderCat]].''
''[[w:ThunderCats (1985 TV series)|ThunderCats]]'' was a 1985 animated series produced by [[w:Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment|Rankin/Bass]] – yes, the ''Rudolph'' people – based on characters created by [[w:Tobin Wolf|Ted Wolf]]. The show told the story of a group of feline nobles exiled from their dying home planet coming to settle on the surreal world of [[Third Earth]], where they must contend not only with its strange flora, fauna, and peoples but also the frequent machinations of the devil priest [[Mumm-Ra]], who sought to gain the power of leader [[Lion-O]]'s mystical Sword of Omens. ''ThunderCats'' stood out due to its anime-influenced (by which we mean "outsourced to Japan") animation, its moral lessons courtesy of a psychological consultant on staff, and the part of its first episode where all the main characters stroll around in the nuddy.
In the U.S., ''ThunderCats'' received {{Marvel|ThunderCats_Vol_1|a tie-in Marvel comic book}} under the [[w:Star Comics|Star Comics]] imprint. Following in the footsteps of giant( robot)s, Marvel UK's version of ''ThunderCats'' augmented its U.S. reprints with homegrown strips, text stories, and a truly awful gag strip called ''One Cat and his Cod''. Like other Marvel UK contemporaries, the ThunderCats were embroiled in a scheme involving the Gwanzulums.
*Issue 66: "[[Double Jeopardy!]]" part 1
*Issue 67: "Double Jeopardy!" part 2
''ThunderCats'' was running on fumes from around the hundredth issue mark, printing reprints of reprints. "Double Jeopardy!" was on shelves again in issues 107 and 108, the former of which gave us the cover seen at right.
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