Comics Revue is a bi-monthly small press comic book published by Manuscript Press. As of 2007, it has published more than 250 monthly issues, making it the second longest running independent comic book (after Cerebus the Aardvark). It reprints comic strips such as Alley Oop, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Gasoline Alley, Flash Gordon, The Amazing Spider-Man, Star Wars, Hagar the Horrible, Peanuts, Batman, Barnaby, Steve Canyon, Casey Ruggles, Lance, O'Neill, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Mandrake the Magician, The Phantom, Latigo, Rick O'Shay, and Buz Sawyer.
In issue #200, Comics Revue featured the only English language publication of "The Dark Angels", the last Modesty Blaise story, by Peter O'Donnell and Romero. This issue also included a complete index to the comic strips published in Comics Revue #1–200.
In 2006, it was revealed in Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths that the Batman stories published in Comics Revue actually happened on Earth-1289.
In October 2009 the magazine re-launched as a bi-monthly title but doubled its page count, and expanded its colour section to feature all Sunday strips in colour. Each issue includes least one complete story of one of the strips featured.
References
- Maggie Thompson, Comics Buyer's Guide, "Rick Norwood has produced this labor of love for years now, and it continues to be a bargain. (list of contents) Absolutely recommended."[cite this quote]
- Tony Isabella, Comics Buyer's Guide, "Not every strip will be a winner with every reader, but I like Comics Revue enough to give it four Tonys."[cite this quote]
- Louis Cance, Hop! No. 112, "Comics Revue Ce mensuel propose dans ses 68 pages une belle sélection de grands classiques de la BD américaine avec..." (Comics Revue. This monthly magazine reprints in its 68 pages a beautiful selection great classic comic strips from America, including...") (list of contents)
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