The Red, White & Blue

Series 1: 2007 - 2011

The Red, White & Blue began early "development" in 2005 or 2006. I was spurred on by reading about Sexton Blake in issue 235 of the Judge Dredd Megazine. Up until then I was all over the "grim 'n gritty, dark, realistic social satire" of 2000AD and the Meg, considered it unfortunate that Britain hadn't "been ready" for the woke garbage in Crisis, and so on...

That Sexton Blake article changed all that. Overnight I made the pivot to an interest in traditional "Boys' Own" adventures and, barring a brief flirtation with wanting to create a horror-focused "Penny Dreadful" called The Horrific Picture-Paper, with more of that "dark social satire"*, I settled on unoffically continuing Sexton Blake's home paper, the Union Jack, in my own way...

*-Most of what was made for this, which wasn't much, found it's way into a small comic called "Stuff From Before I Grew Up"... which I should probably shove up a PDF of. I only printed about 20!

Red, White & Blue Issue 1 (Christmas 2007 - actually completed Feb 2008)

Eugene Manx - The Last Resistance part 1 (RWB 1)

Sexton Blake - The Missing Million (not reprinted)

Tigers of Pubjab - Part 1 (RWB 1)

Article - The Duke of Detection, a history of Sexton Blake (not reprinted, and full of errors anyway)

British Greats - Supermarine Spitfire (not reprinted)

Size: A4 | Pages: 24 | Price: £1

Red, White & Blue Issue 2 (March 2008)

Eugene Manx - The Last Resistance part 2 (RWB 2)

Sexton Blake - The Motorway Killer (not reprinted)

Tigers of Pubjab - Part 2 (RWB 2)

Article - 200 Years Ago, the story of a balloon duel (not reprinted)

British Greats - Hawker Hurricane (not reprinted)

Size: A4 | Pages: 20 | Price: £1

Issue 3 (March 2010)

Eugene Manx - The Last Resistance part 3 (RWB 3)

Tigers Of Punjab - part 3 (RWB 3)

Sarah Millman & The Air Pirates part 1 (RWB 3)

Sexton Blake - The Train Crash Killer (not reprinted)

The Day of the Green Skulls - part 1 (not reprinted)

British Greats - BMC Mini (not reprinted)

The Signal Lamp - Editor's page

Size: A4 | Pages: 24 | Price: £1½

Issue 4 (Jan-Feb 2011 - actually finished March 2011)

A Sting in the Tail! (RWB 2)

Tigers of Punjab - Part 4 (RWB 4)

Sarah Millman - The Air Pirates part 2 (RWB 4)

Sexton Blake - In Hong Kong (not reprinted)

The Day of the Green Skulls - part 2 (not reprinted)

The Signal Lamp - Editor's page

Size: A4 | Pages: 24 | Price: £1½