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3 unusual facts about Action Force


Action Force

Action Force characters have appeared as limited edition toys and comic characters as part of the International G.I. Joe Convention, under the name Special Action Force or SAF (a riff on the SAS; not to be confused with the Philippines' real-life Special Action Force).

Following the demise of the Battle Action Force strips, a weekly Action Force comic was launched by Marvel UK on March 8, 1987, consisting of reprints of the US G.I. Joe comic book and new UK-exclusive short strips.

Called Action Force, the figures were a mixture of historical military figures (e.g. Desert Rat and German Storm trooper characters) and more contemporary soldiers (e.g. Arctic and Naval Assault characters).


Action Man: 1993–2006

Panini Comics own the Marvel UK licence and Marvel UK had previously been responsible for the creation of an Action Force comic.

Lew Stringer

His best remembered creations are Tom Thug and Pete and His Pimple for Oink! comic (1986), which outlasted that comic and continued into Buster comic, and Combat Colin the halfwit hero who featured in Action Force and The Transformers comics.


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