DC Thomson launched The Crunch in January 1979 as an attempt to compete with rival publisher IPC’s 2000AD.
The lead strip was ‘Arena’ in which a corrupt 21st Century government treated those who spoke against it as criminals and sentenced them to fights to the death in an arena. The comic ran for 54 issues before it merged with Hotspur.
Regular strips included:
Arena – Mark Sabor fought for his life in the 21st century
Clancy And The Man
The Hit Man – Hugh Marston killed to order for British Intelligence
The Kyser Experiment – Dr Kyser performed experiments on a football team to try and make them unbeatable
The Mantracker – aka bounty hunter Bearpaw Jay
The Mill Street Mob
Operation Omega
Plague 2000 – Brett Cantrell battled to save mankind from annihilation
Programmed To Kill
Space Wars
Starhawk – Sol Rynn was “Starhawk”, protector of the galaxies
Striker From Nowhere
The Walking Bombs
Who Killed Cassidy? – Ross Harper hunted down the assassin of the POTUS
Related Posts
Wizard of Wor “Fight me! I am the Wizard of Wor!” Part Pac-Man, part Alien, part Dungeons and Dragons, Bally Midway’s Wizard of…
Pac-Man It will come as no surprise that Pac-Man originated in Japan, where a Japanese computer firm called Namco Limited, modelled…
Arcade Games Early 1950s fore-runners of arcade games included photo booths which became a national craze and shuffle games which moved beyond…
Sea Monkeys There have been plenty of toys that allowed children to put their natural creative energies to work. Lego, Erector sets, and countless…
Look-in Look-in - promoted as the "Junior TV Times" - was published every Thursday (eventually every Friday) between 1971 and 1994 and…
Frogger The object of Frogger was almost Zen-like: to get to the other side. But considerably less Zen were the many…
Popeye By the early 1980s, thanks to hits like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, video arcade games were starting to take on…
Game Boy Gaming companies had launched primitive and clumsy portable consoles in the past, but it was the arrival of the Nintendo…
