Blood for the Baron!

In 2003, the Judge Dredd Megazine published a four-part history of Battle Picture Weekly to supplement the then current reprinting of Battle favourites Darkie’s Mob and Charley’s War. Former Megazine and 2000AD editor David Bishop wrote the articles in a similar vein to his Thrill Power Overload feature published some months earlier. Bishop managed to secure interviews with several former staffers, writers and artists from the comic who, with the benefit of hindsight in the modern comics era, reminisced about good times and bad, and probably ruffled a few feathers and trampled on a few toes along the way. With choice quotes from Pat Mills, David Hunt, John Wagner and John Cooper, to name but a few, the article is reproduced in its entirety below, courtesy of Jim Marshall.