Countdown (Odhams Press)
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Countdown was a British comic book that ran for 132 issues from (issues dates) 20 February 1971 to 25 August 1973.
The pages in each issue were numbered in reverse order with page 1 at the end.
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[edit] Title
The title changed slightly in the course of the run:
- 1-18 Countdown
- 19-45 Countdown The Space-age comic!
- 46-56 Countdown for TV Action!
- 57-58 TV Action in Countdown
- 59-100 TV Action + Countdown
- 101-132 TV Action
[edit] Strips
Many of the strips were reprinted from TV 21.
Its strips included:
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Autocat and Motormouse
- Cannon
- Captain Scarlet
- Countdown
- Dad's Army
- Dastardly and Muttley
- Dr. Who
- Droopy
- Fireball XL5
- Hawaii Five-O
- Joe 90
- Lady Penelope
- The Persuaders!
- The Protectors
- The Secret Service
- Stingray
- Tightrope
- Thunderbirds
- UFO
- Zero-X
[edit] Countdown
The eponymous "Countdown" strip was drawn by John Burns, and not directly based on a TV show, though it did feature a spacecraft based on the "Discovery" from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
