Marvel UK's Action Force Comic
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 U.S. G.I. Joe comic book (which were adjusted to fit into the UK strip's continuity and had all references to G.I. Joe replaced with Action Force) and new UK-exclusive short strips which maintained a separate continuity from the U.S. G.I. Joe comic. The Action Force comic was cancelled in 1988 after fifty issues, due to low sales, and was replaced with Action Force Monthly, which was itself cancelled after fifteen issues. The Action Force Monthly title printed new stories as well reprinting stories from the weekly title. The magazine was released in the US under the title G.I. Joe—European Missions.
The G.I. Joe story reprints were continued in the UK Transformers comic until they were dropped in 1991, with the name changing to "G.I. Joe the Action Force" in late 1989 to conform to the toy line (and then later to just "G.I. Joe"). (In 1995, Panini Comics obtained the Marvel UK licence and began publishing an Action Man comic the following year, without reference to Action Force or G.I. Joe.)
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