Secret History: Charley's War - The Second World War Part 2

Joe Colquhoun is our greatest British comic artist and – out of respect and as a tribute to him – there should be a special collection of his art, including the Second World War stories.

Welcome to my Secret History of Comics: my new book serialised on Substack. The first section was on Marshal Law: now it’s all about Charley’s War.

If you’re joining me for the first time, you can read the intro to the Secret History here, it’s available for everyone, and so is the intro to Charley’s War.

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Joe Colquhoun

Scott’s Charley in World War Two appeared and died the death in record time, the readers giving it a provable and well-recorded thumbs down and the series was cancelled. I’m sure Gill just shrugged his shoulders at the demise of a great saga which could potentially still be around today with Charley’s grandson in Iraq and his great grandson in Afghanistan. A troll – who I think may be a jealous writer on 2000AD who trolls me on social media from time to time using ever changing twitter handles – has challenged me recently on this, inventing unlikely reasons for the failure of Charley’s War in WW2 to suit his strange vendetta, but the evidence and the hard facts speak for themselves.

There are two important reasons why it’s necessary to dig all this up again. Firstly, because that rejection is a tribute to you, the readers.