# List of Crisis (British comics) stories

A list of stories published in the Fleetway Publications comic Crisis between 1989 and 1991.
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## Artoons

    Published: #15-24 (1 April to 5 August 1989)
    Artist: Brendan McCarthy
* Surreal back-page single frame cartoons.

## Bible John - A Forensic Examination

    Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991)
    Writer: Grant Morrison
    Artist: Daniel Vallely
An examination of the Bible John killings in Glasgow.

## China in Crisis 1989

    Published: #42 (14 April 1990) and #45 (26 May 1990)
    Writer: Tony Allen
    Artist: David Hine
An account of the Tiananmen Square protests, and the authorities' brutal crackdown.

## The Crooked Mile/Angels Amongst Us

    Published: #28-38 (30 September 1989 to 17 February 1990)
    Writer and Artist: Philip Bond
* Cartoons printed on the rear cover; "The Cooked Mile" was a surreal, unsettling painted one-frame image, while "Angels Amongst Us" was a four-panel strip featuring an amiable, wisecracking angel.

## Dare

    Published: #56 (March 1991)
    Writer: Grant Morrison
    Artist: Rian Hughes
Retired Colonel Dan Dare finds the future far than idyllic.
* Continued from Revolver. A summary of the story to date was printed in Crisis #55.

## For a Few Troubles More

    Published: #40-43 (17 March to 28 April 1990) and #45-46 (28 May to 9 June 1990)
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: John McCrea
Belfast layabout Dougie Patterson is set to marry his long-suffering, pregnant girlfriend Valerie. The only sticking point is that Dougie insists on making his even more crass friend Ivor Thompson his best man, despite the inherent contradiction in terms.
* Sequel to "Troubled Souls". Collected in 1991 by Fleetway Publications as For a Few Troubles More. Dougie and Ivor were later resurrected by Ennis and McCrea for the 1997 Caliber Comics series Dicks, where the pair made a bungled attempt to become private detectives, and have subsequently appeared in titles published by Avatar Press.

## The General and the Priest

    Published: #54-55 (January to February 1991)
    Writer: Igor Goldkind
    Artist: Jim Baikie
A Panamanian padre receives a visitor from his dark past, a former army general on the run from the American military.
* The story was published on the second anniversary of the United States invasion of Panama, which was compared to the then-contemporary Iraqi invasion of Kuwait by the editorial.

## Happenstance and Kismet

    Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991)
    Writer: Paul Neary
    Artist: Steve Parkhouse
The misadventures of jazz musician Monty Happenstance and translator Lucius Kismet.
* Continued from Revolver.

## Insiders

    Published: #54-59 (January to June 1991)
    Writer: Mark Millar
    Artist: Paul Grist
Frank Murray begins a 12-year stint in the dehumanising jail system of Northern Ireland.

## The New Adventures of Hitler

    Published: #46-49 (9 June to 21 July 1990)
    Writer: Grant Morrison
    Artist: Steve Yeowell
In 1912 Liverpool, Austrian immigrant Alois and his wife Bridget reluctantly host the former's brother Adolf, a failed painter searching for the Holy Grail.
* Originally created for publication in Cut.

## New Statesmen

    Published: #1-14 (17 September 1988 to 18 March 1989), #28 (30 September 1989)
    Writer: John Smith
    Artists: Jim Baikie (#1-4, #9-12 and #28), Sean Phillips (#5-6 and #13-14), Duncan Fegredo (#7-8)
In 2047, the 51 states of America (including England as the 51st) each possess genetically modified Optimen. Created with superhuman 'hard' and 'soft' talents, these are essentially biological weapons, and the world is in the grip of fear of genetic engineering and political warmongering.
* Repackaged as the five-issue limited series New Statesmen for the American market in 1989, and later compiled as The Complete New Statesmen by Fleetway.

## The Real Robin Hood

    Published: #56-61 (March to August 1991)
    Writer: Michael Cook
    Artist: Gary Erskine
Unemployed artist Danny lands the role of Robin Hood at a new Nottingham theme part designed to commercialise the memory of the folk hero.

## Sinner: Viet Blues

    Published: #52-55 (November 1990 to February 1991)
    Writer: Carlos Sampayo
    Artist: José Antonio Muñoz
Cop turned private eye Alack Sinner gets involved in a racially-charged case in Harlem.
* Originally printed in the 1986 Alack Sinner album "Viet Blues". Coloured for Crisis by Steve Whitaker.

## Sticky Fingers

    Published: #15-21 (1 April to 24 June 1989) and #23-27 (22 July to 16 September 1989)
    Writer: Myra Hancock
    Artist: David Hine
Tomboyish Weeny begins flat-sharing with Holly in Camden Town while trying to escape the temptation of returning to her former life of theft.

## Straitgate

    Published: #50-53 (September to December 1990)
    Writer: John Smith
    Artist/s: Sean Phillips
A young homosexual man wrestles with the stigma of being gay in contemporary Britain.
* Two pages of the story were deemed not fit for publication, and removed.

## Third World War

    Published: #1-27 (17 September 1988 to 16 September 1989), #29-38 (14 October 1989 to 17 February 1990), #40-51 (17 March to October 1990), #53 (December 1990)
    Writers: Pat Mills (all) with Alan Mitchell (#17-21, #24-48 and #53), Malachy Coney (#22-23), Tony Skinner (#49-51)
    Artists: Carlos Ezquerra (#1-6, #9-14, #17-18, #20-21), D'Israeli (#7), Angela Kincaid (#8, #15; as Angie Mills), John Hicklenton (#16, #25, #29, #35, #53), Duncan Fegredo (#19, #26), Sean Phillips (#22-24, #27, #31, #33-34), Richard Piers Rayner (#30), Glyn Dillon (#32, #40-44), David Pugh(#36, #49-51), Robert Blackwell (#37, #45-48), Tim Perkins (#38)
In the near future, global corporations are exploiting commercial opportunities in the developing world under the guise of FreeAid, a military security force. Eve Collins, an unemployed university graduate, is conscripted as a soldier working for FreeAid.
* Material from Crisis #1-14 was reprinted for the American market as the 1990 limited series Third World War.

## Trip to Tulum

    Published: #60-63 (July to October 1991)
    Writer: Federico Fellini
    Artist: Milo Manara
After falling into a pond chasing Federico Fellini's hat, a beautiful woman finds herself in a strange, magical world.
* Originally published in Italian as Viaggio a Tulum by Rizzoli Libri in 1990. A collected album of the English translation was issued by Catalan Communications the same year.

## Troubled Souls

    Published: #15-27 (1 April to 16 September 1989
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: John McCrea
In 1989 Belfast, protestant youth Tom Boyd finds himself unwittingly drawn into an IRA plot - and becoming friends with catholic volunteer Damian McWilliams.
* Followed by "For a Few Troubles More". Later collected as Troubled Souls - A Crisis Graphic Novel.

## True Faith

    Published: #29-38 (14 October 1989 to 17 February 1990)
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: Warren Pleece
After growing increasingly cynical about the Christians he encounters in day-to-day life, teenager Nigel Gibson becomes fascinated after a chance encounter with Terry Adair, a man who plans to kill God by using a terror campaign against organised religion to draw the deity out into the open.

## Wroom

    Published: #52-58 (November 1990 to May 1991)
    Writer: Igor Goldkind (as IZ)
    Artist: Dix

## One-off stories

* To Serve and Protect
    Published: #21 (24 June 1989)
    Writer/artist: Floyd Hughes (as Floyd R. Jones-Hughes)
* The Geek
    Published: #22 (8 July 1989)
    Writer: Malachy Coney
    Artist: Jim McCarthy
* The Student Konstabel
    Published: #28 (30 September 1989)
    Writer/artist: Phillip Swarbrick
* Her Parents
    Published: #31 (11 November 1989)
    Writer: Mark Millar
    Artist: John McCrea
* The Clicking of High Heels
    Published: #32 (25 November 1989)
    Writer: Sarah Bromley-Anderson
    Artist: Floyd Hughes
* Two Pretty Names
    Published: #33 (9 December 1989)
    Writers: Si Spencer and Sue Swasey
    Artists: Phil Laskey and Carol Swain
* Squirrels in Carroll Street
    Published: #34 (23 December 1989)
    Writer/artist: Floyd Hughes
* Feedback
    Published: #34 (23 December 1989)
    Writer/artist: Al Davison
* Didn't You Love My Brother?
    Published: #35 (6 January 1990)
    Writer: Tony Allen
    Artist: David Hine
* Suburban Hell
    Published: #36 (20 January 1990)
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: Phillip Swarbrick
* Banged Up
    Published: #37 (3 February 1990)
    Writer: Jack Blackburn
    Artist: David Lloyd
* The Death Factory
    Published: #39 (3 March 1990)
    Writer: Pat Mills
    Artist: Sean Phillips
      * Produced in association with Amnesty International.
* A Kind of Madness
    Published: #39 (3 March 1990)
    Writer: Pat Mills
    Artist: Sean Phillips
      * Produced in association with Amnesty International.
* A Day in the Life
    Published: #39 (3 March 1990)
    Writer: Igor Goldkind
    Artist: Glenn Fabry
      * Produced in association with Amnesty International.
* Murky Waters
    Published: #40 (17 March 1990)
    Writer: James Robinson
    Artist: Tony Salmons
* Brighton Gas
    Published: #41 (31 March 1990)
    Writer: Gary Pleece
    Artist: Warren Pleece
* C-Rap
    Published: #41 (31 March 1990)
    Writer: Peter Hogan
    Artist: Edmund Bagwell (as Anoniman)
* Passion and Fire
    Published: #42 (14 April 1990)
    Writer: Carlos Sampayo
    Artist: Oscar Zárate
* Faceless
    Published: #42 (14 April 1990)
    Writer/artist: Floyd Hughes
* The Ballad of Andrew Brown
    Published: #43 (28 April 1990)
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: Phil Winslade
* Try a Little Tenderness
    Published: #44 (12 May 1990)
    Writer: Si Spencer
    Artist: Steve Sampson
* Masters of Disguise
    Published: #44 (12 May 1990)
    Writer/artist: Tomoko Rei Sato
* The Farmer and the Soldiers
    Published: #44 (12 May 1990)
    Writer: Igor Goldkind
    Artists: David Lloyd and Caroline Della Porta
* Felicity
    Published: #47 (23 June 1990)
    Writer: Chris Standley
    Artist: Pete Doherty
* The Soldier & the Painter
    Published: #48 (7 July 1990)
    Writer: Igor Goldkind
    Artist: Phil Winslade
* Chicken Run
    Published: #49 (21 July 1989)
    Writer: Gary Pleece
    Artist: Warren Pleece
* No Messin' with Rupert
    Published: #50 (September 1990)
    Writer: Carlos Sampayo
    Artist: Oscar Zárate
* Your Death, My Life
    Published: #50 (September 1990)
    Writer/artist: Milo Manara
* Suddenly, Last Week
    Published: #51 (October 1990)
    Writer: Nicholas Vince
    Artist: Paul Johnson
* The Wall
    Published: #51 (October 1990)
    Writer: Tony Allen
    Artist: Enki Bilal
* The Power of the Pen
    Published: #51 (October 1990)
    Writer/artist: Alberto Breccia
* Prisoner of Justice
    Published:#52 (November 1990)
    Writer: Alan Mitchell
    Artist: Glenn Fabry
* The Happiest Days
    Published: #52 (November 1990)
    Writer: Martine d'Ellard
    Artist: Caroline Della Porta
* The School
    Published: #53 (December 1990)
    Writer: Martine d'Ellard
    Artist: Ed Hillyer
* In Cages, There is No Escape
    Published: #54 (January 1991)
    Writer/artist: Paul Johnson
* Passing Through
    Published: #55 (February 1991
    Writer/artist: Miguelanxo Prado
* Lord Jim
    Published: #59 (June 1991)
    Writer: Igor Goldkind
    Artist: Steve Sampson
* Unlikely Stories, Mostly: End Game
    Published: #60 (July 1991)
    Writer/artist: Miguelanxo Prado
* Light Me
    Published: #61 (August 1991)
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: Phil Winslade
* Worms
    Published: #62 (September 1991)
    Writer/artist: David Hine
* Waddle on the Wild Side
    Published: #62 (September 1991)
    Writer/artist: Al Davison
* Charlie Lives with Fan and Snuggles
    Published: #62 (September 1991)
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: Ian Oldham
* Body Snatchers
    Published: #62 (September 1991)
    Writers: Ian Abnett & Alan Cowsill
    Artist: Andrew Currie
* Strange Hotel
    Published: #62 (September 1991)
    Writer: Si Spencer
    Artist: Adrian Dungworthy
* The Big Voice
    Published: #63 (October 1991)
    Writer: Nick Abadzis
    Artist: Edmund Bagwell (as Edmund Perryman)
* Operation Massacre
    Published: #63 (October 1991)
    Writer: Gabriel López
    Artist: Francisco Solano López
* Commuter's Journey
    Published: #63 (October 1991)
    Writer/artist: Nick Abadzis