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| rdfs:comment | - Combat Colin was a comic strip drawn by Lew Stringer and originally published in the Marvel UK Action Force comic (staring in issue #5) but transferring to the Marvel UK Transformers comic when the former title merged into it from issue #153. The strip replaced the Robo-Capers strip, although the two strips would have a special crossover in issue #200.
- The strip started as just half a page in Action Force but after a few months its popularity earned it a full page each week. When it transferred to Transformers from #153 onwards the strip was initially half a page in colour but transformed into a full page black and white strip from issue #224, with the occasional colour strip. From issue #300 the strip was in full colour. For the final two issues of the comic the strip was given two pages.
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| abstract | - Combat Colin was a comic strip drawn by Lew Stringer and originally published in the Marvel UK Action Force comic (staring in issue #5) but transferring to the Marvel UK Transformers comic when the former title merged into it from issue #153. The strip replaced the Robo-Capers strip, although the two strips would have a special crossover in issue #200. In Transformers the strip was initially a half-page in colour, with the occasional full page special, but transformed into a full page black and white strip from issue #224, with the occasional colour strip. From issue #300 the strip was in full colour. For the final two issues of the comic the strip was given two pages. Although Combat Colin began life as an Action Force inspired strip he proved highly popular in Transformers and remained in the comic even when Action Force (later G.I. Joe the Action Force) left the comic on three occasions (between issue #183 & issue #190, issue #213 & issue #219 and permanently from issue #306). Combat Colin told of the adventures of Colin Doobrey-Smiff, a bumbling would-be war hero living in British suburbia. Together with his sidekick Semi-Automatic Steve he had many adventures. The strip sometimes breaks the fourth wall, acknowledging the readers and the wider comic.
- The strip started as just half a page in Action Force but after a few months its popularity earned it a full page each week. When it transferred to Transformers from #153 onwards the strip was initially half a page in colour but transformed into a full page black and white strip from issue #224, with the occasional colour strip. From issue #300 the strip was in full colour. For the final two issues of the comic the strip was given two pages. The strip featured the adventures of bobble-hatted British military nut and bumbler Combat Colin, aided by his sidekick Semi-Automatic Steve as they fell afoul of both their own weaknesses and villains like Doctor Nasty, Aunt Arctic, Mad Prof, the Amazing Dave and Megabrain.
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