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No #16 (21st June 1975) has the wrong page 25 (it has the first page of the previous week’s episodes of Lofty) so I took the liberty of swapping in the proper page. Issue 26 (30th August 1975) doesn’t seem to be included in the August or September 1975 .rars, so I made a scan of my own copy, which I hope is okay.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/z42ntjbylwalmsq/Battle_Picture_Weekly_016_%255B1975-06-21%255D_proper_page_25.cbr/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ayszf0bmzotk993/Battle_Picture_Weekly_026_%255B1975-08-30%255D.cbr/file
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Thanks for letting me know, i don’t know what went wrong, i just downloaded 1975-06-21 and page 24 is the story Wingwalking wonder with the second page of that story at page 25 where it says at the bottom “next week – the boy who took the suicide express” the pack for august 1975 contained 5 issues including 30 august. Perhaps 1 was updating the page at the moment you downloaded them, or downloaded them before i updated the page.
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Hi. Can you upload the correct page 25 for issue #16 again? Thanks
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I was more interested by far in Charley’s War than in any other Battle comics, after having pieced it together from odd issues of Battle and Eagle, some from the original print, some from reprints, I came here to fill in the gaps, also to see in colour those strips I’d only seen in black and white.
The first reprint began in Battle after the first run ended, Charley aged about 40 being relieved from France, narrowly escaping Dunkirk with injuries likely to prevent him from ever having to return. I first caught Charley’s War not far into the reprint, getting hold of a stray Battle around ’89, by which time Battle was out of print and the reprint resuming in Eagle.
So now I’m fully caught up on Charley, most interesting was that I discovered parts cut from the reprints e.g. one entire strip, the morning after the second Silvertown Zeppelin raid, Charley had rescued his mum from the factory and the lead Zeppelin with Kapitan von Bergman had crash landed in Silvertown. It explains why, in the reprint, the prior strip previewed the next strip as “Death Agony”, which didn’t fit as it skipped the Zeppelin aftermath to the strip with Wilf Bourne attempting to join the army, lying about his age as Charley had, and Charley stopping him, trying to explain why he didn’t want him to join. The “Death Agony” strip ended with Blind Bob’s tragic, accidental death, he walked into the path of a car after being offered a reward for using his superior hearing to help detect zeppelins the previous night, saving him from being thrown in a workhouse. Frames from Blue’s story were cut too. The Eagle reprint was wrapped up early, skipping ahead to the end of WW1 and Charley’s fight to the death with Snell, so for the first time I saw the return of “Scholar” as a Lieutenant, Charley’s sniper duty involving Corporal Adolf Hitler, “Wilf’s War” as an air gunner, cousin Jack Bourne’s war at sea, Charley’s marriage to nurse Kate Wincer and Snell’s attempts to escape custody at the insane asylum and get revenge on Charley, Charley’s promotion to Corporal and the suspicious Private Skin and finally Charley and Jack’s prison camp escape, which preceded the end of the war.
Charley’s War was mainly concerned with Charley and his mates trying to make the best of it, the mates often being replaced, but there would always be comradery and mutual support between the rank and file soldiers, then there was their ever present, tough, but decent Sarge. The officers were a different story, very few decent ones except of course Lt. Thomas who quite early on was tragically executed for withdrawing what remained of his men from their suicidal position, under bombardment from their own artillary. Lt. Cooper might aswell have been Thomas’ younger brother, he defended the ranks from Snell and the other officers as best as he could, I don’t remember Cooper’s fate, I know he along with Charley and Sapper Reeves went after Snell in Bakerloo mine to stop him setting off explosives that would have hit their own side, with a mind to kill him if necessary, ultimately Snell was hit by his own richochet and presumed put out of the war. I’m not sure if that was the last we saw of Cooper. I just remembered another decent officer, the lieutenant who defended Charley in his court martial.
I know that Blue the legionaire/deserter was a very popular character, I liked him too, was glad when he was bought back having gone from being a deserter to a kind of rebel leader, raiding training camps and saving soldiers from punishment or execution. As for Charley’s mates, I guess Weeper Watkins was overall his closest friend. It was Ginger Jones at first, but he was blown to pieces right in front of Charley not that far in, Charley stoicly scooping the remains into a sack and burying him.
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