Revolver (comics)

Revolver is the title of a short-lived British comic book magazine published by Fleetway Publications in the early 1990s. Founded by Steve MacManus and edited by Peter Hogan, "Revolver" was a spin-off from "2000AD". "Revolver" attempted to take advantage of the 1960s revival which was sweeping British culture in the early 1990s, including the explosion of the British music scene at the time.
The title of the magazine referred to its revolving, diverse content; it also alluded to the Beatles' album of the same name.
"Revolver" gained a small following, but not enough for it to last beyond its seventh issue. It was given the 1991 UK Comic Art Award for Best New Publication.
Publication history.
"Revolver" was published between July 1990 and January 1991, lasting for seven regular issues and two specials. After it was canceled, some sources blamed the magazine's poor sales on it being labeled "Mature Content," and thus being sold on newsstands next to men's magazines. Two of its stories were concluded in another Fleetway publication, "Crisis". ("Crisis" itself folded a few months later.)
The magazine's letters page was called "The Whole Wide Whirl."
Contents.
"Revolver" featured a wide range of graphic styles and contributors, everything from a surreal inside-the-mind-of Jimi Hendrix storyline ("Purple Days"), a psychedelic superhero in the form of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's "Rogan Gosh", distorted caricatures in "Pinhead Nation" (Shaky Kane), plus "Happenstance and Kismet" (Paul Neary and Steve Parkhouse), student-house antics in "Dire Streets" (Julie Hollings), as well as the resurrection of Dan Dare, this time in a story called simply "Dare". In "Dare", writer Grant Morrison and artist Rian Hughes gave a new interpretation to the original "Eagle" character in a political story, setting Dan Dare against a thinly veiled caricature of the Thatcher government.
Two "Revolver Specials" were also published, a "Revolver Horror Special" (including some material by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham) around Halloween 1990, and a "Revolver Romance Special" in March 1991, two months after the cancellation of "Revolver" itself.
After "Revolver"'s cancellation, "Dare" and "Happenstance and Kismet" were completed in the pages of "Crisis". "Dare" was collected into a four-issue limited series in 1992 by Fantagraphics. "Rogan Gosh" was compiled into a collected edition in 1994 by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.