Mike Nelson

A creature of Britain's Bronze Age war comics boom, Mike Nelson burst onto the scene in Battle Picture Weekly in 1975 — one of IPC's hard-edged anthology titles that defined a generation of UK comics readers. Crafted by the formidable team of Pat Mills and Gerry Finley-Day alongside artist Annibale Casabianca, Nelson is a testament to the gritty, uncompromising storytelling that made Battle a weekly must-read. His run is compact but punchy, sharing those action-packed pages with a memorable cast of characters including Kabul "the Turk" Hasan, Ian "Scarface" Rogan, and the colourfully named Ronald Weasel and Matthew Dancer — exactly the kind of rough-edged company you'd expect in this corner of British comics history. With a key issue to his name and the pedigree of Mills and Finley-Day behind him, Mike Nelson is a rewarding discovery for any collector digging into the rich, often underappreciated world of IPC's war comics.