Major Taggart

A grizzled figure born from the gritty, uncompromising world of British war comics, Major Taggart made his debut in the pages of IPC's Battle Picture Weekly Annual in 1976 — right in the heart of the Bronze Age, when British anthology weeklies were delivering some of the most visceral combat storytelling on either side of the Atlantic. Over nearly five decades of appearances across Battle Picture Weekly and Valiant, Battle Action, and beyond, this is a character with genuine staying power in a genre that demanded it. He shares his world with vivid, hard-edged figures like Ian "Scarface" Rogan, Kabul "the Turk" Hasan, and Johnny 'Red' Redburn — exactly the kind of colourful, battle-scarred company you'd expect in these legendary IPC pages. With a key issue already to his name, Major Taggart is a rewarding find for any collector with a soft spot for the golden era of British war comics.