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Cover: Patrick McEown & Rob Clark & Craig Taillefer & Patrick McEown & Rob Clark & Craig Taillefer

Underground #[nn]

Jan 1987 · Aircel Publishing · 1.70 USD; 2.00 CAN
“Spontaneous Combustion”

Friends Chas and Rory, squatters in an English row house area steal for the Fagin-esque "Grimes", coming into conflict with the local skinheads. After the skinhead leader, Chas, kills their friend Toadie in a pub brawl, Chas vows to leave the Underground. Living aimlessly for months, one day Chas is beaten by three skinheads, and rescued by a local nurse in training, Stephanie, and he spends the night in her flat. Scratch explains to the others that he's leaving and Grimes allows him to leave on condition of silence, and he moves in with Stephanie, who says it's too early for talk of love.

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Full credits

artist Rob Clark
inker Rob Clark
letterer Shark
cover pencils Patrick McEown
cover pencils Rob Clark
cover pencils Craig Taillefer
cover inks Patrick McEown
cover inks Rob Clark
cover inks Craig Taillefer

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Friends Chas and Rory, squatters in an English row house area steal for the Fagin-esque "Grimes", coming into conflict with the local skinheads. After the skinhead leader, Chas, kills their friend Toadie in a pub brawl, Chas vows to leave the Underground. Living aimlessly for months, one day Chas is beaten by three skinheads, and rescued by a local nurse in training, Stephanie, and he spends the night in her flat. Scratch explains to the others that he's leaving and Grimes allows him to leave on condition of silence, and he moves in with Stephanie, who says it's too early for talk of love.

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