Knights of Pendragon

The Knights of Pendragon were a team of heroes (created by Dan Abnett, Gary Erskine and John Tomlinson) who starred in their own title published by Marvel UK from 1990-1993. Their original series ran for eighteen monthly issues from July 1990, and was printed on Scangloss environmentally friendly paper, as befitted the ecological message of the series: essentially, it was about a group of sometimes unlikely heroes originally including Captain Britain, his occasional ally policeman Dai Thomas, reporter Kate McLellan and writer Ben Ghallager being gathered together by the mystical entity known as the Green Knight and empowered to battle the forces of the demonic Bane and their agent, Grace. Captain Britain's participation in the title was minimal, probably because by this time Marvel UK's American parent company were using him regularly in the X-Men related book Excalibur, so after the first story arc he was effectively replaced in the strip by Union Jack, ironically a character originally created by Marvel US (though here given a new costume clearly inspired by artist Alan Davis's 1981 redesign for Captain Britain (Captain Britain's face, however, continued to appear in the corner box on the cover).