Tornado Vol 1

Tornado was a weekly comic published by IPC from March to August 1979, running a total of 22 issues.Presided over by a fictional 'editor', the superheroic Big E (portrayed in several comedic photo strip stories by artist Dave Gibbons) the title featured a mix of stories from different genres including Black-Hawk, about a Roman slave turned Centurion, The Mind of Wolfie Smith, about the adventures of a psychic teenage runaway, Storm, about a wild boy from the Highlands of Scotland, superhero spoof Captain Klep, science fiction saga The Angry Planet (about Martian colonists being exploited by a greedy corporation), war story Wagner's Walk (about a trio of German P.O.W's trying to escape from Siberia in 1948), detective Victor Drago and in later issues The Lawless Touch, about enterprising thief Johnny Lawless. There were also a number of shorter stories including The Tale of Benkei, a supposedly true story about an elderley Samurai. Following its cancellation, Tornado was merged with 2000AD although only Black-Hawk, Wolfie Smith and Captain Klep transferred across. A Tornado Special was published in 1979, and Annuals were published in 1979 and 1980, dated 1980 and 1981 respectively.