Forces in Combat

Forces in Combat was a war themed comic launched by Marvel UK on May 15th 1980. Deliberately emulating the format of traditional British war comics (as its predecessor title, Fury, had done before it) rather than looking like a standard Marvel title, it featured ereprints of American Marvel stories featuring tales of armed conflict in different genres; Nick Fury in World War II, Rom, Spaceknight and Machine Man representing science fiction, Shang-Chi representing secret agents, Rawhide Kid as an example of the Western genre, fantasy strip Kull and, curiously, one non Marvel strip, the historical Wulf the Briton by Ron Embleton, previously published in Polystyle's TV Express, with later additions including The Golem and War is Hell. The title lasted for 37 issues before being merged with the SF weekly Future Tense (with #13) although Rom was the only strip to carry over and the Forces in Combat subtitle was dropped a week later.