Eagle Comic The Thirteenth Floor

Before transfering to eagle from issue 128 and running continuously.

Eagle comic the thirteenth floor.

Originally the thirteenth floor had a horror theme like other scream. It was written by ian holland a combined pseudonym of alan grant and john wagner and drawn by josé ortiz. It was set in a tower block called maxwell tower controlled by an experimental sentient computer called max. The story the thirteenth floor from scream.

John wagner as ian holland pencils jose ortiz inks jose ortiz letters mike peters. The thirteenth floor table of contents. The storytelling of ortiz shows the horrors faced by max s victims and handles any scene transitions brilliantly. Continued in the eagle until 1987 and its lead character max purported to be the comic s editor for several years after the story finished starting in 159.

The floor seems to be made up of hallucinations but when it was deactivated while someone was still inside it bert runch that person apparently vanished. Max can trap people in the virtual reality of his tower s thirteenth floor and subject them to anything he can conceive of. Check it out here at www screamcomic co uk. Written by the popular collaborative team of john wagner and alan grant under the pseudonym of ian holland with atmospheric art from josé ortiz it went on to a long run in the pages of eagle when the two comics merged in the 80s.

It is hard to imagine this title the tower king or the house of daemon by any other artist. From march 24 1984 and also in eagle when scream. Strip the thirteenth floor was a sentient computer who acted as caretaker of the entirely automated luxury tower block maxwell tower. 2 the thirteenth floor comic story 4 pages report information script alan grant as ian holland.

Weekly in the 1980s. The thirteenth floor was a serial that ran in the very short lived scream. The thirteenth floor was a story originally published in the british horror comic scream. The thirteenth floor is perhaps the most fondly remembered of all the strips to originate in the very short lived early 80s british horror comics weekly scream.

Eagle annual 1987 featured a six page story from the thirteenth floor called max and the cat burglar. Was canceled due to a combination of industrial action and a publisher nervous of its horror content the thirteenth floor continued in eagle comic. The thirteenth floor was one of the stories that gained him popularity in british comics. He was a friendly chatty individual totally dedicated to the well being of his tenants.