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Comics Revue was a bi-monthly small press comic book published by Manuscript Press and edited by Rick Norwood. Don Markstein edited the publication from 1984 to 1987 and 1992 to 1996.
As of 2020, it had published more than 350 issues, making it the longest running independent comic book (beating the record of Cerebus the Aardvark ). It reprinted comic strips such as Alley Oop , The Amazing Spider-Man , Barnaby , Batman , Buz Sawyer , Casey Ruggles , Flash Gordon , Gasoline Alley , Hägar the Horrible , Krazy Kat , Lance , Latigo , Little Orphan Annie , Mandrake the Magician , Modesty Blaise , O'Neill , Peanuts , The Phantom , Rick O'Shay , Sir Bagby , Star Wars , Steve Canyon , Tarzan , Akwas , and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .
Artists whose work had appeared in Comics Revue included most of the best known names in comics art: Jack Kirby, Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, Charles Schulz, Al Williamson, George Pérez, Roy Crane, Russ Manning, and Burne Hogarth.
In issue #200, Comics Revue featured the only English language publication of "The Dark Angels", the last Modesty Blaise story, by Peter O'Donnell and Romero.
In 2006, it was revealed in Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths that the Batman stories published newspapers from 1989-90, which were then collected in Comics Revue, actually happened on Earth-1289.
In October 2009, the magazine re-launched as a bi-monthly title with twice the number of pages and reprinting Sunday strips in color. Each issue now includes at least one complete story.
Issue #400 includes a complete index to all comic strips published in Comics Revue #1-400 prepared by Bill Slankard.
The last published issue was in December 2024 due to the unfortunate decline in health of the publisher and editor Rick Norwood.
