Gerry Finley-Day

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Gerry Finley-Day
Born1947 (age 75–76)
Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
 Rogue Trooper
The V.C.s
Fiends of the Eastern Front

Gerry Finley-Day (born 1947, in Broughty Ferry, Dundee) is a Scottish comics writer, prolific from the 1960s to the 1980s, best known as the creator of "Rogue Trooper".

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Career

He began his career at D.C. Thomson & Co., before becoming the editor of IPC Media's girls' title Tammy in 1971, [1] for which he wrote strips such as Ella on Easy Street [2] and The Camp on Candy Island. Tammy's stories were full of cruelty and adversity, based on research showing that girls wanted stories that made them cry. [3] [4]

Finley-Day rose to become deputy managing editor of IPC's girls' comics department, but quit to become a freelance writer. In 1974 he was drafted in by Pat Mills to help develop characters for Battle Picture Weekly , launched the following year, [5] for which he wrote Rat Pack, [6] The Sarge, [5] The Bootneck Boy, [7] D-Day Dawson, Return of the Eagle, [8] Sergeant Without Stripes, [9] Cold Steele, [10] Skreamer of the Stukas, [11] [12] Glory Rider, [13] Cooley's Gun, [13] Action Force, [14] One-Eyed Jack [15] and many others. He had a penchant for creating honourable German heroes, including Fighter from the Sky, [5] Panzer G-Man, [12] Commando King, [12] Sea Wolf, and perhaps the best known, Hellman of Hammer Force , [16] which started out in Action and transferred to Battle after Action was merged into it. [5] Other strips he wrote for Action include Green's Grudge War and Dredger. [12]

Finley-Day was one of the mainstays of early 2000 AD , writing Invasion! , Dan Dare , Fiends of the Eastern Front , and a couple of early episodes of Judge Dredd , and became their specialist in future war stories, first with The V.C.s , and then his most enduring character, Rogue Trooper, which still features occasionally, written by other writers — although Finley-Day returned to the character for a one-off story in 2010. He also wrote Blackhawk for Tornado , and several strips for the revived Eagle , including Saddle Tramp, Sergeant Streetwise , Jake's Platoon, The Hand, and episodes of The Collector . [17] In August 2022, Rebellion published The Best of Gerry Finley-Day with a short UK booking signing tour at Forbidden Planet shops. The book includes the full Harry 20 on the High Rock as well as excerpts from Dan Dare and the V.C.s

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

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References

  1. ↑ Jenny McDade, Creating Tammy - A True Story Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine , DowntheTubes.net, 12 October 2008.
  2. ↑ Jenni Scott, Pat Mills at Caption 2004 (interview), 31 May 2008; accessed 18 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Girls and Boys". Comics Britannia . 17 September 2007. BBC4.
  4. ↑ Paul Gravett, Comics Britannia Part 2 - Girls and Boys, paulgravett.com, 2 December 2007.
  5. 1 2 3 4 David Bishop, Blazing Battle Action part 1, Judge Dredd Megazine #209, 26 August 2003
  6. ↑ Rat Pack series 1 Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine at Captain Hurricane's Best of Battle
  7. ↑ The Bootneck Boy at Captain Hurricane's Best of Battle Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Return of the Eagle at Captain Hurricane's Best of Battle Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Sergeant Without Stripes at Captain Hurricane's Best of Battle Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Cold Steele at Captain Hurricane's Best of Battle Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Skreamer of the Stukas at Captain Hurricane's Best of Battle
  12. 1 2 3 4 David Bishop, Blazing Battle Action part 2, Judge Dredd Megazine #210, 23 September 2003
  13. 1 2 David Bishop, Blazing Battle Action part 3, Judge Dredd Megazine #211, 21 October 2003
  14. ↑ David Bishop, Blazing Battle Action part 4, Judge Dredd Megazine #212, 18 November 2003
  15. ↑ Karl Stock, One-Eyed Jack: Top of the Cops,Judge Dredd Megazine #385, July 2017
  16. ↑ Hellman of Hammer Force series 1 Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , series 2 Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , series 4 Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine ; Hellman of the Afrika Korps Archived 24 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine ; Hellman on the Russian Front series 1 Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , series 2, series 3 Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine ; The Early Adventures of Hellman of Hammer Force Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine at Captain Hurricane's Best of Battle
  17. ↑ Gerry Finley-Day profile, 2000ad.org; accessed 18 September 2015.
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