Steve Holland takes a look back at Near Myths, the British indie anthology from the 1970s that launched the careers of Bryan Talbot and Grant Morrison:

Back in the 1970s Science Fiction Bookshop was run by Rob King who, for a while at least, was also an editor and publisher. The comic magazine that he published under the Galaxy Press imprint was called Near Myths and, while it only ran for five issues, it has achieved near mythical status itself as the first home of Bryan Talbot’s Adventures of Luther Arkwright as well as Grant Morrison’s earliest published work. While four of the five issues had the tag “For Adults” on the front cover, the magazine described itself inside as “primarily for adults although it is suitable for older children.”

There’s the “mature readers” label we should be looking for… According to this piece, there was apparently a never-published sixth issue of the series that featured early Morrison work, edited by Talbot. Screw Miracleman, this is the new piece of lost comic history that I want someone to reprint…

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