BEST CRIME COMICS

A Review By: Page 45

Stephen L. Holland is the co-founder, with Mark Simpson (1968-2005), of the Nottingham-based Page 45, one of the UK’s leading comic retail outlets.

I think we can now safely say that the Mammoth Book Of Crime Comics has been the hit of the series so far, and by a very wide margin. Anthologies are a difficult sell unless you’re McSweeneys - or, it now transpires, edited by Paul Gravett. After just two weeks it’s already sold five times as many copies here as the last three Mammoth Books combined.