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Apparently CBO with it’s meagre 16000 hits a week doesn’t interest Titan it seems as still no news forthcoming from them.  However,here is something for you Brit comic fans corteousy of Down The Tubes: 

 “In an extensive deal for worldwide book publishing rights, Titan Books has acquired a licence to publish an exciting range of classic comic strip collections from Egmont UK, in what promises to be the beginning of a winning range of title series, revelling in nostalgia. The first character that Titan will return to shelves is iconic fictional footballing hero Roy of the Rovers, with the release of a paperback collection, The Best of Roy of the Rovers: The 1980s, in June 2008, followed later in the summer by Roy of the Rovers Archives, the first volume of a series of hardbacks presenting the classic strip chronologically from its beginnings in the weekly sports comic Tiger in the 1950s. 

Joining Roy at Titan are the phenomenally popular boys’ war-story comic Battle, the humorous, long-running Buster, and the violent and mid-1970s forerunner to 2000AD, Action!. There’s more about Action! on www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk

From within Battle, Titan has plucked some of the top strips for attention – air ace Johnny Red (drawn by Joe Colquhoun’s and John Cooper), the super cool, Bentley-driving Major Eazy, and convicts-cum-commandos, The Rat Pack. ..Titan has also acquired Tammy, the magazine home to classic stories of boarding schools, sinister holiday camps and secret agents, plus fan favourite mystery-horror comic Misty..” 

You can see the full item over at the excellent Down The Tubes: 

http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2008/02/titan-scores-with-roy-of-rovers.html