As with the previous week's house ad for the merger, the combo is pretty low key. I almost missed that this was the first combined issue when I was flicking through a stack of random back issues in one of my boxes... There's none of the hoopla that surrounded the TIGER merger of previous years and there's a real sense of 'that'll do'.
The transferred strips were Stormforce (which appears to have already been doing double-duty in both BATTLE and EAGLE anyway), Charley's War and Johnny Red.
BATTLE did continue to appear as the occasional annual and special... I certainly have a copy of a special that was published (in the old tradition) several years after the main comic had been killed off.
I love that the design of the smaller (yellow) spaceship on that cover appears to be a 3-dimensional version of a Space Invader.
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