Deadline No. 10
August 1989 · Philip Bond cover · early Tank Girl / Wired World · Lemmy & Bill Sienkiewicz interviews
Deadline No. 10, August 1989, is a first-year issue of the influential British comics and youth-culture magazine, combining alternative comics with music and cultural journalism.
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- Deadline
- Condition
- Very Good− appearance from supplied views.
- Completeness
- Front cover, rear cover and contents/masthead opening are present in the supplied evidence. The magazine has not been page-by-page collated. The cover advertises a “PARADISE! FREE RECORD & T-SHIRT OFFER”, but current evidence does not establish whether this represented a physically inserted/attached premium or a promotional/mail-order offer, so no missing-extra claim is made.
- Date
- August 1989
Catalogue note
Deadline No. 10, August 1989, is a first-year issue of the influential British comics and youth-culture magazine, combining alternative comics with music and cultural journalism. The Philip Bond cover promotes Tank Girl, Johnny Nemo, Wired World, Lemmy and Bill Sienkiewicz. Inside, the physical contents page identifies five Tank Girl illustrations by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, Wired World by Philip Bond, Johnny Nemo by Peter Milligan with Steve Dillon and Brett Ewins, and interviews with Lemmy and Bill Sienkiewicz. As an early surviving Deadline issue it documents the late-1980s point at which British alternative comics, punk-derived graphics and music-magazine culture were strongly overlapping.
Why this object matters
Bond’s cover, early Hewlett/Martin material and Sienkiewicz/Lemmy interviews directly join alternative comics and music culture in the original anthology. Award Gold at 9.0 for that substantive cross-collection record; promotional offers are not presumed missing gifts.
Evidence limits: Front cover, rear cover and contents/masthead opening are present in the supplied evidence. The magazine has not been page-by-page collated. The cover advertises a “PARADISE! FREE RECORD & T-SHIRT OFFER”, but current evidence does not establish whether this represented a physically inserted/attached premium or a promotional/mail-order offer, so no missing-extra claim is made.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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