Deadline No. 11
1st Birthday Issue · September 1989 · Steve Dillon cover · Tank Girl / Steve Bell / Zeke Manyika / Cud
Deadline No. 11, September 1989, is the magazine’s explicitly billed first-birthday issue, preserving the early cultural ecology of the influential British comics-and-music anthology one year into its run.
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- Deadline
- Condition
- Very Good−
- Completeness
- Main magazine appears intact from supplied evidence; front cover, rear cover and contents/masthead page are present. Full page-by-page collation has not been performed. The cover advertises “FREE RECORD OFFERS!”, but current evidence does not establish a separately bundled record as an original component of every copy, so no missing record is asserted.
- Date
- September 1989
Catalogue note
Deadline No. 11, September 1989, is the magazine’s explicitly billed first-birthday issue, preserving the early cultural ecology of the influential British comics-and-music anthology one year into its run. Steve Dillon provides the cover and co-edits with Brett Ewins. Inside are early Tank Girl material by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, Philip Bond’s Wired World and Hot Triggers, Peter Milligan / Dillon / Ewins Johnny Nemo, and interviews or features on political cartoonist Steve Bell, Cud and Zeke Manyika. As an original first-year Deadline object, it records the point where alternative British comics, indie music and youth-culture publishing were being deliberately fused in one monthly title.
Why this object matters
The Dillon/Ewins first-birthday issue preserves substantial original Tank Girl, Bond and Johnny Nemo work alongside political-cartoon and music testimony. Retain Gold at 9.0 for the creative ecology, not merely the anniversary label.
Evidence limits: Main magazine appears intact from supplied evidence; front cover, rear cover and contents/masthead page are present. Full page-by-page collation has not been performed. The cover advertises “FREE RECORD OFFERS!”, but current evidence does not establish a separately bundled record as an original component of every copy, so no missing record is asserted.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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