In 1977, 2000 A.D. weekly became IPC's big hit of the day, so naturally enough, rival D.C. Thomson wanted a piece of the action and came up with... The Crunch. It unashamedly stole the phrase 'Thrill-Power' from 2000 A.D. and limped along for 54 issues before being merged into The Hotspur. It wasn't a complete clone of the mag which inspired it, but it was clearly trying to appeal to the same sort of readership by its inclusion of science-fiction stories like The Arena and macho-man heroes like The Mantracker, a bounty hunter akin to IPC's Strontium Dog, but without any SF elements and set on what was then present-day Earth.
Anyway, take a look at the covers on display and decide whether or not this comic would've been right up your street back in 1979, or even if you'd buy it were it still being published today. The other half of the covers will appear in a future post.
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