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Later, DC Comics published their own Captain Marvel comics under the name Shazam, and now the character is just known as The Captain. In the early eighties on a nostalgia kick, Dez Skinn would revive Marvelman for his anthology series Warrior, for which he would hire his Captain Britain writer Alan Moore, with Garry Leach and later[...]

Big Ben was a character created by Dez Skinn and Ian Gibson as The Man With no Time For Crime who appeared first on the cover of Dez Skinn's Warrior Magazine Summer Special #4 published by Quality Communications back in 1982, though the planned strip didn't appear in the comic. The character, a superheroic version of[...]

As Dez Skinn, original publisher of V For Vendetta in Warrior Comic, who still has a small percentage of the rights, pointed out… So, were ANONYMOUS to achieve their goal, and all one million peaceful protesters bought nice shiny new masks, let's see… At 1.5p per mask commission…BLIMEY! (Not sure I'm really getting into the spirit[...]

If an employee's salary was held up for nine weeks I'm sure they'd act, but I'm now down in the freelance trenches… It's worth also considering that if Dez Skinn isn't getting his penny-a-mask, then neither David Lloyd, the artist of V For Vendetta and the man who designed the mask for the comic, that became[...]

Steve was the person who put that together for Dez Skinn, who wrote the contracts for it, who assembled a lot of the talent Without Warrior, I probably wouldn't have been working in American comics, and a lot of things that did happen perhaps wouldn't have happened So Steve's importance there is monumental His importance[...]

It apparently makes us stronger. If one can re-arrive somewhere, I had re-arrived! There were few people who I'd worked with over the previous four years (my short life as a retailer) that begrudged me the chance to work with Dez Skinn Some people might still believe they were better-equipped or better[...]

But I would have preferred to have stayed gutted, because at about 1pm the most unexpected visitor turned up – Dez Skinn had driven up from Finchley for my last day, or, what actually happened was on my last day in my shop, he came up and took over my day, he[...]

Dez Skinn (by then a publisher and an ex-retailer) sat as non-partisan chairperson and we set about trying to persuade the powers that be that there were ways in which everyone could make money We felt we had a voice, the UK represented roughly 8% of the US market, it might[...]

Now, however, he is going to look back on it all for Bleeding Cool. As I alluded to, Dez Skinn is known in comics fandom (a concept explained later) as 'The British Stan Lee' [For the benefit of those of you who haven't heard of Stan Lee, he's the guy who was[...]

Dez Skinn may spend much of his days right now arranging Comic Cons in the Middle East, but he's best known as the man who edited Marvel UK before launching his own Warrior comic, reviving Marvelman and launching V For Vendetta in the process, then founding Comics International. And he also carries round a rather[...]

Capcom 3 in Spring 2011. Dez Skinn Dot Com Kev (O'Neill) did all the work on the magazine, I simply looked after the printing and distribution, so that left me plenty of spare time to continue work on another title I'd started under the Penwith banner the year before… Warrior. CosplayWatch: Photo by Patrick King, from Wizard[...]

Fantasy Advertiser or FA was at one point edited by Dez Skinn, had verbose contibutions by Alan Moore and was at one point published officially by Trident, part of Neptune Distribution Indeed it was Trident that doomed the magazine as the final editor Martin Skidmore found he had to spend all his time editing the[...]