Originally the thirteenth floor had a horror theme like other scream.
Eagle comic the thirteenth floor.
It is hard to imagine this title the tower king or the house of daemon by any other artist.
The thirteenth floor was one of the stories that gained him popularity in british comics.
Weekly in the 1980s.
Before transfering to eagle from issue 128 and running continuously.
Written by john wagner and alan grant using the pseudonym ian holland the thirteenth floor ran in all 15 issues of scream.
The story the thirteenth floor from scream.
The thirteenth floor is perhaps the most fondly remembered of all the strips to originate in the very short lived early 80s british horror comics weekly scream.
The storytelling of ortiz shows the horrors faced by max s victims and handles any scene transitions brilliantly.
History max the protagonist of the scream.
Was absorbed into it.
It was written by ian holland a combined pseudonym of alan grant and john wagner and drawn by josé ortiz.
Was canceled due to a combination of industrial action and a publisher nervous of its horror content the thirteenth floor continued in eagle comic.
John wagner as ian holland pencils jose ortiz inks jose ortiz letters mike peters.
It was set in a tower block called maxwell tower controlled by an experimental sentient computer called max.
Max can trap people in the virtual reality of his tower s thirteenth floor and subject them to anything he can conceive of.
Eagle annual 1987 featured a six page story from the thirteenth floor called max and the cat burglar.
He was a friendly chatty individual totally dedicated to the well being of his tenants.
From march 24 1984 and also in eagle when scream.
The floor seems to be made up of hallucinations but when it was deactivated while someone was still inside it bert runch that person apparently vanished.
Continued in the eagle until 1987 and its lead character max purported to be the comic s editor for several years after the story finished starting in 159.
Check it out here at www screamcomic co uk.
Written by the popular collaborative team of john wagner and alan grant under the pseudonym of ian holland with atmospheric art from josé ortiz it went on to a long run in the pages of eagle when the two comics merged in the 80s.
The thirteenth floor was a serial that ran in the very short lived scream.
The thirteenth floor table of contents.
