Armageddon Patrol
Cross
Spliffy
Brit Starr
Eros
Octobriana
Rex!
Robin Hoodie
Loxley
Dan Dare
Agents of the Crown
Ruth Rot
The Origin of 
ContinuedOctobriana was a superhero-type character. A kind of anti-authority/pro-communism, Russian cross between Wonder Woman and Captain America. She was a sort of figure-head for the movement, embodying all of their ideas. They believed in what they called "True communism" you see, instead of what they saw as Russia's Stalinism. A hippy version of communism, all free speech and free love. It is rumoured that Sadecky had already tried to find a publisher for his tale before reaching Tom Stacey, but had found it difficult because those he approached wanted to authenticate his story and couldn't. It is said that the publishing arms of British newspaper's THE OBSERVER and THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and also Germany's Bertelsmann Press decided that they couldn't be sure that the tale was true and the deals fell through. | ||
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It is claimed that Tom Stacey too, called in experts and tried to authenticate Sadecky's claims. The problem was, of course, that since it was the story of a secret underground movement, unless you were a member of the PPP, you were unlikely to have ever heard of them! But whatever measures were taken to confirm the truth of Sadecky's book, in the end it was indeed published. With editions following the same year in both West Germany and the United States. As well as containing the background story to the PPP it also reprinted two complete comic strip adventures of Octobriana - THE LIVING SPHINX OF THE KAMCHATKA RADIOACTIVE VOLCANO 1934 and OCTOBRIANA AND THE ATOMIC SUNS OF COMRADE MAO allegedly drawn by PPP members in the Russian Kiev cell. |
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