Anyone who has doubts that all the subjects are based on truth should refer to our sources page for further reading. Bandits at 12 O’clock’s tales of air combat are exciting enough that even the most ardent pacifist risks finding their heart pumping.

When it first appeared in Battle comic in 1979, despite its fiercely anti-war tone, it was rarely challenged or censored. A vicious, pompous and war-loving officer, Snell treats the war as a marvellous sport and his men as expendable examples of the lower classes who must be kept in their place.And it’s why the three parties concerned needed to be ‘Unmasked’, because we have to speak out when that all-important truth is deliberately suppressed. The third viewpoint was unheard of until recent years and is still barely known today, not least because of the cognitive dissonance it causes in all of us. It was a Britain of shell-shocked veterans, drug addiction, unemployment, the ground-breaking anti-war film J’Accuse, Jazz, and….

They do not contain the later Charley's War comics, not written by Pat Mills, where Charley takes part in the Second World War. Knowing the railway was commissioned and paid for by the British government, he has vowed revenge on all Englishmen. A traumatised veteran who was the sole survivor of his platoon when it was wiped out in 1915 due to a recklessly cruel act by Lt Snell. Charley soon becomes disillusioned at the incompetence and cowardice amongst the Whites, some of whom change sides and join the Reds. Without his competent and detailed scripts I dont think such a difficult subject as World War One trench warfare could have succeeded.Then, being an orphan, working-class and Scottish (so no other options), he was in the merchant navy during the interregnum. There were specially selected pages of Joe’s art on display at the entrance to each section of the museum. Yet if I, as a layperson, have access to documents which prove beyond any reasonable doubt it’s a lie, then they must, too.