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| Striker | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | The Sun newspaper, Striker and Nuts Magazine |
| Schedule | Daily/Weekly |
| Format | Ongoing |
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| Publication date | November 11, 1985 - July 2019 |
| Main character(s) | Nick Jarvis, Eric and Vanessa Openshaw, |
| ISSN | 1741-4008 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Pete Nash |
| Written by | Pete Nash, Andy Walker, Steve McKenlay, Roger Tavener, Joe McCardle, Steve Duffy. |
| Artist(s) | Pete Nash, Manuel Benet, John Cooper, Simon Ravenhill, Jason Edwards, Juan Cabrera, Will Turner, Luca Bonomo, Joel Carpenter, Luis Guaragna, Richard Ortiz |
| Editor(s) | Steve McKenlay |
Striker was a fictional British comic strip created by Pete Nash in1985 and ran in various formats until its last issue was published in 2019. The strip first appeared in The Sun newspaper on November 11, 1985, and was published daily until August 2003 when the creator decided to launch the strip as a weekly independent comic book. However, the strip returned to The Sun during October 2005, after the comic book had published 87 issues and suffered financial problems. Over the four years the newspaper strip was published daily until the end of September 2009, when it transpired that Nash had served a years notice to bring the strip to a conclusion. However, Striker returned on January 26, 2010, as a full-page comic strip in the weekly UK lads magazine Nuts, where it was published as a weekly strip until October 2010. It subsequently went unpublished until January 7, 2013, when it started to be published in The Sun newspaper. Over the next three years it was published seven days a week, before it was announced that Striker would no longer be published in the paper after February 13, 2016. Later that year, it was announced that the strip would be brought back to the paper by popular demand, with matches shown live on the internet for the first time.