title: Alan Mitchell (comics)
text: # Alan Mitchell (comics)
  
  Alan Mitchell (born 1960 in London, England) was a writer. He died on 22 June 2016.
  
  ## Biography
  
  When Mitchell was working as a shop manager for Acme Comics in Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, South London, in 1988, he met Pat Mills. The two became writing partners.
  
  In Crisis, a political comic from Fleetway, Mitchell worked on Books 2 and 3 of Third World War. The story covered issues including matriarchy, police racism, no-go areas, private police forces, class war, and black resistance. Mitchell also wrote the Amnesty International story "Prisoner of Justice" with artist Glenn Fabry. Mitchell partnered Mills in the first ABC Warriors novel The Medusa War for Black Library based on elements changed or removed from the scripts. According to Mills:
  
     Parts [of the novel] are dramatisations of the comic strip. Notably the Biohazard troopers because they originally had excellent funky black dialogue contributed by my black co-writer on the novel, Alan Mitchell. This was altered at the time by 2000AD editorial without my knowledge and in an inappropriate and uncool way. It made my toes curl it was so wrong. So I thought it was important to put it back the way it should be. I think the text version is much better.
  