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If you're not sure where to start, here are a few places to look. (These are personal recommendations, rather than the most popular articles.)

• Ultimate interview
  Ultimate's first interview with the computing press, in which the terrible truth about the Lunar Jetman trailer is revealed...

  
  

• Unreleased software
  A number of games made it as far as a preview or even a review in CRASH, but were never released.

  • Great Giana Sisters review
    The Great Giana Sisters was completed and sent for review but, due to legal action, never made it to the shops. Read the review here.
  • Solar Jetman preview
    Solar Jetman (eventually an NES game) did have a start on the Spectrum, but was never released. See how it might have looked...
  
  

• CRASH fiction

  • Jetman **COMPLETE**
    The Jetman strip ran for almost the whole lifetime of CRASH, featuring the exploits of the universe's least heroic hero and his quest for the Eye of Oktup. The Jetman scans are now complete; there is also an interview with the author, John Richardson, on this site.
  • The Terminal Man **COMPLETE**
    The Terminal Man ran in two sections, the first during the early days of CRASH, and the second during 1987. All scans are now available in the WoS archive and linked to from the appropriate issue.
    
  • Tamara Knight **COMPLETE**
    Mel Croucher's pun-packed story was terminated prematurely in CRASH, being cut after the first seven episodes due to poor reader response. The final two parts were, however, published in CRASH's sister magazine, ZZAP!, from where they have been rescued...
    • Part 1 (issue 36)
    • Part 2 (issue 36)
    • Part 3 (issue 37)
    • Part 4 (issue 38)
    • Part 5 (issue 39)
    • Part 6 (issue 40)
    • Part 7 (issue 41)
    • Part 8 ("issue 99")
    • Part 9 ("issue 99")
  • King Grub
    King Grub was a series of cartoons, most of which are credited to "Markie" (Mark Kendrick) and "Gordini".

• Artwork
  In addition to many smaller pieces of artwork scattered throughout the magazines, you can see a colelction of covers and supplment covers and in addition posters and calendars. Most of these (with the exception of a few covers) are by Oli Frey.

• Sinclair history
  A comprehensive look at the history of Sinclair products: a five-part series from the early days of CRASH, supplemented by some later articles on hardware.

  • Part one: the early days in Radionics
  • Part two: the MK14, ZX80/81, and the Spectrum
  • Part three: the Interface One
  • Part four: the pocket TV
  • Part five: the C5
  • The 128K Spectrum
  • The Z88
  • Spectrum +3
  
  

• Mel Croucher interview
  In which Mel talks about Deus, ID, and the PiMan...

• Ritman and Drummond
  The team behind Match Day, Batman, and Head over Heels interviewed in issues 33 and 38...

• Lloyd Mangram's lookbacks
  Lloyd regularly reviewed the year's software and events, generally concluding that licensed games and tie-ins were taking over the industry:
  [1984] [1985] [1986] [1987] [1988]

• Unclear User
  In 1985 CRASH published a four-page spoof of SU. Legal action meant that the issue was withdrawn while the pages were removed, but many CRASH readers did end up with copies.

• The Imagine collapse
  Details of the Imagine fiasco