Mills also wrote Accident Man (with Tony Skinner) and Muto-Maniac in the first issue, which was rounded out by a short strip by Alan Grant and Simon Bisley.
as it upped the levels of violence, bad language and general anarchic tone that Mills had felt was lacking in 2000 AD at the time.
The second issue saw Wagner and Grant's The Bogie Man strip start in an adventure called The Chinese Syndrome.
The second issue also saw the launch of the love-it-or-loathe-it strip The Driver co-written and co-drawn by David Leach and Jeremy Banx, one episode of which resulted in a visit by the local constabulary to the offices of Toxic!
Issue #15 saw the start of The Dinner Ladies From Hell written and drawn by David Leach, described as a cross between Dennis Wheatley and Robert Rankin.
This was not the only strip which suffered problems, Marshal Law began to miss issues, and some of the material replacing it proved not to be as popular.
[citation needed] In September 2002 Egmont UK launched a boy's magazine entitled Toxic, which has proven to be very popular, but apart from the title, there is no connection with the comic of the nineties.