Appearing in "Strontium Dog: The Gronk Affair (part 4)"[]
Featured characters:
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Villains:
Other characters:
- Swamp monsters
Location:
- The planet Blas in the Gallego system
Items:
- Wulf's Happy Stick
Vehicles:
- Crashed spaceship
- Skipdips
- Working spaceship
Synopsis for "Strontium Dog: The Gronk Affair (part 4)"[]
The Weerd brothers get their just deserts, as Johnny and Wulf hunt them for the crime of Gronk-slaughter.
Appearing in "Nemesis the Warlock"[]
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Supporting characters:
- Googly, an agent of Credo
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Other characters:
- Torquemada's Terminators
Location:
Items:
- Magma gloves
Vehicles:
- Cavern wagon
Synopsis for "Nemesis the Warlock"[]
Purity Brown is running for her life, desperate to reach Sanctuary, but her companion Googly is not what he seems.
Appearing in "Judge Dredd: Judge Death Lives (part 4)"[]
Writer:
- Alan Grant and John Wagner (writing as T. B. Grover)
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Other characters:
- Citizens
Location:
- Billy Carter block, Mega-City One
Items:
- Boing®, the miracle plastic
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: Judge Death Lives (part 4)"[]
Dredd 1, Fear 0.
Appearing in "The Mean Arena"[]
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Supporting characters:
- Don Barret, the Slayers' left-flank striker
- Screaming Sid
- Mike Slater, the manager
- Ryk Rogan and Napoleon Jones, shieldmen
Villains:
- Meeker, a droid
- Penzance Riggers
Other characters:
- Kevin O'Connor, a commentator
Location:
- Penzance, Cornwall, 2025 AD
Items:
- Ball
- Skreemer
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "The Mean Arena"[]
Matt Tallon makes mincemeat of the Penzance Riggers, but is then confronted by an unexpected droid.
Appearing in "Meltdown Man (final episode)"[]
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Other characters:
- Yujees, Predators and humans united in a common aim
Locations:
- Sutermunda, the capital city of future Earth
- New Jersey turnpike, twentieth-century Earth
Items:
- Cruise missile
Vehicles:
- Cars
Synopsis for "Meltdown Man (final episode)"[]
Nick Stone kills the evil despot Leeshar with a cruise missile, which has the added bonus of sending him back to the twentieth century.
Notes[]
Published by Fleetway on 29th August 1981. Sold for 16p in the UK.
Trivia[]
- Also contains letters and pictures from readers, plus a special report on the BBC's television serialisation of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Aside from one or two flaws, such as the obvious impossibility of Ford Prefect coming from his home system of Betelgeuse, Tharg has pronounced the series zarjaz."
- This prog contains perhaps the most famous panel in the history of 2000 AD: "GAZE INTO THE FIST OF DREDD!"
Recommended reading[]
Some of these stories are also collected in trade paperbacks.
Links and references[]
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