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Appearing in "Invasion!: Slaves"[]

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Other characters:

  • Fingers Frampton (dies)

Location:

  • London

Items:

  • Whip
  • Napalm grenade

Vehicles:

  • Truck
  • Volgan armoured car
  • Mobile crane with wrecking ball

Synopsis for "Invasion!: Slaves"[]

The Volgans are selling captured British soldiers as slaves. Savage and a pickpocket called Fingers Frampton sneak into the market hidden beneath a truck. Fingers steals the slavemaster's key and is shot dead. Savage frees the slaves. The resistance uses a wrecking ball to smash the Volgans' armoured car as it attempts to quell the revolt. Savage grabs the slavemaster's whip and uses it to make the slavemaster drop his napalm grenade, killing him. Back at the resistance HQ, Savage reveals that Fingers was happy to die because he was suffering from terminal radiation poisoning.

Appearing in "Flesh"[]

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  • Giant spider
  • Dinosaurs

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  • Time-port staff

Location:

  • Trans-Time base, time zone alpha-8
  • Time-port, 23rd century

Items:

  • Gold bullion

Vehicles:

  • Time shuttles

Synopsis for "Flesh"[]

The dinosaurs have overrun the Trans-Time base. Reagan escapes from a giant spider and finds Claw Carver trying to steal the base's supply of gold bullion. He punches Carver, who falls onto the controls of his time shuttles. Just then, the dinosaurs break into the shuttle bay. The survivors from the Trans-Time base escape in the shuttles, but some of them bring hungry dinosaurs with them as well. The controls of Carver's time machine are broken, and he wonders where he will end up. In the twenty-third century, the staff at the time-port prepare to greet an unscheduled arrival... and are confronted by a dinosaur with three human heads!

Appearing in "Harlem Heroes"[]

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  • Pretty Boy Floyd and other members of Gorgon's Gargoyles
  • Referee

Location:

  • Aeroball arena

Items:

  • Aeroball

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Harlem Heroes"[]

The Harlem Heroes play Gorgon's Gargoyles, unaware that their leader is actually Artie Gruber in disguise.

Appearing in "Dan Dare"[]

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  • The Skash (the Mekon's minions)

Location:

  • The Mekon's hollow world base

Items:

  • Lazer sword

Vehicles:

  • The Mekon's hover-disc

Synopsis for "Dan Dare"[]

Dare and his companions Rok and O'Grady are prisoners of the Mekon. Despite his abnormally large brain, the Mekon has left Rok's lazer sword within his reach. He grabs it and uses it to free himself, Dare and O'Grady (who dies during the escape attempt).

Appearing in "M.A.C.H One"[]

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  • Sharpe

Villains:

  • "Our friends from the East," led by Colonel Rachoff

Other characters:

  • The S.A.S.

Location:

  • The Pamir mountains

Items:

  • Kestrel nuclear missiles

Vehicles:

  • N.A.T.O. F-16 fighter jet (crashes)
  • R.A.F. transport
  • Sledge

Synopsis for "M.A.C.H One"[]

John Probe and the S.A.S. retrieve some missiles from a crashed plane.

Appearing in "Judge Dredd: Robot Wars (final part)"[]

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Other characters:

  • Howard
  • Stewart
  • J70/13

Locations:

  • Meg-Oil depot
  • Grand Hall of Justice
  • Rowdy Yates block

Items:

  • Sash for Walter emblazoned with 'FREEDOM'

Vehicles:

  • Dredd's Lawmaster
  • Flying oil tanker

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: Robot Wars (final part)"[]

Dredd kills Call-Me-Kenneth by making the flying oil tanker he is on explode. The Chief Judge awards robots Howard, Stewart and J70/13 pleasure circuits. Walter is granted his freedom, but prefers to become Dredd's servant instead. Maria isn't happy about this.

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on June 18th 1977. Sold for 8p in the UK.

Trivia[]

Letters and fan art from readers are published in the Nerve Centre.


Recommended reading[]

Some of these stories are also collected in trade paperbacks.

Links and references[]

The official website of 2000 AD includes an online shop.

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