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Appearing in "The Bad Boys Bust (part four)"[]

Featured characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

  • Bubo and his Bad Boys

Other characters:

  • Medical staff
  • Lots of other Gronks

Locations:

  • The town of Jobsville on the frontier planet Alzir
  • The planet Blas in the Gallego system

Items:

  • Wulf's Happy Stick

Vehicles:

  • Train
  • Mork

Synopsis for "The Bad Boys Bust (part four)"[]

With Johnny in a coma after a train derailment, Wulf must face Bubo and his last two Bad Boys alone.

Appearing in "The Mean Arena"[]

Writer

Artist

Letterer

Featured characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

  • Carl 'Jaws' Jensen, squad leader of the Southampton Sharks

Other characters:

  • Kevin O'Connor, the cynical street football commentator
  • Riot linesmen
  • Alfie Bussel, a newsagent

Location:

  • Southampton, September 2021 AD

Items:

  • Huge mechanical shark mouth
  • Demonstration android

Vehicles:

  • Motorbike

Synopsis for "The Mean Arena"[]

Slater's Slayers and the Southampton Sharks hate each other so much that they get into a punch-up before the game's even started.

Appearing in "Dash Decent (chapter 19: When Hordes Collide!)"[]

Writers

Artist

Letterer

Featured characters:

Supporting characters:

  • Dale Ardent

Villains:

  • Pong the Perilous
  • King Tucky and his Pullet Men

Other characters:

  • Prince Wolfred
  • Bow and Wow (henchdogs)

Location:

  • Planet Pongo

Items:

  • Junior torture kit (extra wicked)

Vehicles:

  • Battle cruiser
  • Skateboard

Synopsis for "Dash Decent (chapter 19: When Hordes Collide!)"[]

Dash Decent languishes in durance vile, as a mighty army assembles to defend Prince Wolfred's claim to Pongopolis.

Appearing in "Pirates of the Black Atlantic (part one)"[]

Writer

Artist

Letterer

Featured characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Tuskarosa the Vicious, Skank's second in command
  • Captain Skank's 'mother', a giant mutant octopus

Locations:

  • The Black Atlantic, 12 units north of the Cuban Wastes
  • Mega-City One

Items:

  • 500 defunct nuclear missiles

Vehicles:

  • Hans Hass, a research vessel
  • Justice Department patrol ships

Synopsis for "Pirates of the Black Atlantic (part one)"[]

If Dredd can't stop Cap'n Skank, Mega-City One is doomed.

Appearing in "Meltdown Man"[]

Writer

Artist

Letterer

Featured characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

  • Snoot, a driver

Other characters:

  • Sergeant Grubmuck
  • Mugger & Son, master metalsmiths

Locations:

  • Anville, city of metalsmiths

Items:

  • Disabled radio

Vehicles:

  • Jeep

Synopsis for "Meltdown Man"[]

Nick Stone and Liana reach the metalsmiths' city of Anville, where Stone teaches the Yujees how to make AK-47s.

Appearing in "Return to Armageddon"[]

Writer

Artist

Letterer

Featured characters:

Supporting characters:

  • Robot anthropologists from the destroyed star system of Ceduna

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Prisoners

Location:

  • Space

Items:

  • Scientific equipment

Vehicles:

  • Spaceships

Synopsis for "Return to Armageddon"[]

Amtrak is captured and vivisected by robot anthropologists.

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on 31st January 1981. Sold for 15p in the UK.

Trivia[]

Also contains a letters page, a page of fan art, a feature about the proposed Dan Dare TV series and a poster of Tharg on the back cover.


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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