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Appearing in "Ace Trucking Co."[]

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Villains:

  • Lord Einas
  • Other Yaagas

Other characters:

  • Ignatz LgOo, legendary space explorer and crackpot theorist

Location:

  • The city of Yaag

Items:

  • One thousand dadispads of macmac

Vehicles:

  • Amelitta*4

Synopsis for "Ace Trucking Co."[]

About to be 'purified' by being impaled upon spikes by Yaagas, the inhabitants of the world beyond Hell's Pocket, Ace and his friends are saved by a billowing cloud of macmac vapour.

Appearing in "The Mean Arena"[]

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  • Slick Mordred

Villains:

  • Doctor Simon Jessup

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Locations:

  • Edinburgh, 2025 AD

Items:

  • The ball
  • Lariat

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "The Mean Arena"[]

It's all kicking off in Edinburgh as Matt prepares to deploy his secret doppelgänger.

Appearing in "Tharg's Future Shocks: Love Thy Neighbour!"[]

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  • Old Albert

Supporting characters:

  • Albert's neighbours

Villains:

  • Old Albert

Other characters:

  • Aeroplane pilot

Location:

  • Martinside, UK

Items:

  • Dissolving-fluid sprayer
  • Brain-dissolving ray
  • Machine which stops all electricity

Vehicles:

  • Aeroplane

Synopsis for "Tharg's Future Shocks: Love Thy Neighbour!"[]

Old Albert hates modern technology, so he invents a machine to stop it working. "Pah! Look at 'em! Playing with their fancy electrical gadgets. I hate 'em! I hate 'em all!"

Appearing in "Judge Dredd: Block Mania (part 7)"[]

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  • Atlantic purification plant, East sector 29, Mega-City One
  • Booker T. Parkway

Items:

  • Orlok's satellat

Vehicles:

  • Sludgetruk

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: Block Mania (part 7)"[]

Orlok kills Judge Giant.

Appearing in "Tharg's Future Shocks: Mister, Could You Use a Squonge?"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Squonges, "useless blobs of gloop"

Supporting characters:

  • Milton Grozinski, a child

Villains:

  • Human gullibility

Other characters:

  • Hucklebun, an astronaut

Locations:

  • Earth

Items:

  • Jellybeans

Vehicles:

  • Starprobe

Synopsis for "Tharg's Future Shocks: Mister, Could You Use a Squonge?"[]

Humanity makes contact with sponge-shaped alien life-forms that can enhance the intellect.

Appearing in "Rogue Trooper"[]

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Other characters:

  • None

Location:

Items:

  • Mysterious plant

Vehicles:

  • Nort flier
  • Nort speeders

Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper"[]

Rogue is poisoned by a Nu Earth plant unknown to science.

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on 12th December 1981. Sold for 16p in the UK.

Trivia[]

  • Also contains letters and pictures from readers.
  • There is a 'star pin-up' of Starlord on the back cover (see Starlord's gallery).


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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