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Appearing in "Ace Trucking Co.: The Great Mush Rush (part 3)"[]

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  • Kookaratch, a star
  • Og, a planet

Items:

  • Letterbox

Vehicles:

  • Speedo Ghost
  • Yellow Snork

Synopsis for "Ace Trucking Co.: The Great Mush Rush (part 3)"[]

Ace draws ahead in the mail race by executing a near-suicidal slingshot manoeuvre around the Kookaratch system's sun, extracting some top-notch artwork from Belardinelli.

Appearing in "Tharg's Future Shocks: The Bounty Hunters!"[]

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  • Wang
  • Burke

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  • Two other bounty hunters

Villains:

  • Rogel Dax

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  • An alien world

Items:

  • Guns

Vehicles:

  • No

Synopsis for "Tharg's Future Shocks: The Bounty Hunters!"[]

Four bounty hunters seeking the killer alien Rogel Dax, a master of disguise, eventually find him.

Appearing in "The Mean Arena"[]

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  • A mysterious hacker

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  • Zlykon

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  • Reading, 2025 AD, 17:09

Items:

  • Blastmaster
  • 'Happy gas' grenades

Vehicles:

  • Police helicopter

Synopsis for "The Mean Arena"[]

Crash Crawford is fed some false information that leads to him being accidentally killed by Matt Tallon.

Appearing in "Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War (part 9)"[]

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  • 'Mad Dog' Kazan
  • Judge General Pukov

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  • Sonic cannon

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  • Justice 2
  • Strato-Vs

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War (part 9)"[]

Judge Gunton is killed by block maniacs from Sirhan Sirhan block. Weather control sets the sky on fire. Realising that there is no point in ruling a city of violent lunatics, East-Meg One sprays Mega-City One with the block mania antidote. The only person not cured is Maria.

Appearing in "Nemesis the Warlock book II"[]

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  • Zelotes, a giant alien spider
  • Skyta, another giant alien spider

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  • More giant alien spiders

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  • Arachnos
  • Space

Items:

  • Weapons

Vehicles:

  • Starcruiser
  • Torquemada's imperial starship

Synopsis for "Nemesis the Warlock book II"[]

Torquemada's ghost possesses the body of a giant alien spider.

Appearing in "Rogue Trooper"[]

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  • Souther P.O.W.s

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  • Laz-cannon

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  • 'Freedom train'

Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper"[]

Rogue helps a bunch of Souther P.O.W.s escape from prison, but is once again thwarted in his attempt to bring the Traitor General to justice.

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on 27th February 1982. Sold for 16p in the UK.

Trivia[]

  • Also contains letters and pictures from readers.
  • The back cover features a star pin-up of "a Fringe World express" from the world of Nemesis the Warlock (although not featuring any of that strip's characters apart from some generic Terminators), drawn and coloured by Kevin O'Neill.


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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