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Appearing in "Robo-Hunter: The Beast of Blackheart Manor (part 2)"[]

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  • The Beast

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  • Talbot the butler
  • Robo-police

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  • Guns

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  • None

Synopsis for "Robo-Hunter: The Beast of Blackheart Manor (part 2)"[]

Sam Slade investigates sinister goings-on at a crumbling stately home.

Appearing in "Rogue Trooper: Bagman Blues (part 2)"[]

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  • None

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  • Town destroyed by volcanic ash, Nu Earth

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  • Micro-mines

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  • None

Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper: Bagman Blues (part 2)"[]

Bagman's gone insane!

Appearing in "Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War (part 17)"[]

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  • Mikhael Parkinov, chat show host

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  • Lawgiver

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  • None

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War (part 17)"[]

Dredd shoots the brainwashed Judge Griffin before turning his Lawgiver on himself, in what is probably the comic's most thrilling cliffhanger to date.

Appearing in "Ace Trucking Co.: Last Lug to Abbo Dabbo (part 2)"[]

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  • One of the crew of the Bloo Maru

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  • Space

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  • Treasure

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  • Speedo Ghost
  • Bloo Maru, an interstellar clipper

Synopsis for "Ace Trucking Co.: Last Lug to Abbo Dabbo (part 2)"[]

Ace finds an abandoned interstellar clipper stuffed to the gunwales with treasure, and Feek the Freak makes a new friend.

Appearing in "The Mean Arena"[]

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  • Crazy Lil, who fights with "raging, roughneck professionalism"
  • Brazen, a beautiful woman who fights with "grim, snake-swift defiance"
  • Shulga, the Slayers' trainer
  • Mike Slater, the Slayers' manager

Villains:

  • Allerton Ants

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Locations:

  • Reading, 2025 AD
  • Northallerton, ditto

Items:

  • Skreemer
  • Droid-gun

Vehicles:

  • The Slayers' bus

Synopsis for "The Mean Arena"[]

Slater's Slayers welcome the mysterious-yet-sexy Brazen onto the team (mostly), and go to Northallerton to play some people dressed up as giant ants.

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on 24th April 1982. Sold for 16p in the UK.

Trivia[]

  • Also contains letters and pictures from readers in the Nerve Centre, which is hosted by Ro-Jaws this week as Tharg is detained at a party on Hatfeeld's World.
  • The back cover is part two of a 'Total War' poster based on the world of the Rogue Trooper.


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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