Appearing in "Robo-Hunter: The Filby Case (part 7)"[]
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
- Goonies
- East-End Ernie
- Special Branch
Other characters:
- Ronald
- Mr Filby
Locations:
- Brighton Front, Brit-Cit
- Epping Forest Museum, ditto
Items:
- Trees (accidentally squashed by Special Branch)
Vehicles:
- Leymek Hoverstreak (ideal city car)
Synopsis for "Robo-Hunter: The Filby Case (part 7)"[]
Sam rescues Ronald and Hoagy from the Goonies. Filby is reunited with Ronald and discovers that the robot has lost his ability to read minds after being shot by two Special Branch robo-spies. Ronald, however, is just happy to be back with his beloved master.
Appearing in "Rogue Trooper: All Hell on the Dix-I Front (part 7)"[]
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Other characters:
- Mad colonel
- Sister Sledge
Location:
- Vicinity of Southpoint military academy, Dix-I, Nu Earth
Items:
- Synthi-bugle
- Las-sword
Vehicles:
- Nort armoured legion
Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper: All Hell on the Dix-I Front (part 7)"[]
Rogue gets his biochip buddies to synth the tune for 'recall', saving the lives of the cadets. He then battles some Norts with a las-sword and listens to the mad old colonel's dying words. When he returns to Sister Sledge he finds her surrounded by all the cadets' bodies. She says that their chem-suits had been "weakened" by the Norts' bombardment, which let in the deadly atmosphere of Nu Earth and killed them. Bagman says that he heard her kill them all, but Rogue thinks that Bagman is suffering from another of his periodic bouts of insanity.
Appearing in "The Mean Arena"[]
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Supporting characters:
- Mike Slater, manager
- Rollo Hartie, sponsor
Villains:
- Mother Vlad's Vampires
Other characters:
- Kevin O'Connor, the commentator
Location:
- Leeds, 2025 AD
Items:
- Incisor-gun
Vehicles:
- Helicopter
Synopsis for "The Mean Arena"[]
We start with a televised advertisement for Kosi-Flex leisurewear. Kevin O'Connor the commentator then recaps the events of the previous episode. Mother Vlad's Vampires demonstrate their incisor-gun, which can basically fire a harpoon straight through a human body and out the other side. Matt Tallon's manager tells him that he thinks his hallucinations are being induced by "some sort of microwave" controlled by Mother Vlad. In a shockingly transgressive act at least as outrageous as the several murders he has already committed, Tallon tells sponsor Rollo Hartie that he can "forget Kosi-Flex."
Appearing in "Tharg's Future Shocks: No Picnic!"[]
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Featured characters:
- Oswald, a man who forgot to bring potato salad
Supporting characters:
- Raquel, a woman who really likes potato salad
- Byron, a bratty child
Villains:
- None
Other characters:
- Stone heads
Location:
- Easter Island
Items:
- Spade
Vehicles:
- Hovercraft
Synopsis for "Tharg's Future Shocks: No Picnic!"[]
A man and his wife take their son for a picnic on Easter Island. The wife is too busy reading a book to play with her son, so she tells him to play with his father instead.
Appearing in "Judge Dredd: Meka-City (part 2)"[]
Writer:
- Alan Grant and John Wagner (writing as T. B. Grover)
Artist:
Letterer:
Featured characters:
Villains:
- Precious Leglock, a vain wrestling droid
Other characters:
- 218 robots
Location:
- South sector 555, Mega-City One
Items:
- Dredd's Lawgiver
- Wrestling ring
- Light socket
Vehicles:
- Dredd's Lawmaster
Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: Meka-City (part 2)"[]
Dredd wrestles Precious Leglock, self-proclaimed 'king of droids'. Precious breaks Dredd's jaw and rib. Dredd defeats him by tangling him up in the cables forming the wrestling ring and then running an electric current from the light socket through the cables. This turns Precious into a giant magnet, burying him under an enormous pile of droids. Dredd leads Precious' repentant followers back to the heart of Mega-City One so they can help to rebuild the city, severely damaged by the recent Apocalypse War.
Appearing in "Ace Trucking Co.: Joobaloo (part 5)"[]
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Supporting characters:
- G.B.H (Dead)
- Feek the Freak (doesn't speak)
- Chiefy Pig-Rat
Villains:
Other characters:
- Brute
- Mrs Feek
Locations:
- Astropolis
Items:
- Wrestling ring
Vehicles:
- Speedo Ghost
- Old Peart the Third
Synopsis for "Ace Trucking Co.: Joobaloo (part 5)"[]
Brute punches G.B.H. through the ceiling, and then through the floor. Chiefy Pig-Rat runs up Brute's shorts, disconcerting him so much that G.B.H. is able to deliver a knock-out blow. This means that G.B.H. has won the 'Battle of the Biffos', and Ace wins back the deeds to his lugs. All of the truckers leave Astropolis. Mrs Feek is discovered in a crate in the post office.
Notes[]
Published by Fleetway on 10th July 1982. Sold for 18p in the UK.
Trivia[]
- Letters from readers, plus one piece of fan art, are published in the Nerve Centre.
- The Nerve Centre is smaller than usual because "That clumsy droid, Burt, pressed the wrong button on my word processor and erased half of the letters from the memory bank!"
- Music review droid D. J. 1 interviews the band Madness, because they are big fans of the comic. (They would later be namechecked in Alan Moore's Skizz.) Each band member is declared a Scrotnig Squaxx Dek Thargo (Thrill-Powered Friend Of Tharg). They describe this as "the ultimate accolade. Gold discs mean nothing beside this."
Recommended reading[]
Some of these stories are also collected in trade paperbacks.
Links and references[]
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