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Appearing in "Robo-Hunter: Play It Again, Sam (part 3)"[]

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  • The Human League

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  • Sam's passport (confiscated)

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  • None

Synopsis for "Robo-Hunter: Play It Again, Sam (part 3)"[]

Sir Oswald Modroid sings a song in which he threatens to deport or imprison Slade unless he infiltrates the Human League. Then everybody in the whole blasted city sings a song. Then the Human League turn up... and they're singing too!

Appearing in "Harry Twenty on the High Rock"[]

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  • Swede Sixteen and friend (incinerated)

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  • Electro-prod

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  • Earth-bound shuttle

Synopsis for "Harry Twenty on the High Rock"[]

Swede Sixteen and his co-conspirator board the Earth-bound shuttle. Harry stops the other prisoners from killing Guard Pusser and Guard McGraw while they're unconscious. Chief Thrower puts Pusser and McGraw on a charge for being stupid enough to be overpowered. The Warden tells the prisoners that a "security voice check" revealed Swede and his friend's true identities. The prisoners watch on the vid screen as the pod containing the two imposters is ejected from the shuttle to plunge towards the Earth, bursting into flames as it enters the atmosphere. Swede Sixteen and the other fake guard are burned alive.

Appearing in "Judge Dredd: The Executioner (part 4)"[]

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  • Jo-Jo
  • Dutch Sagan

Other characters:

  • Daryn Tatum
  • Treena Tatum
  • Cadet Garrett
  • Judge Axel

Locations:

  • Resyk, Mega-City One
  • Chivo Brothers' business, ditto
  • Sagan's Yard, ditto

Items:

  • Empty gun

Vehicles:

  • Lawmasters

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: The Executioner (part 4)"[]

Blanche Tatum attends the recycling of her husband, along with her children Daryn and Treena. She tells them afterwards to go and stay with their grandmother, who will look after them. Dredd realises that the Executioner must be a former cadet Judge. Having worked out that she is Blanche Tatum, née Kominsky, he arrives at the scene of her final killing. Dredd and his colleague Judge Axel are too late to prevent Blanche killing Dutch Sagan. She refuses to drop her gun, so Dredd shoots her dead. It turns out that her gun was unloaded: she wanted to die. Her corpse clutches a piece of paper in its hand reading "JUSTICE IS DONE."

Appearing in "Rogue Trooper: Fort Neuro (part 4)"[]

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  • Pierre the robe-runner (mechanized messenger)

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  • Frank sector, Fortress Neuropa, Nu Earth

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  • Sealbursters (a type of Nort missile)

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  • Nort tanks

Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper: Fort Neuro (part 4)"[]

Rogue breaks off from his film and glass of cognac to use Gunnar to shoot down some Nort missiles aimed at Fortress Neuropa. For his heroism, he is presented with the 'Legion Donor'. The next morning, he leaves Gunnar in his quarters to impersonate him (jamming the door shut and imitating Rogue's voice) while he and the robot Pierre slip off to the next sector to find the Lim-Ees.

Appearing in "Tharg's Time Twisters"[]

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  • Robby Buddon, the school bully

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  • Robby's nemesis

Villains:

  • Robby Buddon

Other characters:

  • 'Huminds'

Locations:

  • Earth, 1982
  • Earth, the far future

Items:

  • Conkers

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Tharg's Time Twisters"[]

A conker-playing bully meets a bigger bully than himself and is splifficated. At the end of the tale, a certain Betelgeusian editor delivers a warning to the kids at home: "If you are a bully, Tharg the Mighty has a message for you — cool it!"

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on 11th December 1982. Sold for 18p in the UK.

Trivia[]

  • Letters and fan art from readers are published in the Nerve Centre.
  • The back cover is a star pin-up of Judge Dredd by Ron Smith.


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.