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Appearing in "Robo-Hunter: Play It Again, Sam (part 9)"[]

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  • The Human League

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  • Kidd's flaming cross

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  • None

Synopsis for "Robo-Hunter: Play It Again, Sam (part 9)"[]

Sam persuades the Human League that he has seen the light and is a genuine robot-hater. He tells Kidd that he has a special secret plan to destroy all the robots but can only tell it to the Human League's leader.

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

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  • Seventy-Seven Sunset, Japan's most wanted mobster
  • Root Sixty-Six, Africa bloc's public enemy number one

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  • Ice picks

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  • Escape capsule

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

As the escape capsule's engines fire, they blow chunks of ice at Big Red One and his cronies, knocking them flat. This allows Harry to board the capsule. It takes off, enter's Earth's atmosphere and lands safely in the Pacific Ocean. Harry, Genghis and Ben are now free men!

Appearing in "Judge Dredd: Shanty Town (part 1)"[]

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  • Organ legggers

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  • Sal, Sherm and Granny, starving slum-dwellers
  • Humphrey, a red-haired child
  • Judge Salvador
  • Judge Elvino
  • Judge Blofeld
  • Judge Ocks
  • Judge Shaver
  • Judge Glennon

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  • Shanty Town
  • Infant Hospital, Mega-City One
  • Temporary Justice HQ, ditto

Items:

  • Warning notice

Vehicles:

  • Dredd's Lawmaster

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: Shanty Town (part 1)"[]

Dredd discovers that organ leggers are smuggling live kids into the city from Shanty Town (circa one kilometre beyond the west wall) so they can sell them to parents who lost their children in the Apocalypse War. In exchange for their children, the hapless slum-dwellers are given contaminated food. Dredd gets the Chief Judge's permission to extend the jurisdiction of Mega-City one to Shanty Town.

Appearing in "Tharg's Time Twisters"[]

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  • Albert J. Weems, third under-secretary in the lower filing section of the Department of Agriculture (Yeovil division)

Supporting characters:

  • Eamonn Anthrax, a tall dark stranger in a bright double-checked suit

Villains:

  • Dodgy-looking geezer

Other characters:

  • Albert's parents
  • Bus driver

Location:

  • Yeovil

Items:

  • Newspaper

Vehicles:

  • Bus

Synopsis for "Tharg's Time Twisters"[]

Albert J. Weems has a premonition of the man who will kill him. Can he escape his ghastly fate?

Appearing in "Rogue Trooper: Fort Neuro (part 10)"[]

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  • General Vagner of the Nort army
  • Admiral Torpitz of the Nort navy

Other characters:

  • Colonel Casanova, C.O. of the Roms
  • Brigadier Byorn-Borg, C.O. of the Scans

Location:

  • Rom/Scan sector boundary, Fortress Neuropa, Nu Earth
  • Siege lines outside Fortress Neuropa

Items:

  • Plate of synthetti

Vehicles:

  • Customised staff car

Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper: Fort Neuro (part 10)"[]

The Norts prepare to use sonic cannon to activate their sleeper agents in Fortress Neuropa. Rogue discovers that not only are the people of the fortress' Rom sector now Romeos — "girl-chasing disco freaks" — but the inhabitants of Scan sector are all gorgeous Scandinavian women obsessed with beauty contests. As the Nort sonic cannon bombardment begins, Rogue removes his bio-chipped backpack and enters a dancing competition.

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on 22nd January 1983. Sold for 18p in the UK.

Trivia[]

Instead of the Nerve Centre, this week there is an introduction to new readers from Tharg, complete with a photograph of the Mighty One. Later in the prog there is a page of fan pictures of Tharg.


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.