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Appearing in "Invasion!"[]

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Villains:

  • Field Marshal Zinski (dies)
  • Other Volgans
  • Traitor

Other characters:

  • Resistance fighters

Locations:

  • Paddington station
  • A level crossing
  • The Isle of Dogs

Items:

  • RPG launcher

Vehicles:

  • Train
  • Armoured cars
  • Savage's van

Synopsis for "Invasion!"[]

Bill Savage uses the signals of a level crossing to make a train full of Volgans crash into an armoured car which is also full of Volgans, including the head of the Volgan army, Field Marshal Zinski. Volgan gun ships full of 'Spyder troops' arrive. Half of Savage's resistance fighters die, but Savage uses an RPG to take out one of the gun ships and in the confusion he and the rest of the team escape. Back at their base, they discover that the Spyder troops turned up because one of the resistance is a traitor. He confesses and Savage says that he will be given a fair trial before being executed.

Appearing in "Flesh"[]

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  • The past

Items:

  • Wrist TV

Vehicles:

  • Fleshdozers

Synopsis for "Flesh"[]

The dinosaur herders outside Carver City, which is burning, contact the Flesh Controller at the Trans-Time base via a wrist TV. He tells them to leave the city to its fate, so they clear off with their herd of alamosaurs. Inside Carver City, Old One Eye tries to kill Reagan but the smoke from the fire blinds her remaining eye and she smashes out of the dome in a disoriented state. The city's doctor tells Reagan and Carver to stop trying to kill each other, as all the surviving humans will have to work together if they are to make it to the Trans-Time base in one piece.

Appearing in "Harlem Heroes"[]

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  • The Siberian Wolves

Other characters:

  • An American commentator who calls all the Russian players 'Boris'

Location:

  • Moscow

Items:

  • Malfunctioning jetpack

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Harlem Heroes"[]

In the middle of the game against the Siberian Wolves, Giant's jetpack malfunctions and he has to detach himself from it. Will he end up like Louis Mayer, a brain in a jar?

Appearing in "Dan Dare"[]

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  • Dare's crew

Location:

  • Jupiter

Items:

  • Living axe

Vehicles:

  • SHARC
  • The Odyssey
  • Biog living spaceship

Synopsis for "Dan Dare"[]

Dare takes a living axe from a Shepherd. He and Monday kill the Mother Biog before she can convert Dare's crew into fuel. Dare and his companions escape from Jupiter in the SHARC, only to see that the Odyssey is being is being dragged towards a Biog living spaceship.

Appearing in "M.A.C.H One"[]

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  • Pepe

Villains:

  • Colonel Villarcho, chief of Bolavian secret police

Other characters:

  • Albert Armstrong, president of British Arms Corporation

Location:

  • Bolavia, South America

Items:

  • Stone columns

Vehicles:

  • Helicopter

Synopsis for "M.A.C.H One"[]

John Probe is in a city in Bolavia, rescuing a man called Armstrong who runs a British arms company and is being held under house arrest. Everything is going swimmingly until he sees that Pepe, the boy who guided him to the city, has been captured by the secret police. Probe tries to rescue Pepe but he is captured too. He tells the computer in his head to switch off his hyperpower, which fools the police into thinking that he is weak. Probe is tied between two columns and whipped by Colonel Villarcho, the head of the secret police, but he turns his hyperpower back on and brings the columns crashing down. This causes the entire police HQ to collapse. Probe escapes in a helicopter with Pepe, Armstrong and Villarcho, whom he throws out of the helicopter to his death.

Appearing in "Judge Dredd"[]

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  • Civilians

Villains:

  • Ringo and his gang

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  • Statue of Judgement
  • Statue of Liberty

Vehicles:

  • Lawmaster
  • Air taxi

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd"[]

The Statue of Judgement, which stands next to the Statue of Liberty, is unveiled. A criminal who has been leading a gang of muggers tries to escape in an air taxi but Dredd shoots it. The mugger falls out and is impaled on one of the Statue of Liberty's spikes.

Notes[]

Published by Fleetway on April 9th 1977. Sold for 8p in the UK.

Trivia[]

  • Under Volgan rule, a day return from London to Oxford costs £234.
  • On the back cover is an advertisement for 'Flesh Game', a card game based on Flesh: "YOU can be OLD ONE EYE and your mate, EARL REAGAN — battling it out in a FIGHT to the FINISH!"


Recommended reading[]

Some of these stories are also collected in trade paperbacks.

Links and references[]

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