2000 AD
#63
(6 May 1978)
IPC,
1977 Series
- Price
- 0.09 GBP
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- every Monday
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IPC Magazines Ltd.
- Editing
- Kelvin Gosnall
Beware of... Rats! The Devil's Lapdogs
Judge Dredd / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike McMahon (credited)
- Inks
- Mike McMahon (credited)
- Colors
- Mike McMahon (credited)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; science fiction
- Characters
- Judge Dredd
- Reprints
- Keywords
- rats
Nightmare Planet, Part 3
Dan Dare / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Chris Lowder (credited as Jack Adrian)
- Pencils
- Brian Lewis (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Lewis (credited)
- Letters
- Steve Potter (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dan Dare; Hitman; Bear
- Synopsis
- Aliens wipe the crew's memory of having discovered their planet and return them to space.
- Reprints
-
in Sunny Sun (Mon Journal, 1977 series) #39 (février 1983) -
in 2000 A. D. Presents (Fleetway/Quality, 1987 series) #16 (September 1987) - in Dare the Impossible (Fleetway/Quality, 1991 series) #3 ([January] 1992)
-
in Dan Dare The 2000 AD Years (Rebellion, 2015 series) #2 (November 2016)
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[no title indexed]
advertisement / 2 pages
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Starlord
Indexer Notes
Includes ad for new Starlord comic.
The Final Encounter, Part 3
M.A.C.H. 1 / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Pat Mills (credited)
- Pencils
- José Pérez Montero (credited)
- Inks
- José Pérez Montero (credited)
- Letters
- Jack Potter (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction; spy
- Characters
- John Stroud; Dennis Sharpe; Fred
- Synopsis
- Sharpe sets a trap for the aliens using the unsuspecting Fred as bait. Stroud is imprisoned to prevent him interfering, but he escapes and arrives at the landing site just as things start to happen.
- Reprints
The Cursed Earth, Part 3: The Devil's Lapdogs
Judge Dredd / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Pat Mills (credited)
- Pencils
- Mike McMahon (credited)
- Inks
- Mike McMahon (credited)
- Colors
- Mike McMahon (credited) (first two pages only)
- Letters
- ? [as R. O. Bott]
- Genre
- detective-mystery; science fiction
- Characters
- Mega-City One Judges: Judge Dredd (featured); Judge Jack (guest)
Spikes Harvey Rotten (guest); Samuel; Rebecca; Lawgiver - Synopsis
- Dredd and Rotten chance upon the town of Deliverance, where two citizens are about to become victims of mob law. Dredd, thinking Rotten has his back, rides to the rescue but is captured as Rotten disappears. It appears the citizens are to be victims of mutated flying rats which plague the town. As Dredd stews in jail, a swarm descends.
- Reprints
- in Judge Dredd (Eagle Comics, 1983 series) #5 (March 1984) which is reprinted
- in Judge Dredd (Arédit-Artima, 1984 series) #3 (janvier 1985)
- in The Complete Judge Dredd (Fleetway Publications, 1992 series) #6 (July 1992)
- in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files (Rebellion, 2005 series) #2 (February 2006)
- in Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection (Hachette Partworks, 2015 series) #32 - The Cursed Earth ([29 April] 2015)
- in Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored (Rebellion, 2016 series) (2016)
-
Indexer Notes
The Cursed Earth part 3 of 25.
Death Planet, Part 2: Desert Of The Vultures
Death Planet / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Alan Hebden (credited)
- Pencils
- César López (credited as Lopez)
- Inks
- César López (credited as Lopez)
- Letters
- Bill Nuttall (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Richard Cory; Lorna Varn; Mike Herschal
- Synopsis
- Colonists struggle to survive after their ship crash-lands on an inhospitable planet.
- Reprints
- in Death Planet (Rebellion, 2012 series) ([27 March] 2012)
- in Planet of the Damned & Death Planet (Rebellion, 2016 series) #[nn] (2016)
-
Inferno, Part 28: The Return Of Artie Gruber
Harlem Heroes / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Tom Tully (credited)
- Pencils
- Massimo Belardinelli (credited)
- Inks
- Massimo Belardinelli (credited)
- Letters
- Peter Knight (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction; sport
- Characters
- John Clay; Zack Harper; Dimples Devine; Mr. Chubb; Artie Gruber
- Synopsis
- Philadelphia Freaks Flier Dimples Devine is murdered by Chubb and replaced by lookalike Gruber, who's mission is to kill John Clay.
- Reprints
- in Antarès (Mon Journal, 1978 series) #35 (août 1981)
- in 2000 A. D. Showcase (Fleetway/Quality, 1988 series) #46 (January 1990)
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Table of Contents
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0.
Beware of... Rats! The Devil's Lapdogs
Judge Dredd -
1.
2000 AD Nerve Centre
-
2.
Nightmare Planet, Part 3
Dan Dare -
3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
The Final Encounter, Part 3
M.A.C.H. 1 -
5.
[no title indexed]
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6.
The Cursed Earth, Part 3: The Devil's Lapdogs
Judge Dredd -
7.
Death Planet, Part 2: Desert Of The Vultures
Death Planet -
8.
Inferno, Part 28: The Return Of Artie Gruber
Harlem Heroes -
9.
[no title indexed]
Batman
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