2000 AD
#542
(3 October 1987)
Fleetway Publications,
1987 Series
- Price
- 0.28 GBP
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- every Monday
- On-sale Date
- 1987-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications
- Editing
- Richard Burton (credited as Tharg the Mighty) (editor)
A Problem Juve Who Can't Be Beat!
Judge Dredd / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Liam Sharp (signed as Liam)
- Inks
- Liam Sharp (signed as Liam)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; science fiction
- Characters
- Moon Proctor; Harry Proctor; Madge Proctor
[no title indexed]
Nerve Centre / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Richard Burton ? (credited as Tharg the Mighty)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from Khalid Othman, Fenton Morgan, Michael Donnelly, and Neville Stanikk.
Fear of Flying
Zenith / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Grant Morrison (credited)
- Pencils
- Steve Yeowell (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Yeowell (credited)
- Letters
- Mark King (credited)
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Ruby Fox (guest); Rhys Siadwel (guest); Zenith (featured)
- Reprints
-
in Zenith (Titan, 1988 series) #1 (April 1988) -
in 2000 A. D. Showcase (Fleetway/Quality, 1988 series) #33 (December 1988) - in Zenith Phase I (Fleetway/Quality, 1992 series) #2 (1993)
- in Zenith (Rebellion, 2014 series) #1 - Phase 1 (October 2014)
-
Universal Soldier, Book I, Part 5: Family Matters
Universal Soldier / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Alan McKenzie (credited)
- Pencils
- Will Simpson (credited)
- Inks
- Will Simpson (credited)
- Letters
- John Aldrich (credited as Aldrich.3)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Max Brewster; Hellstrom
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Story title is from the next issue box in Prog 540. No appearance in 541.
Freaks, Part 1
Freaks / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Peter Milligan (credited as P. Milligan)
- Pencils
- John Higgins (credited as J. B. Higgins)
- Inks
- John Higgins (credited as J. B. Higgins)
- Letters
- Jack Potter (credited as J. Potter)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Report on the Great Discovery
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Karl Woolf
- Reprints
- in Bad Company (Fleetway/Quality, 1988 series) #4 (November 1988)
- in 666 (Fleetway/Quality, 1990 series) #7 ([October] 1990)
- in Freaks (Rebellion, 2015 series) ([20 October] 2015)
-
Corporal Punishment
Judge Dredd / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- John Wagner (credited as Wagner); Alan Grant (credited as Grant)
- Pencils
- Liam Sharp (credited)
- Inks
- Liam Sharp (credited)
- Colors
- ? (first two pages only)
- Letters
- Tom Frame (credited as T. Frame)
- Genre
- detective-mystery; science fiction
- Characters
- Judge Dredd (featured); Moon Proctor; Harry Proctor; Madge Proctor
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story is between pages three and four of Freaks. Title is from the 2000 AD website.
[On Sale at a Thrill-Merchant Near You]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Promotional advertisement for The Best of 2000 AD Monthly.
A Sorry Case, Part 3
Strontium Dog / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Alan Grant (credited)
- Pencils
- Colin MacNeil (credited)
- Inks
- Colin MacNeil (credited)
- Letters
- Mark King (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Johnny Alpha (featured); Sorry Bobbs
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Judge Dredd
Indexer Notes
Promotional advertisement for The Judge Dredd Collection 3
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Promotional advertisement for the Judge Dredd story 'Oz' starting in issue 545.
A 2000 AD Star Scan: Bad Company II
Bad Company / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Brett Ewins (signed as Brett Ewins)
- Inks
- Brett Ewins (signed as Brett Ewins)
- Colors
- Brett Ewins (signed as Brett Ewins)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
A Problem Juve Who Can't Be Beat!
Judge Dredd -
1.
[no title indexed]
Nerve Centre -
2.
Fear of Flying
Zenith -
3.
Universal Soldier, Book I, Part 5: Family Matters
Universal Soldier -
4.
Freaks, Part 1
Freaks -
5.
Corporal Punishment
Judge Dredd -
6.
[no title indexed]
-
7.
[On Sale at a Thrill-Merchant Near You]
-
8.
A Sorry Case, Part 3
Strontium Dog -
9.
[no title indexed]
-
10.
[no title indexed]
-
11.
A 2000 AD Star Scan: Bad Company II
Bad Company
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Thomas Jan
- Steve Jenner
- John Kerry
- Karsten S.
- Ramon Schenk
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