(January 1987)
Quality Periodicals,
1987 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Quality Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
- Quality Comics
- Editing
- Paul Honeyford
Issue Notes
1987 Special with no advertisements. First appearance Starlord #1 (1978) [a shortlived weekly British science fiction comic published by IPC in 1978 as a sister title to 2000 AD, which had been launched the previous year to capitalise on the science fiction boom that followed Star Wars.]
Only The Best Survive
Johnny Alpha / comic story / 41 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- After The Great War of 2150 showers of Strontium 90 in nuclear fallout led to the birth of a large population of mutants. Despised by the "normals", mutants in the world of the strip are only permitted to work as bounty hunters for the Search/Destroy agency, whose distinctive SD badges give them the nickname Strontium Dogs. One such agent is Johnny Alpha, whose mutant eyes allow him to see through walls and read minds.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Characters, story and art copyright IPC Magazines Ltd., 1987.
Grawks Bearing Gifts
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Aliens visit Margaret Thatcher's government.
- Reprints
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from 2000 AD (IPC, 1977 series) #203 (14 March 1981)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Strontium Dog Special
Johnny Alpha -
1.
Only The Best Survive
Johnny Alpha -
2.
Grawks Bearing Gifts
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Mark Gordon
- Paul Green
- Katy Hayhurst
- Derek Reinhard
- Karsten S.
- Jim Van Dore
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