2000 AD
#2
(05 March 1977)
IPC,
1977 Series
- Price
- 0.08 GBP
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- every Monday
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IPC Magazines Ltd.
- Editing
- Pat Mills (credited as Tharg the Mighty)
Issue Notes
Indicia says "published every Monday." Cover says "in orbit every Saturday."
[The Resistance Part 2]
Invasion! / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Marshal Vashkov; Bill Savage; George
- Synopsis
- Bill Savage bursts into a bar and shoots some Volgs; a stranger observes with interest.
- Reprints
-
in Force X (Mon Journal, 1980 series) #1 (5 juin 1980) -
in 2000 AD Extreme Edition (Rebellion, 2003 series) #3 (18 May 2004) - in Invasion! (Rebellion, 2007 series) (March 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Story title is from 2000 AD website.
[Flesh Book 1 Part 2]
Flesh / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Huck (death); Earl Reagan; Joe Brontowski
- Synopsis
- A Fleshdozer malfunctions, killing two men. As Joe and Reagan head out to fetch more beasts for the slaughter, a pteranodon attack leaves Joe in dire straits.
- Reprints
-
in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #107/1 (2. Mart 1978) - in 2000 AD Annual (Fleetway Publications, 1978 series) #1982 (1981) which is reprinted
- in Judge Dredd Megazine (Egmont Fleetway Ltd, 2001 series) #4 (November 2001)
-
in Scavengers (Fleetway/Quality, 1988 series) #1 [US] (January 1988) -
in Magnum Spesial (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1988 series) #5/1991 ([juni] 1991) - in Flesh: The Dino Files (Rebellion, 2016 series) (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Story title is from 2000 AD website.
[Vulcan Part 2]
M.A.C.H. 1 / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction; spy
- Characters
- John Probe; Sharpe
- Synopsis
- John Probe dives from a RAF Nimrod onto the back of the flying Vulcan aircraft filled with nerve gas. Ripping his way inside, a terrorist's bullet punctures a container, causing hallucinations in our hero before he sets the Vulcan down safely in the Thames Mud Flats.
- Reprints
- in Force X (Mon Journal, 1980 series) #1 (5 juin 1980)
- in 2000 AD Annual (Fleetway Publications, 1978 series) #1982 (1981) [Minus 1st title/splash page.]
- in M.A.C.H. 1 (Fleetway/Quality, 1991 series) #1 ([February] 1991)
- in 2000 AD Extreme Edition (Rebellion, 2003 series) #6 (28 Dec 2004)
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Indexer Notes
Story title is from 2000 AD website.
[Dan Dare Part 2]
Dan Dare / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Kelvin Gosnell
- Pencils
- Massimo Belardinelli
- Inks
- Massimo Belardinelli
- Colors
- ? (pages 1 and 2 only)
- Letters
- Bill Nuttall
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dan Dare; Guard Seventeen; Commander Monday; Zarkos
- Synopsis
- Dan Dare fights his way to the commander of the Odyssey, Mr. Monday, to explain his fears about the alien presence in the red spot of Jupiter, only to have the alien itself materialize on the ship.
- Reprints
Nerve Centre
letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Tharg's "letter-opening robot" is not yet assembled, so this first edition of the Nerve Center contains merely his intro and an ad for the free gift in the next issue.
[Harlem Heroes Part 2]
Harlem Heroes / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction; sport
- Characters
- Giant; Slim; Hairy; Conrad King; Zack Harper
- Synopsis
- As the Harlem Heroes tries to rebuild their team after the deadly crash, they take on old-timer Conrad King, and street aeroball player Zack Harper.
- Reprints
- in 2000 AD Annual (Fleetway Publications, 1978 series) #1983 (1982)
- in Robo-Hunter (Eagle Comics, 1984 series) #1 (April 1984)
- in Robo Hunter (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #1 (avril 1985)
- in Sam Slade, RoboHunter (Fleetway/Quality, 1987 series) #12 (November 1987)
- in 2000 AD Extreme Edition (Rebellion, 2003 series) #13 (24 January 2006)
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[Judge Whitey]
Judge Dredd / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Peter Harris
- Pencils
- Mike McMahon; Carlos Ezquerra (first picture of Judge Dredd)
- Inks
- Mike McMahon; Carlos Ezquerra (first picture of Judge Dredd)
- Colors
- ? (page 5 only)
- Letters
- McGowan Miller ?; Jan Shepheard (sourced) (logo design)
- Genre
- science fiction; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Judge Dredd (featured) (first appearance); Chief Judge Goodman (guest); "Whitey" Logan; Judge Alvin (death)
- Synopsis
- After criminal Whitey kills Judge Alvin, Dredd arrests him and sends him to Devil's Island, "a huge traffic island in the middle of a vast inter-city highway complex."
- Reprints
-
in Cimoc (Antonio San Román/Riego Ediciones, 1979 series) #8 - in Judge Dredd Annual (IPC, 1981 series) #1982 (September 1981)
-
in Campus (Dendros, 1982 series) #4 (1983) - in Judge Dredd (Quality Periodicals, 1986 series) #2 (37) (November 1986)
- in Judge Dredd (Fleetway/Quality, 1987 series) #57 (June 1991)
- in The Complete Judge Dredd (Fleetway Publications, 1992 series) #1 (February 1992)
- in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files (Rebellion, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005)
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Indexer Notes
Story title is from 2000 AD website. This is the first Judge Dredd story. Logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook page, used with permission.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Dan Dare -
1.
[The Resistance Part 2]
Invasion! -
2.
[Flesh Book 1 Part 2]
Flesh -
3.
[Vulcan Part 2]
M.A.C.H. 1 -
4.
[Dan Dare Part 2]
Dan Dare -
5.
Nerve Centre
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6.
[Harlem Heroes Part 2]
Harlem Heroes -
7.
[Judge Whitey]
Judge Dredd
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Brumbaugh
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Morbus Iff
- Thomas Jan
- Steve Jenner
- Gordon Keys
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Karsten S.
- Jim Van Dore
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