I have a list of thrills which have been reprinted but which fail to link to their originals, either because the story title doesn't match, or the original data is missing. Please could you have a look at them and email or post any you can find.
The code for where the story is reprinted is in bold.
Cheers,
Wake
Link: Lost Thrills
LOST REPRINT MATERIAL
Wake here are a few for you.
Sleeze WAS in Volume 3, No 40 of the MEG April 1998
The Walter the wobot one page series ran from 2000AD progs 50-61, 67-68, 84-85
The Horsemen of the Apocalypse
There was an untitled Dredd strip in the 1987 2k sci-fi special that featured the horsemen of the apocalypse, so I guess this is the one you are looking for.
Script by Wagner and Grant, Art by Collins and Farmer.
The Urge was a 2k Dredd story. Progs 482 to 483. Robin Smith was the artist.
I think I can help with some of the others but I haven't the time at the mo.
Sorry.
scojo
goodnight, scojo!
i've wet my knickers!
Steven l'enfant terrible
Thanks for those...though as far as Walter is concerned, I need to know which of his stories were reprinted in those issues.
Sleaze was misspelt Sleeze in the reprint list
The Urge is the the database as Perp Aid
I've added The Horseman of the Apocalupse to SCIFI87
Cheers,
Wake
qdredd35: The Law According to Judge Dredd not found in 2000AD
It was Wake! Progs 474-475. Art by Kevin O'Neill. One of my all time fav Dredd tales too.
qdredd25: Cits stone man in Hank Wangford underblock. None of them no why, they'd just heard that he'd done bad things. They are all brainwashed to forget the incident and there is a news blackout. not found in 2000AD
I think it's called Rumours Can Kill. Prog 469. Ian Gibson art. Best to confirm that one though Wake!
qdredd21: Frankenstein 2 not found in 2000AD
Frankenstein 2 was in prog 6. McMahon doing the art. Oh the memories!
scojo
Er...night!
And please get a new pair.
scojo
crime1: Block-Out not found in 2000AD
Block out at the crater bowl was printed first in the 1983 sci-fi special. By Wagner and Grant. Art by American artist John Byrne.
dredd18: Beware the Booby Prize not found in 2000AD
Printed first in the 1984 2k sci-fi special. The usual suspects in the writing dept - Wagner and Grant. Very early Dredd art by Cliff Robinson.
CLASJD2: The Blob not found in Specials
If you are referring to a Dredd tale, it may be The Blobs?
That was printed in 2k prog 290. I think with Ron Smith art.
Gotta go now back to my work.
Bye for now
scojo
xxxx
Scojo, I bow to your superior knowledge of all things 2000AD. Me, I just read an issue once and very rarely, if ever, return to re-read it. I've got so many boxed away it gives me a headache just thinking about trying to dig out old stories. Here's an idea. Why not publish guides to Dredd & other 2K strips. A bit like the Ultimate Guides to Batman & Spiderman that are knocking about in bookshops at the moment. Then lazy gits like me needn't dig through piles of old progs. Tell you what, Scojo could write em!
I've decided to go with all your corrections including Rumours can Kill. I think it was that story too.
Thanks for the help.
The ultimate guide to 2000AD is this website. No book needed. However, if you are suggesting that ever story includes a short synopsis, that could take a while.
The current thrill totals are:
2000AD - 1846
Megazine - 274
Specials - 403
Star - 330
Fan - 5
Wouldn't be a bad idea though. It would be a great help to old & new fans alike. How about it? Maybe if a few of us volunteer to do the donkey work. We could divide the work by prog numbers. Say someone takes progs 1 - 100, someone else takes 101-200 etc. Any of you regulars fancy working on a project like that?
MATT
Matt,
I have a confession. I have a few guide books at my disposal. They printed three of them in Progs 800 to 802. Plus there was this comic seller by the name of Dark Star comics (sadly no more, anyone remember them?) who gave me a guide, from 1 to prog 1090.
So when someone asks in which prog did this or that happen, I just use 'em!
I remember the story yet rarely the prog number it was in.
scojo the cheat
where these the little a5 guides free on the cover of 2kad? and I do remember the name Dark Star, can't think where from though? where they a shop or a mail order firm?
Beyond The Wall appears in the Sci-Fi Special 1986 (in your database it's called 'over the wall'), is drawn by Steve Dillon and written by "T B Grover". It's 10 pages long and the last two pages are in colour. It features the first appearance of Dink Jowett and Martha, who appear in a later Judge Dredd story (somewhere between 700 and 800); Martha and Dink's girlfriend Rosie appeared most recently in the last series of Banzai Battalion.
Also in the special (and not in your database) is a reprint of a Wagner/Ezquerra Strontium Dog story from Starlord, where Johnny and Wulf first meet the Gronk.
D, yes they were those tiny guides given free with 2k. Progs 800 to 802.
Dark star were a 2k mail order company. They used to appear at various comic marts too.
They had a huge selection of back issues, specials etc but sadly they are no more.
scojo
crime5: The Testimonial of Lips Lazarus not found in 2000AD
This story was in prog 130. Called The Mob. Art by Dave Gibbons.
edredd15: The Mad Computer not found in 2000AD
If it has McMahon Art it is either Komputel, Prog 32 or Christmas Comes A Little Early To Des O'Connor Block, prog 144. Both stories have the same premise - a computer going crazy.
scojo
Wake,
edredd29: Brain Child not found in 2000AD
I think this is New Year is cancelled, prog 146. Art by Brendan McCarthy. About this brainy kid who tries to blow up the city. Unless you are referring to another tale? Maybe.
qdredd25: Everyone on a colony ship has lied or cheated their way onboard. It's a trick cos 'hard people' are needed to tame a hostile frozen planets. not found in 2000AD
This sounds like one of the stories in the Mega Racket series which ran from progs 209 to 223. The one entitled The Perp Runners. Maybe this is what you mean? Best to check first Wake.
It had art by Ron smith, prog 211.
I really should get out more....
scojo
Wake,
When you are next in Rebellion towers, describe robot thieves, tough guy, Anderson revenge and any of the other strips in a little more detail.
Names of artists for example, or describe the storylines.
With a little bit more detail, I reckon I can help with the rest.
By the way, that present for Dredd story is from the Daily Star. I got it in one of those reprints books.
scojo
In fact it's Peter Thompson, not Rebellion, who is supplying me with US reprint scans and contents. I've emailed him some of the queries to check the ones we can't be sure of (e.g. Komputel vs Barny). Which reprint book is the Present story in?
Cheers,
Wake
Wake,
The story is called Present Day. Reprinted in The Judge Dredd Collection number 2. Page 18!
By the way, this Anderson Revenge tale interests me. I can't remember an Anderson strip with that title.
I'd guess he means the first Anderson story, where she is tricked into returning to Deadworld and brings the dark dudes back to physical life.
I may be wrong though!
That was from progs 416 to 427.
scojo
Scojo is right about the Anderson story being 'the Four Dark Judges' - it is often (mistakenly?) called 'Revenge' because the first page ends with (a dream) Death screaming this word.
'The Blob' however, is more likely to be the John Higgins story from the first Judge dredd Mega Special though, which features a blob like mutant burning it's way through the citizenry...
I think you may be right about the blob. I guess if Wake finds out who drew it we will know for sure.
scojo