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When is issue #2 due out on the newsstands?

Today!

Apparently my first delivery was dispatched on the 24th... still not arrived...

Will the Kingdom book really just have the first three stories?...

What do you mean by 'just'? That's a decent page count for a £10 book!

I'm sure you're right, I'm just wondering whether we should expect the 4th-6th/7th stories to be collected in a second volume.

Will the Kingdom book really just have the first three stories? If so do we expect it to be the only Kingdom volume? I was on hiatus when the strip started and missed everything before Aux Drift...

The spine numbers thing is partly marketing for sure. But I also prefer to receive different stories each month rather than, say, six months of Slaine or four months of Nikolai Dante.

It's too early to say for sure, but it also looks like (other than the first month) they will be pairing an older classic story with a more recent one. Stront and Shakara, Nemesis and Kingdom, etc.

I ordered on 21 August, still no delivery. Anyone ordered after me and received theirs?

Moans aside, thanks for the hero who tipped us off about signed copies and prints still being available at Forbidden Planet - I acquired both on my way home last night. It will be nice to have the signed copy in the collection, and I'll donate my subscriber copy in the hope of seeding another collection! It really is a lovely product. And for £2!

I bought a signed one online with a promise of the poster too.
Did you get a poster when you bought from FP?

Yep, they had a pile of them on the sales counter. It consists of the left-hand 40% or so of the spine art, but uncropped top and bottom.

Last one on this. And such a shame when he PLANNED for those numbers too:





EDIT: New theory: The art was intended for a 60 volume collection.

What a shame.

It would surely have been better to have extended the artwork, as appears to be the case with the Mega Collection.

Moans aside, thanks for the hero who tipped us off about signed copies and prints still being available at Forbidden Planet - I acquired both on my way home last night. It will be nice to have the signed copy in the collection, and I'll donate my subscriber copy in the hope of seeding another collection! It really is a lovely product. And for £2!

Judging by the pictures I've seen, the top and bottom of the spine art has been trimmed drastically. The bottom of Stickleback's face is likely going to be missing, as are the heads of many of the 'background' characters. Seems like a big mistake to me.

Did someone say that the releases for particular characters would be chronological? If so, does that imply that we won't get any early Slaine, or are they just leading off with a Big Hitter as an exception?

Just started on Vol.29. I have a habit of popping a spare bookmark straight into the index for the Megazine bit for when I get to that part... and I couldn't find it. Flicked to the beginning... a full index for the whole volume! Wait a minute... page numbers!

It amuses me how the Case Files continue to evolve and improve. But it does fill me with a slight foreboding that one day they'll release second editions with the various improvements incorporated (and proper coordinated spine art!) and I'll feel compelled to get the whole lot again.

Then again, I'd welcome that for the phone-book size vols 1-11. But maybe just nice custom dust-jackets foe the rest, yeah?

Was the Volume 1 hardback anniversary reissue much different inside?

Don't think I've seen Black Sun confirmed or rumoured... but there's one on the spine art!

Great cover on vol.30:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-30/dp/178108548X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JEDQS4WQ2P898NH646D2

Sorry if I missed this somewhere obvious but - when is the first batch officially being released/sent out?

Prog 897-1208 for sale (covering years 1994 to 2000), good to excellent condition.

Will accept reasonable offers from the good people of the forum before trying to offload them on eBay.

Includes prog 2000

Missing:

1207
1174
1160
1153
1138-9
1124
1076
1003

I'd prefer to shift them as a job lot, but open to persuasion.

Has Mambo ever been reprinted? Loved it as a kid, though maybe it wouldn't holdo up so well now.

I also recall a Ransom-drawn thing about a floating city with a maze. Did that ever come to a conclusion?