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I can try, but its not that handy to get at...

Do you need the dates as well for these, although the originals did tend to have multiple dates depending on when they where planned to be printed, when they where printed and when they where re-printed!

Differing numbers on each strip doesn't help either, as some have different numbers to those that Ron (and others presumably) drew on the strip itself.

Any dates are handy, Large - the date I'd expect is 05.01.85, but if it shows anything else, itd be interesting to see what that revealed!

The first DSD (Devils Island/Judge Whitey - I lean towards Devil's Island, as the story doesnt refer to Whitey, or him dressing as a Judge!) was printed on 29/08/81. 

The final story (Christmas Dinner) was number 279, published on 27.12.86

While the numbering of the daily stories often went wrong, and at times stayed wrong, the numbering is remarkably straightforward for the Saturday strips.

There are at least 27 unreprinted strips.  Between myself and Orlok, we have this down to just 7 that we dont have a copy of:

176 - Job Vacancy Part 1 of 2. I have this one, its by Ron.

In addition:

123 - Theres the potential this was actually a reprint of a story I have the original of as number 70 - If you look at the reprint of Christmas Pardon in Megazine 208, its listed as 123. 123 is Maintenace Problem/Trouble (can't remember which one) and again by Ron.

129 = Rat-A-Touille again by Ron.

Thanks to anyone who can help, and if you are missing a strip or two yourself, Im sure we can help!

Hope that helps a bit and like most people I would love a decent list for all these. 

Good stuff, Large!

An early list of mine had Maintenance problem as 123 - i was thrown by the MEg reprint of 70 that had the number 123...  but I'm going with that one if you have the original to corrorborate that number.

If 129 is definitely Rat-A-touille, then 128 is almost certainly American Kneepad...

Dont suppose you could scan 176 could you?

Cheers

Leigh

Yeah, i have considered going the Library route.  Birmingham central library had the Guardians from 1977 that reported on the prog launch on microfilm, easily accessible and printable, including all the letters columns that followed. Sadly, no Stars though! 

I'd presumed a larger London based Library would have the Stars as well, and now its down to just a handful, I imagine I could do the necessary research in a day... That said, if theres a London based boarder willing to spend an afternoon on this, I'd be interested in recruiting them!

The other thing that stopped me pursuing this was a vague hope theyd stick them all up on the Internet  -i believe they've done that for the Express, but sadly not the Star

I beleive this image comes from the 1978 UK comic convention booklet

I would love a case Files or two (or however many it'd take to reprint them all) collecting all the Daily Star Dredds.

The Saturday strips would fit perfectly into 1 volume - theres (at most) 279 of them, which I believe is about standard page count for a case file.

Another 300 page case file would probably have all the Wagner Grant daily strips, with enough other material for another 2 case files I reckon.  while many of these would be Millar strips, I'd love to see them in print, if only to bring these shockers back to light!

It was indeed.  Shame they didnt get Ron to draw it up to match the rest.

Overall a great meg (although I haven't read the floppy or the articles yet, and of late am finding I often don't ever get around to the articles), but the whole Darkness thing threw me, in a very bad way. It just seems so horribly out of place and left me wondering if it's part of publicity for their comeback and so a money-led decision? This seems suspiciously like American Reaper jumping the shark, which is a shame as I've been enjoying it a great deal, so it's a shame to see it cheapened like that.

Yeah, my feelings too, though I am assuming it wasnt so much a money thing, but a "if you have to phot ref these things, you will have to end up here" kinda thing.  You need a band to photo, so it may not be unreasonable of that band to try and wrangle some free publicity out of it!

And finally, if you have strips 88,89,92,93,95-98,101-103,105-110,128,129, 178, 232-234 it would be good to confirm the details - they have more than likely been reprinted without the number, so at the moment they exact sequence of the strips is a bit vague!

88,89,92,93,95-98,101-103,105- 109 have all been reprinted in annuals/specials/collections. I think Barney has all the details.

Mega Collection reprints:
110 - ??? (page 97)
128 - American Kneepad (page ?)
129 - Rat-A-Touille (page ?)

178 - Mug Patrol - 1986 Sci-Fi Special (page 26)

232 - Photo Finish - Judge Dredd Annual 1988 (page 63)

And going on David's info over Barney's on these strips...
233 - Justice from Above - Judge Dredd Annual 1988 (page 83)
234 - School for High Flyers - Judge Dredd Annual 1988 (page 78)
241 - Joe's Soap Story - Judge Dredd Annual 1988 (page 64)

Cheers Crave - the only problem is that Barney is mostly based on a list I created from the reprints rather than the originals, and certain strips had their serial numbers filed off - so mug patrol might be 178, but could also be 180 (in which case, 178 is missing).  I just slotted it into that gap for reasons known only to me at the time!

Thats why Barney was wrong about the ones in the 230's - that was all a bit of guesswork.  I think they do have the caveat that the number and date might be wrong on Barney?

Thanks for that - thats a few more stories with numbers.  I have a christmas themed 279 and if you get a calender, 279 weeks of Saturday strips ties in with the switch from the daily story running 5 days a week to 6 days a week, and them dropping the self contained strips - they had ran at the same time as the earlier ongoing tales, which started as 5x13 weeks = 65 parts and switched to 6x13 weeks when tehy were ran on Saturday as well.

Cheers for that - no scans necessary for these ones.. Sounds like 234 is the one I thought was 241 - school for high flyers... any idea what number 241 is?

The Other half does have a dodgey number - I'd read it as 276 from an ebay auction long ago, but Orlok has it as 278, and as you say, it looks a bit 275 as well!  Do you have a different 275 and 278 that would mean this had to be 276?

Cheers again for the info

By a quickl count, there are about 7 strips unique to the Mega Collection

Cheers Vzzbux - all help gratefully received, even if its just confirming an existing strips number.

I have loads of the individual trips cut out and stored somewhere in the many piles under the stairs.
One of my fav's is the Souster graffiti bust.




V

That sounds like an unreprinted one... expect mail, vzzbux!

The souster one was set at the Dan Tanna monument. Souster had a little memorial where he fell. Robotic arms would entrap scrawlers. He made more scrawl busts dead than alive.






V

Aha - Scrawl Trap.  number 185, only reprinted in the Mega Collection... though I'd be eternally grateful if you could check your stash for other unreprinted goodies - see my thread in the general section for more details!

I'm putting out a call for help in completing a definitive list of the missing Saturaday Daily Star Dredd strips.  Titles will be enough (with a brief summary of the strip), but a scan would be even better!

With the help of fellow boarder Orlok, I have been able to piece together a lot of missing data around the daily Star Dredds.  I'm at the stage where the number of unidentified strips is in single figures.

There are at least 27 unreprinted strips.  Between myself and Orlok, we have this down to just 7 that we dont have a copy of:

149 - Strike Bound.  I had a copy of this on an old long dead PC, found on an ebay auction I think.  It wasnt one of you who bought it was it?

150 - no clue about this.  Its possible this wasnt actually written by Wagner.  The previous story sets the tone.  There was a real life IPC strike in 84 and you can see that while Ron Smith carried on drawing, he also had to do the lettering for a run of strips around this time - see Vol 3 of the Daily Star collections for a few examples.

154  and 155 - again, no clue and possibly similarly affected by the strike?

176 - Job Vacancy Part 1.  Part 2 was again in Vol 3, and again I had this on that long dead PC. If only I;d had a printer!

180 - no clue at all.

276 - no clue about this one either - It's right at the end of the run, so who knows who drew it!


In addition:

16 - is it the story "Cyborg"?

123 - Theres the potential this was actually a reprint of a story I have the original of as number 70 - If you look at the reprint of Christmas Pardon in Megazine 208, its listed as 123...

And finally, if you have strips 88,89,92,93,95-98,101-103,105-110,128,129, 178, 232-234 it would be good to confirm the details - they have more than likely been reprinted without the number, so at the moment they exact sequence of the strips is a bit vague!

Thanks to anyone who can help, and if you are missing a strip or two yourself, Im sure we can help!