DAILY STAR DREDD - the final hunt...

[Trout]

For example:

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/blnewspapers/newscat/newscat.html

The Newspaper subset includes entries for over 52,000 newspaper and periodical titles. The collections include:
All UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1801 to the present.

I reckon you should email a request to them, just to check on what they hold and what can be copied, then make a day of it. You'd get all the information you need in a few hours.

Also, this is just the London option.

All the best

- Trout

[Leigh S]

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

[Grant Goggans]

University libraries are another option.  I used microfilm copies of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution at The University of Georgia to view and print a big hole in the 1970s "World's Greatest Super-Heroes" newspaper strip, and I bet the larger colleges in the UK have similar microfilm archives of your newspapers.

[Sector Chief]

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

Good stuff. That's been bugging me for quite a while! Just a slight observation, it's actually a rehashed reprint of Judge Whitey and not Devil's Island.

I'd like to see your list with publication dates, my list is based on Barney and seems to be totally out of sink with the numbering system your using here.

[Sector Chief]

Inspired by the threads hereabouts, I looked out my copies of the first five collections, and tucked into the first one was the colour Saturday strip from June 14th 1986 (strip numbered 251), in which Dredd interrogates a suspect for information about the Bloody Knee Mob.

The Bloody Knee Mob appear in 'Small Mouth' (could be 'Small Mouths') reprinted in 2000AD Annual 1988. If anyone has that annual could they confirm which title is correct. Cheers!

[Large48]

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. 

[Leigh S]

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

[Large48]

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.

[Leigh S]

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.

[Leigh S]

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!

[Sector Chief]

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. 

Don't think I made myself clear, the Daily Star Devil's Island isn't a rehash of the 2000AD Judge Dredd Devil's Island but in fact a version of 2000AD Judge Dredd Judge Whitey.

[vzzbux]

Which strips are you still looking for as I have finally dug mine out.




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[Leigh S]

Excellent Vzzbux...


The main missing ones are (as far as we can tell):

149, 150 (a story about striking workers that I lost my compucopy of)
154,155,176 (first part of job vacancy - again lost to pc failure)
276 or 278 (theres a story called how the other half live that is either 276 or 278 - we dont have the other)

Also, if you have any others with the numbers on them, they could be of help - its probably been reprinted, but we might ahve given it the wrong number, as some reprints had the numbers removed!

[vzzbux]

Over view of numbers.
172, 173, 177, 179, 185, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197, 198, 200, 202, 210 to 227. b/w
228. Colour.
229 b/w
Un-numbered think 232 - Boing Boots. Colour.
233, 235 to 242, 244, 247, 248. Colour.
249 b/w
250 to 254. Colour.
263 - John Higgins b/w.
265 - Ian Gibson b/w.
268 - Steve Dillon b/w.
Un-numbered Brett ewins b/w. Begging entrapment.




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[vzzbux]

Think I have the first three serial strips in full. Got to go through them.




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