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MICK McMAHON & TIERNEN TREVALLION Cover Art MiCK McMahon His characters all spiky lines and outsized boots, Mick McMahon – some times known as Mike – co-created perennial 2000 AD favourites The V.C.s, and provided Tharg with many classic episodes of Judge Dredd, Ro-Busters, A.B.C. Warriors and Sláine. Outside of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, he drew an adventure with the original Cybermen for Doctor Who Creative Director and CEO: Jason Kingsley Magazine; Sonic the Hedgehog for Sonic the Comic; and, in America, issues of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight plus Chief Technical Officer: Chris Kingsley the mini-series Tattered Banners and The Last American, the latter co-created with John Wagner and Alan Grant. 2000 AD Editor in Chief: Matt Smith Graphic Novels Editor: Keith Richardson Carlos Ezquerra Graphic Design: Sam Gretton & Oz Osborne As co-creator of Judge Dredd, Carlos Ezquerra designed the classic original costume as well as visually conceptualising PR: Michael Molcher Mega-City One. He also co-created Strontium Dog. He has also illustrated A.B.C. Warriors, Judge Anderson, Tharg the Mighty, Al’s Baby and Cursed Earth Koburn amongst many others. Outside of the ‘Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’, Ezquerra first Reprographics: Kathryn Symes illustrated Third World War in Crisis magazine, and has since become a regular collaborator with Garth Ennis, working Head of books: Ben Smith on Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, Bloody Mary, Just a Pilgrim, Condors and The Magnificent Kevin. He also pencilled two special Preacher episodes. Original Commissioning Editor: Matt Smith PETER DOHERTY Originally serialised in 2000 AD Progs 193-196, 281-288, Judge Dredd Megazine 273-277, 328-330. Copyright © 1981, 1982, 2008, 2012 & 2016. Peter Doherty is primarily known to fans of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic as artist of the Young Death series, which opened All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced without the express written permission of the owners. Names, character, places and the Judge Dredd: Megazine’s first volume, but he has also contributed extensively to Judge Dredd, working on the epic Judg- incidents featured in the publication are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living ment Day as well as many shorter stories, including John Wagner’s classic ‘Bury My Knee At Wounded Heart’. Outside of 2000 or dead (except for satirical purposes) is entirely coincidental. AD, Doherty’s comic work includes The Dreaming, Superman/Batman: World’s Finest and a Grendel Tales series. Published by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES, UK www.rebellion.co.uk TIERNEN TREVALLION ISBN: 978-1-78108-497-7 Tiernen Trevallion has worked as an illustrator since he was convinced to leave school in the mid-eighties. His first Printed in Malta by Gutenberg Press comic commissions were for Inferno Magazine on the strip Tales from the Ten-Tailed Cat and Daemonifuge 3 with Simon 1st Edition Printed in October 2016 Spurrier for Warhammer Monthly. He then pestered Tharg, until 2007, where he was given an Al Ewing-scripted Terror 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Tale, followed by a couple of Tales from the Black Museum stories in the Judge Dredd Magazine. Now currently illustrating Absalom, Tiernen also works on his own projects, some of which involve angry puffins. For information on other 2000 AD graphic novels, or if you have any comments on this book, please email [email protected] To Samplefind out more about 2000 AD, visit www.2000ADonline.com file Sample file

FINK ANGEL CREATED BY JOHN WAGNER, ALAN GRANT & MICK McMAHON RATFINK CREATED BY JOHN WAGNER & PETER DOHERTY ANGELS BY NAME,

They were the most vicious, cruel killers Introduced in Prog 160 during the Judge Child storyline ever to emerge from the ashes of the old (collected in Judge Dredd – The Complete Case Files 04), the world! Led by their father Elmer ‘Pa’ Angel, gang kidnapped Owen Krysler (the Judge Child in question), Junior, Link and the ‘Mean Machine’, the taking him to a robot free-state on the planet Xanadu. Judge Angel Gang terrorised the inhabitants of Dredd tracked the Angels down, executing them all as the the Cursed Earth and Texas City. story concluded.

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As the characters proved to be so popular with the readers, writers John Wagner and Alan Grant, together with artist Mick McMahon created a fifth Angel known as the Fink, who first appeared in Prog 193 (collected in this trade). A solitary, odd figure even amongst the Angel family, Fink resembles a skeletal zombie-like creature – his horrid appearance and putrid skin tone a result of long-term exposure to Cursed Earth radiation. SampleIn recent years, another Angel has file emerged. Ratfink is the son of Fink, though the identity of his mother is unknown. First appearing in the Judge Dredd Megazine 273, Ratfink shares his father’s cunning and capacity for evil, as well as his love for concocting poisons. THESample FINK file Script: John Wagner & Alan Grant Art: Mick McMahon Letters: Tom Frame

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