Judge Dredd vs. The Big Two!

[robocook]

http://secret-oranges.blogspot.com/2011/12/dredd-vs-big-two.html

[Dandontdare]

Wow, never seen that before - was it ever actually used?

Love the fact that Howard the Duck gets a prominent place!

[Judge Jack]

Lovely image by the two Dredd greats. This was used as the centre page splash in a Fanzine in the late 70's, (i forget which one, though).

[BPP]

brilliant. Just when you think you have seen it all in relation to old 2000ad stuff....

love the blog mr robocook, many thanks for keeping us up to date with it here too.

[Emperor]

Good stuff.

Didn't someone (probably that Wells chappie) get a commission with Dredd killing off a bunch of capes?

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Bang. It was the amazing Kev Levell - and from the look of the block it was our Burdis!

[John Caliber]

Ah, that's the realisation of a long-held dream ... to see Dredd consign those spandex nancys to the scrapheap. I never believed Batman could hold his own against Dredd for ten seconds in those crossover comics. What a happy start to the New Year 

[Zarjazzer]

Great image.   Unlikely this would have got the go ahead though. Shame really I'd have bought it!

[Leigh S]

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

[John Caliber]

You know, I wouldn't mind reading a Howard the Duck/Dredd team-up....

[Grant Goggans]

There shouldn't be a Howard/Dredd team-up so long as Steve Gerber remains dead.

[John Caliber]

Ah, true enough. I had forgotten about Gerber's passing.

[Judge Jack]

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

Yes, thats the one. I know it had been printed in some kind of Fanzine, though the title of which escaped me until you posted. Quite rare to get hold of now, but it sometimes finds its way onto E-Bay. From January '78, i believe.

   

I doubt it was ever intended to be an offical image in anyway, though its certainly not alone in its use of mixing 2000ad with Marvel and DC characters.



Perhaps the Cursed Earth controversy put a stop to this *ahem* relaxed attitude to copyright? Anyways, a brilliant image none the less.

[robocook]

With regard to it being an official ad, Alan McKenzie says...

Over on Bleeding Cool I commented on their report of this item "...this was a paid-for message by IPC. It occupied the centrespread of the 1978 UK Comicon booklet, which I edited. The cover was a Frank Bellamy cowboy. Brian Bolland also did all the colour separations for the book."

Though it was worth repeating here ...

Alan McKenzie

http://secret-oranges.blogspot.com/2011/12/dredd-vs-big-two.html?showComment=1326181799698#c5237351234812265785

[vzzbux]

When Another World opened in Leicester (Now taken over by Forbidden Planet) they had some brilliant design's on their bags. I wish I had kept them. They were all in a similar vein to the Forbidden Planet one above.





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