Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection

Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection is a fortnightly partwork collection of hardback books published by Hachette Partworks. The series is made up of 80 volumes which contain thematic collections of stories about 2000 AD's Judge Dredd and related characters,^[1] as well as bonus material including previously unpublished art.^[2] The spine art on the books combine to display a new image by artist Patrick Goddard. The series was also accompanied by the launch of a series of podcasts called '2000 AD Thrill-Casts' which, after the 6th episode, widened its focus to 2000 AD in general.^[3]

The series is the third recent comics series by Hachette Partworks. It follows the success of The Official Marvel Graphic Novel Collection and Marvel's Mightiest Heroes Graphic Novel Collection and is the first which departs from Marvel comics. It is available in the UK, Ireland and Australia.

List of books

The following books are those confirmed by Hachette. "Issue" refers to the order of publication, and "Volume" refers to the order in which the books are intended to be kept once the 80-volume collection is complete.^[4]

Issue	Volume	Title	Collecting	Cover Artist	UK Release Date[notes 1]	AU/NZ Release Date
01	01	America[5]	America, The Fading of Light, Cadet, Judgement Call, Blood and Duty, Firepower and Snowstorm[6]	Colin MacNeil	January 21, 2015	August 6, 2015
02	24	Mechanismo	Mechanismo, Mechanismo Returns, Body Count, S.A.M. and Safe Hands[7]	Colin MacNeil[notes 2]	February 4, 2015	August 13, 2015
03	36	The Apocalypse War	Block Mania and The Apocalypse War	Carlos Ezquerra[8]	February 15, 2015	August 20, 2015
04	45	Origins	The Connection, Origins and The Spirit of Christmas	Brian Bolland[9]	March 4, 2015	September 1, 2015
05[10]	10	Psi-Judge Anderson: Shamballa	Shamballa, The Jesus Syndrome, Satan, The Protest and R*evolution	Arthur Ranson[11]	March 15, 2015	September 17, 2015
06[10]	25	Mandroid	Mandroid, Mandroid: Instrument of War, Escape From Atlantis and Bad Mother	Kev Walker[12]	April 1, 2015	October 1, 2015
07[13]	55	The Heavy Mob	Holocaust 12, Brit-Cit Brute, Wynter, Father Earth, Debris and Warzone	Dylan Teague[14]	April 15, 2015	October 12, 2015
08[13]	32	The Cursed Earth	The Cursed Earth and Last of the Bad Guys	Mike McMahon[15]	April 29, 2015	October 29, 2015
09[16]	14	Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood	Swimming in Blood, Brief Encounter, Red Tide and Bite Fight	Cliff Robinson[17]	May 13, 2015	November 12, 2015
10[18]	61	Shimura	Outcast, Fearful Symmetry, Chambara, The Transcendental Assassin, Heavy Metal, Assassins, Dragon Fire, Web, Ronin Breed, Scary Monsters, The Harder They Come and Angels of Death[18]	Colin MacNeil[19]	May 27, 2015	November 26, 2015
11[20]	49	Day of Chaos: The Fourth Faction	The Skinning Room, The Further Dastardly Deeds of PJ Maybe, Nadia, The Fourth Faction, Elusive, The Assassination List.	Henry Flint[21]	June 10, 2015	December 10, 2015
12[22]	02	Democracy Now!	Letter from a Democrat, Revolution, The Devil You Know, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Politics, Raider, SABs, Direct Action, John Cassavetes is Dead, Mega- City Confidential.	John Higgins[23]	June 24, 2015	December 24, 2015
13[22]	60	Hondo City Justice	Our Man in Hondo, Shimura, Babes with Big Bazookas, Executioner, Deus X, Hondo-City Justice, Project Behemoth, Revenge of the 47 Ronin.	Cliff Robinson[24]	July 15, 2015	January 7, 2016
14[25]	08	Psi-Judge Anderson: The Possessed	The Possessed,Hour of the Wolf, Contact, Beyond the Void, Helios.	Brett Ewins[26]	July 15, 2015	January 14, 2016
15[27]	75	Alien Nations	Raptaur, Raptaur Returns, Skar, The Alien Way, Howler, Prey, Alien Wedding, He Came From Outer Space, Alien Town's Burning.	Cliff Robinson[28]	August 15, 2015	January 28, 2016
16[27]	42	Doomsday For Dredd	Beyond The Call Of Duty, Return of the Assassin, The Trial, Trial of Strength, War Games, Endgame.	Dylan Teague[29]	August 19, 2015	February 11, 2016
17[27]	31	Oz	Oz	Steve Dillon[30]	September 2, 2015	February 25, 2016
18[27]	50	Day of Chaos: Endgame	Eve of Destruction; Tea for Two; Wot I Did During the Worst Dissaster in Mega-City History; Chaos Day; The Days After; Wastelands	Henry Flint[31]	September 16, 2015	March 10, 2016
19[27]	03	Total War	Terror; Total War; After the Bombs; Visiting Hour; The Searchers; Horror in Emergency Camp 4	Simon Coleby [32]	September 30, 2015	March 24, 2016
20[27]	21	The Simping Detective	Crystal Blue, Innocence: A Broad, Dorks of War, Playing Futsie, Fifteen, Petty Crimes, No Body, No How. Demarco, P.I. Ways to Die. Demarco, P.I. Dep Blue Death and Demarco, P.I. The Fierce and the Furious.	Cliff Robinson[33]	October 14, 2015	April 7, 2016
21[27]	04	The Dead Man	The Dead Man, Bloodline,[notes 3] The Shooting Match, A Letter to Judge Dredd, Tale of the Dead Man,[notes 4] Nightmares	John Ridgway[34]	October 28, 2015	April 21, 2016
22[27]	30	Target: Judge Dredd	The Fists of Stan Lee, The Return of Death Fist, The Art of Geomancy, Fight, Enter Jonni Kiss, Goodnight Kiss, The Brainstem Man, The Man Who Broke the Law, Hitman, Missing	Jim Baikie[35]	November 11, 2015	May 5, 2016
23[27]	15	Devlin Waugh: Chasing Herod	Chasing Herod: Prologue, Chasing Herod, Reign of Frogs: Prologue, Reign of Frogs, Sirius Rising, Innocence & Experience	Colin Wilson[36]	November 25, 2015	May 19, 2016
24[37]	51	Trifecta	The Family Man, Bullet to King Four, The Simping Detective: Jokers to the Right, Low Life: Saudade, The Cold Deck, Trifecta	Carl Critchlow[38]	December 9, 2015	June 2, 2016
25[37]	37	Judgement Day	Top Dogs, Judgment Day (from Progs 786-799), Judgment Day (from Judge Dredd Megazine 2.04-2.09), The Kinda Dead Man	Carlos Ezquerra	December 23, 2015	June 16, 2016
26[37]	19	Low Life: Paranoia	Paranoia, Heavy Duty, Rock and a Hard Place, He's Making a List…, Con Artist, Baby Talk, War Without Bloodshed.	Henry Flint[39]	January 6, 2016	June 30, 2016
27	67	Cursed Earth Koburn	Sturm Und Dang, Kuss Hard, Burial Party, The Assizes, Malachi, El Maldito.	Carlos Ezquerra [40]	January 20, 2016	July 14, 2016
28	56	Beyond Mega-City One	Atlantis; Emerald Isle; Book of the Dead; Gulag; Regime Change	Brendan McCarthy[41]	February 3, 2016	July 21, 2016
29	44	Satan's Island	Sin City; Case for the Defence; Reprisal; Jumped; Lawcon[notes 5]	Kev Walker[42]	February 17, 2016	August 4, 2016
30	76[43]	Klegg Hai!	Maelstrom; The Corps; The Kleggs!; Meatmonger; Love Hurts!; Scavengers; The Heart is a Lonely Klegg Hunter; Trapper Hag; Revenge of Trapper Hag	Chris Weston[44]	March 2, 2016	August 18, 2016
31	05	Necropolis	By Lethal Injection; Rights of Succession; Dear Annie; Necropolis	Carlos Ezquerra [45]	March 16, 2016	September 1, 2016
32[46]	40	The Pit	The Pit; True Grot; Unjudicial Liasons; Last Rites; Declaration of War; Bongo War	Cliff Robinson[47]	March 30, 2016	September 15, 2016
33[48]	06	Judge Death Lives!	Judge Death; Judge Death Lives; Four Dark Judges; Theatre of Death; Judge Death: The True Story; Dead Reckoning; Tea with Mrs Gunderson	Brian Bolland[49]	April 13, 2016	September 29, 2016
34[50]	11	Psi-Judge Anderson: Childhood's End	Reasons to be Cheerful; The Witch? Report; Childhood's End; Voyage of the Seeker; Postcards from the Edge; Postcard to Myself	Arthur Ranson	April 27, 2016	October 13, 2016
35[51]	66[notes 6]	Missionary Man: Goin' South	Prologue; Mardi Gras; Goin' South; Apocrypha; Mark of the Beast; True Grit; Lonesome Dave; The Black Plague; The Hotdog Run; Shantytown	Henry Flint[52]	May 11, 2016	October 27, 2016
36[53]	28	The Life And Times Of PJ Maybe		Cliff Robinson[54]	May 25, 2016	November 10, 2016
37[55]	43	Doomsday for Mega City One			June 8, 2016	November 17, 2016
38[56]	20	Lowlife: Hostile Takeover			June 22, 2016	November 24, 2016

Notes

1. This is the official in-shops release date; the date the issue was received by subscribers could be different. Subscribers also received 2 issues at a time.
2. Colin redrew his original cover to Meg 2.12 exclusively for the collection http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=megprofiles&choice=2.12
3. In the volume's first printing, this was shown as Originally published in 2000 AD Progs 650-662 instead of the correct value of 583-584
4. The artwork on this story is credited to Will Simpson, however the last three parts were drawn by Jeff Anderson
5. In the volume, 'Lawcon' was shown as Originally published in 2000 AD Progs 3.76-3.79 instead of the correct value of Judge Dredd Megazine 3.76-3.79
6. The Facebook page had referred to Missionary Man: Goin' South as being volume 65, but when published it was in fact volume 66

Issues not formally confirmed by publisher

The publisher has made it clear they do not want future numbered issues that are unconfirmed added to the above table, however below are details that have leaked out through text pages in already published issues as well as via the Facebook page.

• Vol 29 / Issue 79 will focus on Chopper,^[57] Vol 54 will be Insurrection^[58] and Vol 68 will feature Sleaze 'n' Ryder.^[59]
• The Facebook page confirms The Day the Law Died as Vol 33 / Issue 41 ^[60] which will also include Helter Skelter. ^[61]
• There will be a Fatties Collection called Fast Food, there will be two volumes of Detective Judge Armitage^[62] and three Missionary Man volumes being 64, 65 & 66.^[63]
• The "separate and aggressive Dredd world"^[64] of Heavy Metal Dredd will be Vol 73 and Vol 74 will be called Famous Monsters.^[62]
• A posting on 8 July confirmed a Mean Machine collection including The Three Amigos.^[27]
• The Judge Child & City of the Damned are part of the collection but will not be seen until near the end of the run, being issues 69 & 74 respectively. Charting forward, those issues should appear on 30 August & 8 November 2017.^[65]
• The original Wally Squad story by Brett Ewins will feature in Vol 18 / Issue 60: Undercover Brothers along with others including Lenny Zero.^[66]
• Vol 80 is called Dark Side of the Moon, featuring stories set on Luna-1. It will include half a dozen strips from early progs when Dredd briefly became Luna-1 marshal.^[67]
• After some discussion on the possibility of a Collection Index, the Facebook page shared a spreadsheet of the first 25 volumes.^[68] This adds the following new information: Young Death (Vol 7 / Issue 46), Psi-Judge Anderson: Engram (Vol 9 / Issue 51), Psi-Judge Anderson: Half Life (Vol 12 / Issue 42), Stars of Psi Division (Vol 13 / Issue 78), Fetish (Vol 16 / Issue 50), Weird Science (Vol 17 / Issue 75), Independent Operators (Vol 22 / Issue 72) & Banzai Battalion (Vol 23 / Issue 52).
• Wilderlands is coming in Vol 39, ^[69] the Cal Hab stories will be in Vol 57, ^[70] and Mark Millar's Red Razors character will appear in Vol 59. ^[71]
• Psi-Judge Anderson: The Jesus Syndrome will be in volume 10 ^[72]

References

1. http://www.judgedreddcollection.com/
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-30402725
3. https://soundcloud.com/2000-ad http://www.judgedreddcollection.com/2000-ad-thrill-cast/
4. http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2014/upcoming-new-year-new-dredd-hardback-collections/ http://www.2000adonline.com/news/21-01-2015/megacollection/
5. http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/books-poetry/graphic-content-a-sense-of-dredd-on-rereading-wagner-and-macneil-s-america.1422871513
6. https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/judge-dredd-mega-collection-issue-1-21st-january-2015-includes-preview-pages/
7. https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/judge-dredd-mega-collection-issue-2-4th-february-2015-includes-preview-pages/
8. opening splash to prog 245
9. cover to prog 1505 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1505
10. http://www.judgedreddcollection.com/judge-dredd-the-mega-collection-issues-5-6-exclusive-reveal/
11. cover to first reprint of Shamballa http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=gnprofiles&choice=shamball
12. panel from Mandroid
13. http://www.judgedreddcollection.com/mega-exclusive-issues-7-8-revealed
14. cover to 2000AD Extreme Edition 17 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=profiles&choice=extreme17
15. Cover to prog 85 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=85
16. https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/judge-dredd-mega-collection-issue-9-13th-april-2015-includes-preview-pages/
17. cover to Meg 201 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=megprofiles&choice=201
19. Panel from Outcast
20. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1596388573952278
21. http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1763
22. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1598480200409782:0
23. story panel from Revolution part 3
24. http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=megprofiles&choice=324
25. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1608914319366370?comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22O%22%7D
26. Cover to prog 472 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=472
27. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1611307249127077
28. cover to prog 1604 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1604
29. cover to prog 1162 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1162
30. final page of Oz part 9
31. final story panel from Chaos Day prog 1788
32. Cover to Prog 1417 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1417
33. cover to prog 1804 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1804
34. panel from Part 5 of The Dead Man
35. Story page from Hitman part 1 prog 571
36. Cover to Prog 1173 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1173
37. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1637084306549371
38. splash page from prog 1812 http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=997070
39. story panel from LowLife: Paranoia 2000AD prog 1387
40. cover to Magazine 221 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=megprofiles&choice=221
41. Cover to prog 488 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=488
42. Cover to prog 1289 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1289
43. https://twitter.com/westonfront/status/699938588167958529
44. panel from The Heart is a Lonely Klegg Hunter http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp2013/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1889-dredd2.jpg
45. commission based off cover to prog 281 https://2000ad.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/dredd-vs-the-dark-judges/
46. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1685606438363824
47. Cover to prog 974 http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=974
48. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1680982558826212
49. https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/450360031466124078/
50. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1685606438363824
51. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1691054761152325
52. Story panel from Prog 1124
53. https://m.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/photos/a.1523545327903270.1073741828.1517847991806337/1700179800239821/?type=3&source=48
54. Cover to 2000AD Extreme Edition issue 2 http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=extreme2&Comic=reprints
55. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1626782510912884
56. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/photos/p.1652688321655636/1652688321655636/
57. Intro to volume 31
58. Intro to Volume 55
59. Nick Percival Interview Volume 55
60. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1671787539745714
61. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1668545723403229
62. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1625910627666739%22
63. intro to Volume 66
64. Editor Steve MacManus, quoted in John Hicklenton's afterword to the 2009 trade paperback Heavy Metal Dredd
65. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1644486652475803
66. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1644948129096322
67. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1647944822129986
68. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/photos/p.1652688321655636/1652688321655636/
69. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1664708517120283
70. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1664708517120283
71. https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1667423076848827
72. Introduction to volume 11 (Psi-Judge Anderson: Childhood's End)

External links

• Official website