Price: 0.08 GBP
Pages: 32
Editing: Pat Mills (credited as Tharg the Mighty)

The Return of Mekon

Dan Dare / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:science fiction
Characters:
The Mekon
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: IPC Magazines Ltd.
  • Indicia Frequency: every Monday
  • Printer: ?

Indexer Notes

No true indicia. Copyright notice for IPC Magazines Ltd. on page two.

Invasion! / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
Characters:
Bill Savage; Peter Silk
Synopsis:
Savage commandeers the Death Train, and uses it to blow up the Liquidation Camp at the end of the line.
Reprints (2)

[Flesh Book 1 Part 12]

Flesh / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
Characters:
Earl Reagan; Controller; "Claw" Carver; Joe Brontowski; Old One Eye
Synopsis:
The dinosaurs break through the laser fence, causing the fleshdozers to shut off as every man is used for defense.
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

Story title is from 2000 AD website.

[Harlem Heroes Part 12]

Harlem Heroes / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:science fiction; sport
Characters:
Artie Gruber; Giant; Slim; Hairy; 'Red' Macardle
Synopsis:
Giant, Slim, and Hairy tour a sports museum and meet up with their next opponent's team leader, 'Red' Macardle.
Reprints (1)

Programme 12 Reader Data

Nerve Centre / letters page / 0.95 page

Script:
? [as Tharg the Mighty]
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Tharg thanks the readers for the plastic cups they've been sending in and answers letters from Fergus Buchanan; David Izzard and Michael Jamieson. Robot design by Frank Williams.

[Stamp Competition]

D. J. Hanson Ltd / advertisement / 0.05 page

[Hollow World Part 1]

Dan Dare / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
Characters:
Dan Dare; Rok; The Mekon; Two of Verath
Synopsis:
Dan Dare accepts a job as a new navigator on Rok's ship the Titan I.C., while The Mekon and The Two of Verath make evil plans.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Story title is from 2000 AD website.

[In Next Week's Tiger]

Tiger and Scorcher / advertisement / 0.5 page

Humbrol / advertisement / 0.5 page

[The Laser Hound]

M.A.C.H. 1 / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:science fiction; spy
Characters:
John Probe; Sharpe
Synopsis:
Probe's "gotta strip for action" defeat the metal-hunting Laser Hound tank.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Story title is from 2000 AD website.

Martian Mirror

Dan Dare / illustration / 1 page


  • Genre:science fiction
Characters:
Commander Monday
Synopsis:
The front page of the Martian Mirror, commemorating a new statue of "Monday of Mars" (Commander Monday).

Indexer Notes

The 2000 AD website lists this as a Futuregraph (per some of their previous back-page items) with the title of "Dan Dare".

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