Each week on Indie Comic Spotlight Tony Farina of DC Comics News will be joined by other comic aficionados to do a deep dive into a series or standalone graphic novel from any publisher other than the big two.

Today, Tony is joined by Scott Weatherly to break down the first appearance of and the first few major story arcs of of Judge Dredd.

Dredd was created by Carlos Ezquerra and John Wagner. Dredd is a street judge in Mega City One. Judge Dredd is the flagship title in the 2000AD anthology, first appearing in its second issue in 1977. The year is 2099 at that time, and Dredd is already a hardened street Judge of many years. Dredd faced countless strange menaces at that time, including a robot uprising. A notable early case was The Return of Rico, where Dredd's disgraced dirty Judge clone brother Rico Dredd comes back to frame him. Then we have the first Dredd mega epic, The Cursed Earth, which ran for 25 weeks. Dredd treks across The Cursed Earth that is America, facing numerous mad foes to bring an antidote to Mega-City Two on the West Coast

Scott Weatherly is the host 20th century geek and can be found online at his website or on twitter. He and Julian Darius host the stories out of time and space podcast.

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