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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published May 20th 1978
Frequency Every Monday
Cover Price 0.12 GBP
Pages 32
Editing Kelvin Gosnell; Steve MacManus (sub-editor)
Notes This issue came with the free gift of a space calculator. A detachable sheet was inserted into a paper pouch with pre-fabricated holes, and sliding the sheet up and down gives information about the planet noted in the planet symbol section.

Cover Details

Pencils Brian Bolland
Inks Brian Bolland

6 page Mind Wars story

Characters Doctor Varn; Cosmol Na-Rutha; Ardeni; Arlen
Synopsis With the galaxy at war in 3000AD, twins Arlen and Ardeni discover they have prodigious psychic abilities.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script Alan Hebden
Pencils Jesus Redondo
Inks Jesus Redondo
Letters Peter Knight

6 page Time Quake story "The Droon Have Wiped Out The Future"

Characters Jim Blocker; Marcus Geladius; Harl Vinda; Suzi Cho; Quexalcholmec
Synopsis Blocker escapes the tyrannosaurus, but starts the great fire of London.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script Jack Adrian
Pencils John Cooper
Inks John Cooper
Colors John Cooper
Letters Peter Knight
Notes The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. Only the first two pages of the strip are in colour. The remainder are in a grey wash.

2 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Hail, Star-Troopers"

Script Kelvin Gosnell [as Starlord]
Letters Typeset

5 page Strontium Dog story "Get Lost, Or That Woman And Kid Get Smoked"

Characters Johnny Alpha; Wulf Sternhammer; Max Quirxx
Synopsis Max Quirxx gets what's coming to him.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script John Wagner [as T. B. Grover]
Pencils Carlos Ezquerra
Inks Carlos Ezquerra
Colors Carlos Ezquerra
Letters Jack Potter
Notes The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. Only the first two pages of the strip are in colour. The remainder are in black, white and grey.
Reprinted In Strontium Dog: Search/Destroy Agency Files (Rebellion, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

5 page Planet of the Damned story "It's Raining Acid"

Characters Jake Flint; Stan Hackmann; Lew Kerr; Helen; Captain Roker
Synopsis Flint is trying to lead the passengers from the crashed plane to safety, but they won't do as he says.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script R. E. Wright
Pencils Jesus Peña
Inks Jesus Peña
Letters Tom Frame
Notes The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. R. E. Wright is an alias. The strip was conceived and thrashed out by Pat Mills for the launch of 2000AD a year previously, but discarded. When IPC switched the frequency of Starlord from monthly to weekly just prior to launch new strips were needed and Planet of the Damned was pulled from the files. Editor Kelvin Gosnell re-jigged the strip, and assorted others scripted issues.

6 page story "The Preying Mantis"

Characters Howard Quartz; Hammerstein; Ro-Jaws; General Denver; Mek Quake
Synopsis Hammerstein is telling war stories as the Pentagon need help.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script Pat Mills
Pencils Carlos Pino
Inks Carlos Pino
Colors Carlos Pino
Letters Peter Knight
Notes Only the final page of the strip is in colour. The remainder are in a grey wash.
Reprinted In The Complete Ro-Busters (Rebellion, 2008 series) #[nn] (November 2008)