num_pages: 76
description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: Mario Superhero Judge Dredd Freakazoid! Power Rangers Nagraj Real-life superhero Raiden Rainbow Brite Solomon Kane Stan Lee Media Pedro Penduko Sgt Mike Battle Ness Pajama Sam Fartman Viewtiful Joe Red Star Jet Jungle Darkman Local hero Superguy Shadow Hare Uri-On Joe Magarac Adam Kadmon Ghost Rider 2099 Captain Chaos Ten Brothers Hero Ba-Ban Darkeye Dark Guardians Legacy Hero A-Man Super Women. Excerpt: Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running (having been featured there since its second issue in 1977). Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police judge jury and executioner. Dredd and his fellow Judges are empowered to arrest sentence and even execute criminals on the spot. He was created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra although editor Pat Mills also deserves some credit for his early development. Judge Dredd is amongst the UK's best known home-grown comic characters. So great is the character's name recognition that his name is sometimes invoked over similar issues to those explored by the comic series such as the police state authoritarianism and the rule of law. Judge Dredd was named the seventh greatest comic character by the British magazine Empire. In 2011 IGN ranked him 35th in the Top 100 comic books heroes. When Pat Mills was developing 2000 AD in 1976 he brought in his former writing partner John Wagner to develop characters. Wagner had written various Dirty Harry-style tough cop stories for other titles and suggested a character who took that concept to its logical extreme imagining an ultra-violent lawman patrolling a future New York City with the power to admini...
language: English
title: Superheroes: Mario, Superhero, Judge Dredd, Freakazoid!, Power Rangers, Nagraj, Real-Life Superhero, Raiden, Rainbow Brite, Solomon Kane
publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series