AP evolved into the publisher IPC and the Fleetway imprint was used by them in the 60's and 80's. It is named after Fleetway House where UK comics publisher AP (Amalgamated Press) operated. 2000 A.D.You should ask Mr 9.8 - he's the resident Judge Dredd expertĪnyway, IPC magazines (which originally put out 2000 AD in the UK) decided to venture across the pond in 1983 and set up an American subsidiary, Eagle Comics, to primarily publish reprinted Judge Dredd books for an American audience.Īs I said earlier, Eagle published 33 issues after which the series moved to Quality Comics (or Quality Communications) for a total of 9 issues (the last 2 of the first series, the first 7 of the second series), and then it was sold to Fleetway who published the rest of the issues in volume two under both the "Judge Dredd" and "Judge Dredd Classics" title.Īll the issues published by these three companies were reprints from UK books - it wasn't until DC picked up the license in 1994 that you started seeing American-made Judge Dredd stories.Įagle (or IPC) owned the license for Judge Dredd - Quality (owned by Dez Skinn, he of Miracleman fame) rented it for a while - and when IPC sold all their comic book properties to Fleetway, the license for Judge Dredd went to them.įeetway is a publishing imprint, not a publisher.Nemesis the Warlock (7 issue mini-series).Strontium Dog (4 issue mini-series, although originally advertised as 8 issues).The Stainless Steel Rat (6 issue mini-series).Judge Dredd: The Early Cases (6 issue mini-series).Judge Dredd's Crime File (6 issue mini-series).Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest (5 issue mini-series).Judge Dredd (33 issues – continued, starting with issue 34, by Quality Comics).
The series they brought to American audiences included: In 1986 the license, from IPC, passed to Quality Communications. The company was formed by Nick Landau to republish stories from the comics anthology, repackaged into American comic book format (in the same way his Titan Books had been reprinting them as trade paperbacks). They existed from 1983 to 1986 and were based in London, England with product production and distribution located in Canada. magazine for distribution in North America. Eagle Comics was a short lived comic book publishing company that existed to reprint comic stories from the UK's 2000 A.D.
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