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and Peter J. Evans, based on the long-running British

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Synopsis

Judge Dredd must find and destroy an illegal "bioweapon" – a deadly creature created in a laboratory and designed to kill everyone it sees – which has been stolen and is being held somewhere on a massive city-ship full of mutants, in the highly toxic Atlantic Ocean.

External links

Black Atlantic
at the '' 2000 AD'' website. 2004 novels Judge Dredd novels Novels set in the 2120s {{UK-comics-stub