Harlem Heroes
Basketball meets Rollerball (minus motorbikes, plus jetpacks). Despite having no other obvious narrative link, this story does take place in the Dreddverse, as the team captain (John 'Giant' Clay) is the father of Judge Giant (senior): a compatriot of Dredds who was murdered by Orlok during the Block Mania crisis. Before his murder, he had fathered a son, who is the Judge Giant (junior) currently featuring in many Dredd stories. The sequel (Inferno) simply adds back in the motorbikes, realizing its earlier mistake.
The 1990's soft reboot (set slightly in the future from the original but with no shared characters) throws up a gang of easily identifiable (but attractive) misfits (leader, vixen, driver, tough & hacker) that are forced into service as mercenaries by a shadowy government organization, and then betrayed. Also, they have jetpacks (which very rarely get used in a sport setting). Nobody ever changes their clothes, so if this was presented in smell-o-vision, you wouldn't like it.
The stories starting in 2022 feel like a hard reboot designed to appeal to a younger audience (just like Scrappy Doo), but say they're set in a Dredd-contemporary Mega-City One.
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Harlem Heroes
(1977-1978) |
The Harlem Heroes
(1990-1995) |
Harlem Heroes [reboot]
(2022-2023) |
Art by Dave Gibbons, then Kevin Walker
- The 2000 AD ABC: Harlem Heroes
- Shop: The Complete Harlem Heroes
| Story Title | Parts | Pages | w indicates a wraparound coverCovers | Year(s) | Issues | Writer | Artist | Colourist | Letterer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem Heroes | 27 | 112 | 9: Dave Gibbons 1 | 1977 | Reprints: X13 2KA'83 (partial: 1‑5) 1-27 | 1: Pat Mills 1‑27: Tom Tully various | Carlos Trigo: 1 (p5) Dave Gibbons: 1‑24 Massimo Belardinelli: 25‑27 various | [b&w] | Bill Nuttall: 1 Dave Gibbons: 1‑24 John Aldrich: 25 Peter Knight: 26‑27 various |
| Berlin Stadium | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1977 | 2KA'78 | unknown | unknown | [greyscale] | unknown |
From InfernoInferno | 40 | 181.5 | 68: Dave Gibbons 1 | 1977-1978 | 36-75 | Tom Tully | Massimo Belardinelli | <--6pp, [b&w] | Bill Nuttall |
| [Apache Demons] | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1978 | 2KA'79 | unknown | unknown | <-- | unknown |
No supertitle. A "reimagining". Hike Harlem Heroes | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1997 | 1034-S | David Bishop Steve MacManusvarious | Jason Brashill | <-- | Ellie de Ville |
From Whatever Happened to...John Giant Clay? | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2004 | Reprints: M388 (supplement)M216 | Gordon Rennie | Rufus Dayglo | [b&w] | Tom Frame |
From [One‑Offs] | 2000 AD Specials Alternity.Harlem Zombos | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2024 | SFS28 | Al Ewing | Boo Cook | <-- | Simon Bowland | >> Features << |
2000AD Futuregraph.Power Gear | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1977 | Reprints: X13 2 | unknown | Kevin O'Neill | [b&w] | n/a |
2000AD Futuregraph.Super Liner | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1977 | 6 | unknown | Kevin O'Neill | <-- | unknown |
| Harlem Heroes | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1981 | 2KA'82 | editorial | reprints | [b&w] | n/a |
| 2000 AD Fear-File: Artie Gruber | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1983 | 2KA'84 | editorial | Massimo Belardinelli | [b&w] | n/a |
| [Unprinted dummy pages] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2006 | X13 | unknown | Trigo | [b&w] | n/a | >> Posters << |
Star Pin‑Up.Artie Gruber | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1978 | 74 | n/a | unknown | <-- | n/a | >> Floating Covers << |
| The Beautiful Game | ~ | ~ | 1 | 2006 | X13 | n/a | Henry Flint | <-- | n/a |
| year | episodes | pages |
| 1977 | 38 | 173 |
| 1978 | 31 | 138.5 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 28 | 159 |
| 1991 | 5 | 30 |
| 1992 | 4 | 22 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 12 | 73 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 | 6 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 | 12 |
| 2023 | 2 | 16 |
| 2024 | 1 | 6 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
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