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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Harlem Heroes | 28 | 159 | 671: Kevin Walker 675: Steve Dillon 683: Steve Dillon 684: Steve Dillon 694: Steve Dillon 705: Kev Hopgood6 | 1990 | Reprints: M357‑M360, M362 (supplements)671-676,683-699,701-705 | Michael Fleisher | Steve Dillon (P: 1‑25) Kevin Walker (P: 26‑27; I: 1‑16, 18‑26) Simon Jacob (I: 17, 27) Kev Hopgood: 28various | [b&w] | Bambos Georgiou |
Supertitled "Harlem Heroes featuring Slice".Death-Sport | 5 | 30 | 0 | 1991 | 745-749 | Michael Fleisher | Geoff Senior | <-- | Pat Prentice |
Supertitled "Harlem Heroes featuring Silver".Grey Ghost Overflight | 4 | 22 | 0 | 1992 | 776-779 | Michael Fleisher | Ron Smith | [b&w] | Mary Green |
Supertitled "Harlem Heroes".Cyborg Death Trip | 12 | 73 | 931: Siku 1 | 1995 | 928-939 | Michael Fleisher | Kev Hopgood (P), Siku (I)various | <-- | Ellie de Ville | >> Posters / Teasers << |
| Rap Sheet: Silver | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 671 | n/a | Steve Dillon | <-- | n/a |
| Rap Sheet: Slice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 672 | n/a | Steve Dillon | <-- | n/a |
| Rap Sheet: Patrice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 673 | n/a | Steve Dillon | <-- | n/a |
| Rap Sheet: Trips | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 674 | n/a | Steve Dillon | <-- | n/a |
| Rap Sheet: Deacon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 675 | n/a | Steve Dillon | <-- | n/a |
Star Scan.Dex Ruger of Harlem Heroes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1995 | 933 | n/a | Kev Hopgood | <-- | n/a |
Star Scan.Jasmine Starr of Harlem Heroes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1995 | 934 | n/a | Kev Hopgood | <-- | 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 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
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