Shako (UK Market)

This strip, created by Pat Mills and Ramon Sola and featuring a huge man-eating polar bear, was run in 2000 AD through prog #20 to 35 (as well as a one shot in 2000 AD Annual 1978). Shako never made the front cover of the magazine back then. Pat Mills co-wrote only the 4 first strips with John Wagner. Note that this strip was originally one of the 12 series that Pat Mills has worked on for the launch of 2000 AD.

Story

(I will not detailed the script of each prog file)
After swallowing a capsule containing a top-secret lethal virus, Shako, the great white playful polar bear had become the target of a hunt by the CIA led by Controller Jake Falmuth. Shako manages to escape his pursuers, leaving a trail of human body in its wake. At a time he befriends a young Eskimo Unk Sumak, but he is eventually killed by ecologist half Eskimo Buck Dollar.

• Shako part 1 (co-written with John Wagner, 2000 AD #20, July 9 1977)
• Shako part 2 (co-written with John Wagner, 2000 AD #21, July 16 1977)
• Shako part 3 (co-written with John Wagner, 2000 AD #22, July 23 1977)
• Shako part 4 (co-written with John Wagner, 2000 AD #23, July 30 1977)
• Shako part 5 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #24, August 6 1977)
• Shako part 6 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #25, August 13 1977)
• Shako part 7 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #26, August 20 1977)
• Shako part 8 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #27, August 27 1977)
• Shako part 9 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #28, September 3rd 1977)
• Shako part 10 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #29, September 10 1977)
• Shako part 11 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #30, September 17 1977)
• Shako part 12 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #31, September 24 1977)
• Shako part 13 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #32, October 1st 1977)
• Shako part 14 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #33, October 8 1977)
• Shako part 15 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #34, October 15 1977)
• Shako part 16 (written by John Wagner, 2000 AD #35, October 22 1977)

• White Fury (writer unknown, 2000 AD annual 1978)

The strip has been collect in several newsstand publication (see individual prog files), and a graphic novel reprint in December 2012:

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