2000 AD #124

2000AD #124 ©Rebellion A/S

Series: A.B.C. Warriors

Publisher: IPC

Published: August 4th 1979 (first edition)

ISBN/print: weekly magazine

Size/binding: A4 newspaper

Cover: Carlos Ezquerra

Title: The Tournament of the Damned

Artist: Brett Ewins

A.B.C. Warriors

Story:

'The Tournament of the Damned':  Deadlock foresees in the tarot cards that Hammerstein will be stabbed by ten swords, and he, will hold the ace of swords as the winner. Hammerstein comrades has been drugged by the Knights Martial to prevent them for interfering. Hammerstein defeated discovers that Deadlock sword feds on death, but he manages to take the ace of swords from Deadlock and forced him to rejoin his team. Their next target, a Vogan dreadful robot, general Blackblood (6 pages).

Comments:

The story of Deadlock and the Order of the Knights Martial has been re-told in the recent Volgan War arc. In this strip we get to see Deadlock 's armor without his cloak, displaying a laughing burning head.

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