Judge Dredd, recently convicted of the murder of two members of the press, has escaped and is at large here in the Big Meg.

In a daring move Dredd hijacked shuttle 0949 that was transporting him to the Titan penal colony and crash landed back at Kennedy Spaceport. In an unprecedented move all of Mega City’s Judges have been re-tasked with finding Dredd.

Dredd was heard to shout “I got nothing to declare – except my innocence.”

Story: Outlaw
Appears: 2000AD Prog 87
Issues: 1
Writers: John Wagner
Art: Brian Bolland & Dave Gibbons
Dated: 21 October 1978

Why these three story aren’t folded into the main “Day the Law Died” storyline is a mystery. And the shift between two artists mid issue is not good.