Christopher Marlowe

Stepping out of Elizabethan legend and into the grim future of Mega-City One, Christopher Marlowe is one of the more delightfully unexpected figures to haunt the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine, debuting in 1995 courtesy of the sharp minds of John Wagner and Paul Marshall. Over nearly three decades of appearances across Judge Dredd Megazine, 2000 AD, and Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection, this character has kept remarkable company — sharing pages with Joe Dredd himself, Judge Becky Steel, Psi Judge James Dee, and even William Shakespeare. With a key issue already to their name and a presence that has quietly persisted from the Copper Age into the modern era, Marlowe is exactly the kind of cult curio that rewards the dedicated 2000 AD explorer.