Deadlock

Deadlock is a sinister, skeletal warrior-sorcerer from the pages of 2000 AD, serving as Grand Master of the mystical Knights Martial and a key figure in the ABC Warriors saga, wielding dark arcane power as an agent of chaos and destruction.

Few characters from the British comics boom carry quite the mystique of Deadlock, who stepped onto the page in 1979's 2000 AD and Starlord #123, brought to life by writer John Howard and the incomparable art of Brian Bolland — as auspicious a debut as the Bronze Age could offer. Over an extraordinary 38-year run across 2000 AD, this Fleetway Publications figure accumulated 163 catalog appearances and four key-issue designations, marking them as a genuine cornerstone of British comics history. Deadlock shares their world with some of the most iconic figures the galaxy's greatest comic ever produced — Hammerstein, Mongrol, Joe Pineapples, Blackblood, and Joe Dredd among them — company that tells you everything about the weight this character carries in that universe. For any collector serious about the rich, irreverent tradition of 2000 AD, Deadlock is absolutely essential.