Dirty Frank

Dirty Frank is an undercover Judge operating deep within the criminal underworld of Mega-City One, having so thoroughly immersed himself in his cover identity that his grip on his own sanity has become dangerously tenuous. He first appeared in the Judge Dredd story 'The Ugly Earth' in 2000 AD #1389.

Dirty Frank burst onto the pages of 2000 AD in 2004, a Modern Age creation born from the legendary British anthology that has launched some of comics' most beloved cult figures. Over a dozen years and 59 catalogued appearances — including one collector-significant key issue — this Rebellion character carved out a distinctive niche across 2000 AD, its Christmas Annual, and the dedicated Mega-City Undercover series. The company Dirty Frank keeps is genuinely stellar: sharing pages with fan-favourite Nikolai Dante, the formidable Chief Judge Hershey, and a cast of richly imagined characters that speaks to the creative ambition surrounding this corner of the 2000 AD universe. If you love the irreverent, densely imagined world of British comics at their most inventive, Dirty Frank is exactly the kind of hidden gem worth digging into.