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Orlok the Assassin

Orlok the Assassin

65 appearances Β· Bronze Age Β· 1981–2021 Β· 3 key issues
Who is Orlok the Assassin?

Orlok the Assassin is a cold, ruthless agent of East-Meg One, the Soviet mega-city that stands as Mega-City One's greatest rival. Introduced during the Apocalypse War storyline, he was deployed as a saboteur and assassin to destabilize Mega-City One from within.

Few villains in British comics carry the same cold, enduring menace as Orlok the Assassin, who first stalked the pages of 2000 AD back in 1981 β€” a Bronze Age debut in the UK's most celebrated weekly anthology that launched a presence lasting an extraordinary four decades. With 65 catalogued appearances and three collector-significant key issues to his name, Orlok has proven himself far more than a one-off threat, earning a permanent place in the rich, dystopian universe that 2000 AD has built across the years. He keeps genuinely remarkable company within those pages β€” sharing adventures alongside icons like Judge Dredd, Psi Judge Anderson, Rogue Trooper, and Johnny Alpha β€” which speaks volumes about the weight this character carries in Rebellion's sprawling stable of characters. If you're serious about 2000 AD history, Orlok the Assassin is exactly the kind of deep-cut figure whose appearances reward the dedicated collector.

β˜… First appearance
2000 AD #236
Oct 1981

Trivia

  • Orlok's most infamous operation β€” poisoning Mega-City One's water supply to trigger Block Mania β€” served as the story engine that set up the Apocalypse War, cementing the Sov conflict as one of Judge Dredd's defining long-form arcs.comicvine.gamespot.com
  • John Wagner has written more of Orlok the Assassin's comics than any other writer in our catalog β€” 27 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years β€” 1981–2020

2000 AD #240 β˜… 1981
2000 AD #240
2000 AD #507 1987
2000 AD #507
Judge Dredd the Megazine #29 β˜… 1993
Judge Dredd the Megazine #29
2000 AD #1142 β˜… 1999
2000 AD #1142
2000 AD #1294 2002
2000 AD #1294
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #5 2006
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #5
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files #01 2009
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files #01
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files #2 2012
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files #2
2000 AD #1912 2015
2000 AD #1912
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #30 2017
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #30
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #35 2020
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #35

Appearances

Judge Dredd the Megazine (1992)
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files (2005)
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files (2009)
2000 AD Sci-Fi Special (2014)
Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection (2015)