2000 AD #724

Judge Dredd lunges straight at the reader on this 1991 cover by Dermot Power, his Lawgiver blazing with a flash of muzzle light against a deep purple background — it's an arresting, in-your-face composition that captures Mega-City One's toughest lawman at his most relentless. The cover proudly declares readers "Judged Guilty of Extreme Thrill-Power," and with six Scrotnig stories in full colour plus a Zarjaz free gift inside, Prog 724 delivers a genuinely packed weekly. Peter Milligan and James McCarthy's "Carry On Barton, Part 2" is among the lineup, making this a solid instalment of 2000 AD at the height of its British comics swagger.