The Action-Packed Secret Origin Story of Judge Dredd

The most intriguing part of Judge Dredd���s origin isn���t the fictional character���s designer birth by DNA cloning, nor that he was based in part on a disciplinarian monk, nor even that when the strip first appeared in the second issue of 2000AD, the original creators had already quit. It���s that Dredd's embryonic form is found in an unpublished issue of different comic ��� one that was scandalously violent, allegedly dangerous, and deliciously subversive.

Action was conceived by Pat Mil...