Wednesday Worlds of Wonder JUDGE DREDD "He IS the Law" Part 1

What Happens When Americans Take a British Comic Series about Americans...and Reboot It?

You're about to find out!

We Pause the Narrative Until Next Wednesday

Written by Andrew Helfer and illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming, this never-reprinted premiere issue of Judge Dredd (1994) was a continuation of a partnership between DC and England's Fleetway Press which began with a highly-successful one-shot combining Judge Dredd with The Batman against Judge Death and The Scarecrow!

Three more standalone stories with the combative duo followed, along with a Judge Dredd/Lobo one-shot and the comic adaptation of the Judge Dredd movie starring Sylvester Stallone, and two new series about Dredd and Mega-City One; this title, which ran 18 issues, and Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law which ran for 13 issues.
Note: Besides the standalone graphic novels, there was no interaction between the DC Universe and Dredd's reality!
Here's the book's editor, Paul Kupperberg, explaining some of the basics about this reboot and how it differs from the original British series..

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Space Hero Saturdays SPACE VOYAGERS "Hot Spot"

Every few years in comics, there's a short-lived never-reprinted sci-fi space adventure series...

In the 1960s it was Gold Key's Explorers in the Unknown.

In the 1970s, it was DC's Space Voyagers, appearing in the back of Rima the Jungle Girl.

Though this is the origin tale, it appeared in DC's Rima the Jungle Girl #3 (1974), after a two-parter (set after the events of this tale) ran in #1 & #2!

(Oddly, the second pilot episode of the Classic Star Trek tv series, "Where No Man has Gone Before", aired as the third episode of that series.)

Scripted by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Alex Nino, the series ran thru the first five issues of Rima before disappearing.

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Patriotic Reading Room SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN "When Olsen Changed History!"

We Have Already Seen...

...since this is the continuation of a story from the previous issue, I'll let the narrator clue you in as t what's going on...

Had ya goin' there for a minute, eh?

Written by Leo Dorman and illustrated by Pete Costanza, this never-reprinted tale from DC's Jimmy Olsen #127 (1970) was one of the last Silver Age-style stories of "Superman's Pal" as a radical change came only a half-year later as Jack (King) Kirby, coming over from Marvel, asumed writer-penciler duties with #133...

...the Bronze Age got fully under way, and elements of Kirby's Fourth World became part of the DC mythos!

Patriotic Reading Room SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN "Jimmy Olsen--Traitor!"

Which of the Man of Steel's Besties Got into More Trouble?
Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen?

Don't answer until you've read this never-reprinted Silver Age story...

To Be Concluded...Next Sunday!

Written by Leo Dorfman and illustrated by Pete Costanza, this tale from DC's Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #126 (1970) wasn't considered odd or unique enough to warrant being the cover story...

Hope You Had a Happy (and Safe) 4th of July!