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1100:(collects
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549:Characters
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465:Comic Rock
449:Torquemada
300:Torquemada
278:July
172:Created by
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1051:Pat Mills
979:Volume 3
894:Volume 2
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611:misdeeds.
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346:Tony Luke
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1080:Volume 1
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687:Filicide
608:familiar
554:Warlocks
510:Deadlock
492:teleport
390:Reprints
251:Schedule
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1166:Martech
1007:Book 9
956:Book 7
932:Book 6
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870:Book 3
849:Book 2
775:Summary
752:Stories
572:centaur
562:Nemesis
484:The Jam
461:2000 AD
440:2000 AD
160:2000 AD
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697:mutiny
632:Humans
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597:Chira
594:hero.
445:alien
259:Genre
92:JSTOR
78:books
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280:1980
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