Judgment Day

    (Awesome, 1997)
™ and ©1997 Awesome Entertainment, Inc.

In the wake of Rob Liefeld’s exodus from Image, all the characters and books from his Maximum Press/Extreme Studios wound up under the Awesome Entertainment banner in 1997. This provided the perfect excuse to get writer Alan Moore to delineate the universe’s history in this three-issue series.

When Riptide is killed in her room, the members of Youngblood accuse Knightsabre, who was in her room at the time, of the murder. Judgment Day relates the trial of Knightsabre, which provides the framing device for flashbacks to events in the past. The flashbacks introduce new characters, each based on a particular comics genre, such as Zantar the jungle-hero, and Battlin’ Baron, the WWII hero. A different artist draws each flashback in a style appropriate to the genre. The concepts and history in this series were used as a springboard for changes throughout the Awesome Entertainment line.
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#1 (Regular Cover by Rob Liefeld)

June, 1997
Cover Price: $2.50
2 copies available from $3.25 		Alan MooreRob Liefeld, Gil Kane, Stephen Platt, Keith Giffen, Adam Pollina, Dan Jurgens
#1 (2nd Printing Cover by Rob Liefeld)

June, 1997
Cover Price: $2.50
1 copy available for $7.98 		Alan MooreRob Liefeld, Gil Kane, Stephen Platt, Keith Giffen, Adam Pollina, Dan Jurgens
#1 Variation A (Cover A by Dave Gibbons)

June, 1997
Cover Price: $2.50
2 copies available from $0.86 		Alan MooreRob Liefeld, Gil Kane, Stephen Platt, Keith Giffen, Adam Pollina, Dan Jurgens
#2 (Regular Cover by Dave Gibbons)

July, 1997
Cover Price: $2.50
2 copies available from $3.50 		Alan MooreAl Gordon, Alan Weiss, Chris Sprouse, Jim Starlin, Lary Stucker, Rachel Dodson, Rob Liefeld, Stephen Platt, Steve Skroce, Terry Dodson
#2 Variation A (Cover A by Rob Liefeld)

July, 1997
Cover Price: $2.50
7 copies available from $0.73 		Alan MooreAl Gordon, Alan Weiss, Chris Sprouse, Jim Starlin, Lary Stucker, Rachel Dodson, Rob Liefeld, Stephen Platt, Steve Skroce, Terry Dodson
#3 (Regular Cover by Dave Gibbons)

July, 1997
Cover Price: $2.50
5 copies available from $2.75 		Alan MooreRob Liefeld, Marat Mychaels, Cedric Nocon, Jeff Johnson, Dan Panosian, Rick Veitch, Ian Churchill, Norm Rapmund
#3 Variation A

July, 1997
Cover Price: $2.50
2 copies available from $4.66 		Alan MooreRob Liefeld, Marat Mychaels, Cedric Nocon, Jeff Johnson, Dan Panosian, Rick Veitch, Ian Churchill, Norm Rapmund