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City of the Damned

judge Dredd story by John Wagner and Alan Grant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ55059002 ↗
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The public source identifies “City of the Damned” as judge Dredd story by John Wagner and Alan Grant. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around City, Damned and judge.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 7-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with City, Damned and judge providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55059002. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “City of the Damned” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.