Deathmasques

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Deathmasques
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Author Dave Stone
Cover artist Sean Phillips
Series Judge Dredd
GenreScience fiction
Set in 2115
Publisher Virgin Books
Publication date
August 1993
Pages256
ISBN 0-352-32873-8
Preceded byNone 
Followed by The Savage Amusement  

Deathmasques (1993) is an original novel written by Dave Stone and based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip Judge Dredd . It also features the character Detective-Judge Armitage, who appears in his own series in the Judge Dredd Megazine .

Contents

Synopsis

A deadly creature of self-aware energy which can possess the body of any living being is at large, and Judge Dredd must follow it across the Atlantic to Brit-Cit to destroy it.

Continuity

Armitage and Dredd meet again in Dave Stone's sequel, The Medusa Seed (1994).

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