Their first title was a 12-issue miniseries called Outcasts for DC Comics. Grant also wrote for other IPC comics such as the revamped Eagle.īy the late 1980s, Grant and Wagner were about to move into the American comic market. Grant and Wagner had developed the strip into the most popular in 2000AD as well as creating lengthy epic storylines such as The Apocalypse War. Judge Dredd would be Grant's main concern for much of the 1980s. Grant also worked on other people's stories, changing and adding dialogue, most notably Harry Twenty on the High Rock, written by Gerry Finley-Day. They would work on other popular strips for the comic, including Robo-Hunter and Strontium Dog using the pseudonym T.B. The pair eventually co-wrote Judge Dredd. Wagner asked Grant if he could help him write the Tarzan comic he was working on so began the Wagner/Grant writing partnership. Thompson editor, who was helping put together a new science fiction comic for IPC, 2000 A.D., and was unable to complete his other work.

He then met John Wagner, another former D.C. After going back to college and having a series of jobs, Grant found himself back in Dundee and living on Social Security.

Thomson before moving to London from Dundee in 1970 to work for IPC on various romance magazines. He is also the creator of the character Anarky.Īlan Grant first entered the comics industry in 1967 when he became an editor for D.C. Alan Grant is a Scottish comic book writer known for writing Judge Dredd in 2000 AD as well as various Batman titles during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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