[1] In the year 2100, Mega-City Two, on the West Coast of North America, becomes infected with the virus 2T(fru)T (a play on tutti frutti), which drives people violently insane before a painful death.

The only option is to send a land expedition of Judges across the "Cursed Earth"–the remnant of Middle America that multiple nuclear (and conventional) wars have reduced to a barren wasteland.

As one of Mega-City One's most active and celebrated lawmen, Judge Dredd is assigned to lead the mission, equipped with a heavily-armed "Killdozer" battle-tank and two state-of-the-art "Quasar" motorbikes.

This prediction quickly proves correct, as Death Valley holds the greatest peril of all: the remnants of President Booth's robot armies, badly-decayed but still heavily-armed, and programmed to kill any and all Judges.

Under the robots' onslaught, the last of the assisting Judges psychologically breaks, and "surrenders" himself to be killed; subsequently, Dredd, Spikes, and Tweak barricade themselves in a nearby Spanish fortress, just barely staving off further attacks.

Soon after, Spikes is dealt a fatal wound, and–encouraged by Tweak's accounts of his planet's riches–uses his last strength on a suicide attack against the robots, proudly dying as "the world's first punk billionaire".

Reprints include: The K2001 Landraider and Killdozer two-part vehicle used by Judge Dredd and his team was based on the K-2001 Raider Command Matchbox toy from the Adventure 2000 range.