By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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John Wagner, who co-created the character Judge Dredd in 1977 and has penned many of his adventures since, has said that he created Dredd as a response to the era's rising British right wing. But despite the character's left-leaning political origins, many of the early stories revolved around common conservative worries. Street crime, density, and joblessness haunt those tales, as do fears of mass madness.
John Wagner, who co-created the character in 1977 and has penned many of his adventures since, has said that he created Dredd as a response to the era's rising British right wing.
'Judge Dredd': A liberal creation with accidental appeal to conservatives →
"He seemed to capture the mood of the age," Mr. Wagner told the BBC in 2002. "He was a hero and a villain."
'Judge Dredd': A liberal creation with accidental appeal to conservatives →
