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The Black Atlantic is a fictional location in Judge Dredd.

Background
Following the Atomic Wars the seas filled with toxic waste. The rise of the Mega-Cities (in particular Mega-City One) helped contribute to the pollution as they dumped vast amounts of waste into the ocean. The result is a thick toxic soup that is hostile to most sea life (resulting in strange mutations).

Battle of the Black Atlantic
A vast Sov city-ship appears in the Black Atlantic.

Pirates of the Black Atlantic
Captain Skank would later return in the "Helter Skelter" crossover event.

Atlantis
Atlantis was also important as it was the first time we saw judges from Brit-Cit.

Sin City
A vast floating city arrives just outside of Mega-City One's territorial waters.

Jumped
A group of ?? accidentally steal an item from some very serious types who want it bac and are prepared to kill everyone in between them and the missing item.

Judge Roffman

It emerges that the hand belonged to Sov Judge Orlok. It is the key that Sov agents will use to unlock the weapons they have stored on a wind power generator out in the Black Atlantic.

House of Pain
Criminals are disappearing from the streets in a scheme devised by Robert Krush. The judges eventually find the missing people in a prison complex established on the floating city we saw in the "Sin City" story.

Black Atlantic novel
A Tek-Judge has created a bio-weapon is loose on a city-ship packed with mutants. The creature is reminiscent of other foes Dredd has faced (Aliens and the Predator) as it is deadly and has some stealth abilities.

Black Atlantic series
Upcoming series by Dan Abnett starting in Meg #253.

Comics

 * Judge Dredd:
 * "Battle of the Black Atlantic" (by John Wagner and Ron Smith, in 2000 AD #128-129, 1979)
 * "Pirates of the Black Atlantic" (by John Wagner/Alan Grant and Ron Smith, in 2000 AD #197-200, 1981)
 * "Atlantis" (by John Wagner/Alan Grant and Brendan McCarthy, in 2000 AD #485-488, 1986)
 * "Sin City" (by John Wagner and Kev Walker, in 2000 AD #1289-1299, 2002)
 * "Jumped" (by John Smith and Simon Fraser, in 2000 AD #1491-1494, 2006)
 * "House of Pain" (by Gordon Rennie and artists Ian Richardson (1-3, 6) and PJ Holden (4-5), in 2000 AD#1485-1490, 2006)


 * Black Atlantic: "Meet the Jetsams" (by Dan Abnett and Steve Roberts, in Judge Dredd Megazine #253-, 2006, ongoing)

Collections
Some of the stories have been collected in trade paperbacks:


 * BotBA and PotBA are reprinted in Judge Dredd Chronicles #26, by Titan Books (1989, ISBN 1852861673)


 * The "Sin City" story was reprinted in a volume called Satan's Island (Rebellion, 2005, ISBN 1904265766). The name had to be changed to avoid confusion with Frank Miller's Sin City.

Novel
The novel is:


 * Judge Dredd: Black Atlantic (by Simon Jowett and Peter J Evans, June 2004, Black Flame, ISBN 1-84416-108-0)

RPG
Mongoose Publishing have also released a guide to the Judge Dredd RPG game:


 * The Rookie's Guide to Atlantis and the Black Atlantic (2004, ISBN 1903980860)