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|name = Story|image = [[Image:Prog9.jpg|180px]]|series = [[Harlem Heroes (series)|Harlem Heroes]]|story = Harlem Heroes|script = [[Pat Mills]] (Part 1) / [[Tom Tully]] (Parts 1-27)|art = [[Dave Gibbons]] (Parts 1 - 24) / [[Carlos Trigo]] (Part 1, page 5) / [[Massimo Belardinelli]] (Parts 25-27)|letters = [[Dave Gibbons]] (Parts 1-24) / [[Bill Nuttall]] (Part 1) / [[John Aldrich]] (Part 25) / [[Peter Knight]] (Parts 26, 27)|published = [[2000AD]] [[Prog 1]] - [[Prog 27]]|episodes = 27|pages = |previous = |next = [[Inferno]]}}
''Harlem Heroes''  appeared in [[2000AD]] from [[Prog 1]]. It was set in the year [[2050]].
 
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'''''Harlem Heroes''''' was one of the original stories to appear in [[2000AD]] [[Prog 1]]. It was set in the year [[2050]].
 
==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
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===Part One===
 
On their way from their victory in the preliminary round of the World Aeroball Championship, the Harlem Heroes road-liner's power-unit cut out, caused it to crash and killed all but four of the team. When Giant, Slim and Hairy visited the chronically injured Louis in hospital to say goodbye, he encouraged them to rebuild the squad so that they could win the championship in honour of their dead teammates<ref name="hh1">Harlem Heroes Part One, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 1]]</ref>.
 
===Part Two<ref name="hh2">Harlem Heroes Part Two, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 2]]</ref>===
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A veteran aeroball player interrupted the Heroes training and demonstrated that, with the latest medical advances, the hip injury which had forced him out of the game no longer held him back.
   
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The five visited the Sky-Slums, where they discovered a reckless kid whom Giant had to rescue when his illegal home-made jet-pack over-heated.
===Part One<ref>Harlem Heroes Part One, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 1]]</ref>===
 
On their way from their victory in the preliminary round of the World Aeroball Championship, the Harlem Heroes road-liner's power-unit cut out, caused it to crash and killed all but four of the team.
 
   
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Two Heroes who had transferred to another team requested a transfer back, completing the rebuilt squad.
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===Part Three<ref name="hh3">Harlem Heroes Part Three, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 3]]</ref>===
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Finding out that the team they were playing against consisted of police, Zack broke formation. King managed to stop the Bulls from scoring, but at the cost of going to the penalty pen. Still hot-headed, Zack proceeded to gain a foul before crashing in to a TV camera boom.
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===Part Four<ref name="hh4">Harlem Heroes Part Four, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 4]]</ref>===
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Hairy and Giant dove down to rescue Zack. While in the pits Baltimore scored as Giant had not called a time-out. Returning to the game, Zack was chastised by Giant and played better. During half-time Giant took a call from Louis which suggested that the crash was sabotage.
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===Part Five<ref name="hh5">Harlem Heroes Part Five, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 5]]</ref>===
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The Heroes managed to win in the second half. As they left the stadium Ulysses Cord approached them and gave them a superliner so that they could win the World Championship.
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===Part Six<ref name="hh6">Harlem Heroes Part Six, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 6]]</ref>===
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While the Heroes travelled via the Trans-Atlantic Tunnel to Moscow they trained some new recruits in the gym. Louis has joined them in the medic-room, still convinced that the crash was sabotaged. When they arrived in Moscow they travelled over Red Square, seeing thousands of Russians out to greet them on their way to the aeroball stadium. They quickly realise that the Wolves do not care about their own safety in the game.
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===Part Seven<ref name="hh7">Harlem Heroes Part Seven, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 7]]</ref>===
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After a few Wolves seriously injured themselves trying to stop them, the Heroes equalised, but then Giant found his jetpack malfunction. He ejected it at a great height and was left falling.
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===Part Eight<ref name="hh8">Harlem Heroes Part Eight, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 8]]</ref>===
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Giant, his fall broken by a Wolf, was caught by Slim. Winning the game, the Heroes returned to the States. Meanwhile, surgeons had finished operating on Gruber, bringing him back as a cyborg.
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===Part Nine<ref name="hh9">Harlem Heroes Part Nine, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 9]]</ref>===
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Cord had a million dollar side-bet with Teegarten that the Heroes would win their next league game. Gruber, positioned high among the cliff-dwellers prepared to shoot Giant.
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===Part Ten<ref name="hh10">Harlem Heroes Part Ten, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 10]]</ref>===
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Gruber's blast hits Giant's opponent, though grazes his cheek too. Zanies spotted Gruber the next time he tried to take a shot, his handler told him to make for the Mashers' pits.
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===Part Eleven<ref name="hh11">Harlem Heroes Part Eleven, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 11]]</ref>===
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Having found a jetpack, Gruber took to the air. Sammy is injured, forcing him out of aeroball. Despite a thousand-dollar bonus the Mashers are outflown by the angered Heroes.
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===Part Twelve<ref name="hh12">Harlem Heroes Part Twelve, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 12]]</ref>===
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The Heroes started their match against the Scotsmen.
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===Part Thirteen<ref name="hh13">Harlem Heroes Part Thirteen, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 13]]</ref>===
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The Heroes did not fair well against the Scotsmen.
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===Part Fourteen<ref name="hh14">Harlem Heroes Part Fourteen, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 14]]</ref>===
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Six points down at half-time (which no team had ever recovered from), the Heroes equalised after a pep talk from Louis.
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===Part Fifteen<ref name="hh15">Harlem Heroes Part Fifteen, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 15]]</ref>===
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Zack won a sudden death play off against Red, winning and gaining Red's respect.
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===Part Sixteen<ref name="hh16">Harlem Heroes Part Sixteen, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 16]]</ref>===
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Gruber killed the Gargoyle squad-leader, taking his place.
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===Part Seventeen<ref name="hh17">Harlem Heroes Part Seventeen, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 17]]</ref>===
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The Gargoyle match began.
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===Part Eighteen===
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Gruber's first attempt on Giant hits team-mate Floyd instead. His second attempt kills Chico. As the game resumed, Gruber attached a limpet mine to the ball and threw it towards Giant<ref name="hh18">Harlem Heroes Part Eighteen, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 18]]</ref>.
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===Part Nineteen<ref name="hh19">Harlem Heroes Part Nineteen, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 19]]</ref>===
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Giant let the ball go to a sub, who was immediately killed by the bomb. The Heroes started to play dirty, eventually fighting among themselves, in public.
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===Part Twenty<ref name="hh20">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 20]]</ref>===
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Louis intervened, now mobilised by a self-propulsion unit. Giant and King uncovered the identity of Gruber. Exposed, Gruber revealed a grenade.
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===Part Twenty One<ref name="hh21">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty One, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 21]]</ref>===
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Zack threw the ball at Gruber's face and caused him to drop the grenade. The Gargoyle's held Gruber and attempted to kill him, destroying themselves in the process. Gruber was reactivated by a cardiac boost as he headed to the crematorium, escaping where he was picked up by an ambulance.
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===Part Twenty Two<ref name="hh22">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Two, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 22]]</ref>===
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The Heroes went to Tokyo, Cord tried to convince them to play more violently and the Heroes started their match against the Blades.
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===Part Twenty Three<ref name="hh23">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Three, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 23]]</ref>===
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One Blade sacrificed his place in the game to block a 120-mile-an-hour power-throw from Giant. Another Blade sacrificed his life so the team could bring on their substitutes. Cord tried to convince the Heroes to take more risks, but Louis intimidated him.
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===Part Twenty Four<ref name="hh24">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Four, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 24]]</ref>===
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Louis had reproduced a recent incident involving Gruber merely by thinking about it and caused Cord to faint. The Heroes feign fear to put the Blades off-guard.
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===Part Twenty Five<ref name="hh25">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Five, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 25]]</ref>===
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After their jet-packs went missing from the Heroes stadium, Cord replaced them.
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===Part Twenty Six<ref name="hh26">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Six, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 26]]</ref>===
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Many Heroes were put in the pits by the Titans. Cord is afraid Giant's jetpack was going to explode when it started smoking.
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===Part Twenty Seven<ref name="hh27">Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Seven, [[2000AD]] [[Prog 27]]</ref>===
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Giant forced a confession from Cord, who thought the Heroes were making the game too fair and wanted more violence to improve viewing figures. In the last throw of the match, Hairy and King were killed, though Zack rebound the ball and won the championship for the Heroes.
 
==Characters==
 
==Characters==
 
*[[Giant Clay]]<ref name="hh1" />
 
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*[[Slim]]<ref name="hh1" />
*[[Giant Clay]]
 
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*[[Hairy]]<ref name="hh1" />
 
 
*[[Louis Meyer]]<ref name="hh1" />
*[[Slim]]
 
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*[[Conrad King]]<ref name="hh2" />
 
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*[[Zack Harper]]<ref name="hh2" />
*[[Hairy]]
 
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*[[Chico Travis]]<ref name="hh2" />
 
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*[[Sammy]]<ref name="hh2" />
*[[Louis Meyer]]
 
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*[[Lannigan]]<ref name="hh4" />
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*[[Ulysses Cord]]<ref name="hh5" />
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*[[Artie Nelson]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[Boris Woroslov]]<ref name="hh6" />
 
*[[Tucker]]
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*[[Artie Gruber]]
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*[[Cyrus Teegarten]]
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*[[Benny Gray]]<ref name="hh10" />
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*[['Red' MacArdle]]<ref name="hh12" />
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*[[Buck]], Hero<ref name="hh13" />
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*[[Andy]], Scotsman<ref name="hh13" />
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*[[Joe 'Ugly' Mugglie]]<ref name="hh16" />
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*[[Pretty Boy Floyd]]<ref name="hh17" />
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*[[Beauty-Pack Benson]]<ref name="hh18" />
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*[[Dale Parker]], Heroes sub<ref name="hh19" />
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*[['Toots' Tomlinson]], Gargoyle<ref name="hh19" />
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*[[Mr Gorgon]]<ref name="hh21" />
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*[[Hojo]], Blade<ref name="hh22" />
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*[[Tanaka]], Blade<ref name="hh23" />
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*[[Karl]], Titan<ref name="hh26" />
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*[[Sam Mason]], Hero sub<ref name="hh26" />
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*[[Joe James]], Hero sub<ref name="hh26" />
   
 
==Technology==
 
==Technology==
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*[[XJ9 Power Pack]]<ref name="hh2" />
 
 
*[[road-liner]]<ref name="hh1" />
*jet pack
 
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*[[XJ9 Helmet]]<ref name="hh2" />
*[[road-liner]]
 
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*[[XJ9 Power Belt]]<ref name="hh2" />
 
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*[[Holophone]]<ref name="hh4" />
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*[[Superliner]]<ref name="hh5" />
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*[[Tacto-Mat]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[Autodoctor]]
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*Synthetic grass-fibre lawn
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*[[Kwik-heal]] spray<ref name="hh10" />
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*[[Nu-skin]]<ref name="hh10" />
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*[[jet-board]]
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*(plastic) nu-faces<ref name="hh16" />
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*Magnum grenade
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*Hammerhead jet
 
==Culture==
 
==Culture==
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*[[Bolshoi Ballet]]<ref name="hh6" />
 
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*[[London Synthesiser Orchestra]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[CCCP]]<ref name="hh6" />
 
===Sports===
 
===Sports===
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*[[Aeroball]]<ref name="hh1" />
 
 
===Events===
[[Aeroball]]
 
 
*[[World Aeroball Championship]]<ref name="hh1" />
 
==Events==
 
 
World Aeroball Championship
 
 
 
==Entities==
 
==Entities==
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*[[GTV]]<ref name="hh3" />
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*[[Trans-World Networks]]<ref name="hh5" />
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*[[Juggernaut Trucking Corp]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[Oceanic Industries]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[Mills Moving]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[Transatlantic Trucks]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[TWR]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[Acme]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[World Aeroball Association]]
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*[[Ancient Order of Aztecs]] (Zanies)
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===Aeroball Teams===
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*[[Harlem Heroes]]<ref name="hh1" />
 
*[[Greek City Gladiators]]<ref name="hh1" />
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*[[Baltimore Bulls]]<ref name="hh3" />
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*[[Seattle Swifts]]<ref name="hh2" />
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*[[Siberian Wolves]]<ref name="hh5" />
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*[[Montezuma's Mashers]]
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*[[Washington Warlocks]]<ref name="hh12" />
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*[[Flying Scotsmen]]<ref name="hh12" />
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*[[Gorgon's Gargoyles]]<ref name="hh16" />
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*[[Bushido Blades]]<ref name="hh21" />
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*[[Teutonic Titans]]<ref name="hh25" />
   
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==Locations==
*Harlem Heroes
 
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*[[Mega-City One]]<ref name="hh6" />
 
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**[[Harlem Aero-Drome]]<ref name="hh5" />
*Greek City Gladiators
 
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**[[Sky-Slums of Harlem]]<ref name="hh2" />
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***[[Street Level Nine]]<ref name="hh2" />
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*[[Museum of Sport]]
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*[[Transatlantic Tunnel]]<ref name="hh5" />
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**[[Atlantic Hilton]]<ref name="hh6" />
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*[[Moscow]]<ref name="hh5" />
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**The [[Palace of Aeroball]]<ref name="hh6" /> (КОСМОСЕ СТАВЧМ / Cosmic Stadium)
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*[[Scotland]] (mentioned)
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**[[Aberdeen]] (mentioned)
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**[[Glasgow]] (mentioned)
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**[[Edinburgh]] (mentioned)
 
*[[Tokyo]]
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**[[Palace of Sport]]
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*[[Berlin]] (mentioned)
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*[[Euro-Stadium]]
   
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
<references />
 
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[[Category:Future sports]]
<references/>
 
 
[[Category:Harlem Heroes]]
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[[Category:Harlem Heroes stories]]

Revision as of 07:49, 1 June 2019

Harlem Heroes was one of the original stories to appear in 2000AD Prog 1. It was set in the year 2050.

Synopsis

Part One

On their way from their victory in the preliminary round of the World Aeroball Championship, the Harlem Heroes road-liner's power-unit cut out, caused it to crash and killed all but four of the team. When Giant, Slim and Hairy visited the chronically injured Louis in hospital to say goodbye, he encouraged them to rebuild the squad so that they could win the championship in honour of their dead teammates[1].

Part Two[2]

A veteran aeroball player interrupted the Heroes training and demonstrated that, with the latest medical advances, the hip injury which had forced him out of the game no longer held him back.

The five visited the Sky-Slums, where they discovered a reckless kid whom Giant had to rescue when his illegal home-made jet-pack over-heated.

Two Heroes who had transferred to another team requested a transfer back, completing the rebuilt squad.

Part Three[3]

Finding out that the team they were playing against consisted of police, Zack broke formation. King managed to stop the Bulls from scoring, but at the cost of going to the penalty pen. Still hot-headed, Zack proceeded to gain a foul before crashing in to a TV camera boom.

Part Four[4]

Hairy and Giant dove down to rescue Zack. While in the pits Baltimore scored as Giant had not called a time-out. Returning to the game, Zack was chastised by Giant and played better. During half-time Giant took a call from Louis which suggested that the crash was sabotage.

Part Five[5]

The Heroes managed to win in the second half. As they left the stadium Ulysses Cord approached them and gave them a superliner so that they could win the World Championship.

Part Six[6]

While the Heroes travelled via the Trans-Atlantic Tunnel to Moscow they trained some new recruits in the gym. Louis has joined them in the medic-room, still convinced that the crash was sabotaged. When they arrived in Moscow they travelled over Red Square, seeing thousands of Russians out to greet them on their way to the aeroball stadium. They quickly realise that the Wolves do not care about their own safety in the game.

Part Seven[7]

After a few Wolves seriously injured themselves trying to stop them, the Heroes equalised, but then Giant found his jetpack malfunction. He ejected it at a great height and was left falling.

Part Eight[8]

Giant, his fall broken by a Wolf, was caught by Slim. Winning the game, the Heroes returned to the States. Meanwhile, surgeons had finished operating on Gruber, bringing him back as a cyborg.

Part Nine[9]

Cord had a million dollar side-bet with Teegarten that the Heroes would win their next league game. Gruber, positioned high among the cliff-dwellers prepared to shoot Giant.

Part Ten[10]

Gruber's blast hits Giant's opponent, though grazes his cheek too. Zanies spotted Gruber the next time he tried to take a shot, his handler told him to make for the Mashers' pits.

Part Eleven[11]

Having found a jetpack, Gruber took to the air. Sammy is injured, forcing him out of aeroball. Despite a thousand-dollar bonus the Mashers are outflown by the angered Heroes.

Part Twelve[12]

The Heroes started their match against the Scotsmen.

Part Thirteen[13]

The Heroes did not fair well against the Scotsmen.

Part Fourteen[14]

Six points down at half-time (which no team had ever recovered from), the Heroes equalised after a pep talk from Louis.

Part Fifteen[15]

Zack won a sudden death play off against Red, winning and gaining Red's respect.

Part Sixteen[16]

Gruber killed the Gargoyle squad-leader, taking his place.

Part Seventeen[17]

The Gargoyle match began.

Part Eighteen

Gruber's first attempt on Giant hits team-mate Floyd instead. His second attempt kills Chico. As the game resumed, Gruber attached a limpet mine to the ball and threw it towards Giant[18].

Part Nineteen[19]

Giant let the ball go to a sub, who was immediately killed by the bomb. The Heroes started to play dirty, eventually fighting among themselves, in public.

Part Twenty[20]

Louis intervened, now mobilised by a self-propulsion unit. Giant and King uncovered the identity of Gruber. Exposed, Gruber revealed a grenade.

Part Twenty One[21]

Zack threw the ball at Gruber's face and caused him to drop the grenade. The Gargoyle's held Gruber and attempted to kill him, destroying themselves in the process. Gruber was reactivated by a cardiac boost as he headed to the crematorium, escaping where he was picked up by an ambulance.

Part Twenty Two[22]

The Heroes went to Tokyo, Cord tried to convince them to play more violently and the Heroes started their match against the Blades.

Part Twenty Three[23]

One Blade sacrificed his place in the game to block a 120-mile-an-hour power-throw from Giant. Another Blade sacrificed his life so the team could bring on their substitutes. Cord tried to convince the Heroes to take more risks, but Louis intimidated him.

Part Twenty Four[24]

Louis had reproduced a recent incident involving Gruber merely by thinking about it and caused Cord to faint. The Heroes feign fear to put the Blades off-guard.

Part Twenty Five[25]

After their jet-packs went missing from the Heroes stadium, Cord replaced them.

Part Twenty Six[26]

Many Heroes were put in the pits by the Titans. Cord is afraid Giant's jetpack was going to explode when it started smoking.

Part Twenty Seven[27]

Giant forced a confession from Cord, who thought the Heroes were making the game too fair and wanted more violence to improve viewing figures. In the last throw of the match, Hairy and King were killed, though Zack rebound the ball and won the championship for the Heroes.

Characters

Technology

Culture

Sports

Events

  • World Aeroball Championship[1]

Entities

Aeroball Teams

Locations

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Harlem Heroes Part One, 2000AD Prog 1
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Harlem Heroes Part Two, 2000AD Prog 2
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harlem Heroes Part Three, 2000AD Prog 3
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harlem Heroes Part Four, 2000AD Prog 4
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Harlem Heroes Part Five, 2000AD Prog 5
  6. 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 Harlem Heroes Part Six, 2000AD Prog 6
  7. Harlem Heroes Part Seven, 2000AD Prog 7
  8. Harlem Heroes Part Eight, 2000AD Prog 8
  9. Harlem Heroes Part Nine, 2000AD Prog 9
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Harlem Heroes Part Ten, 2000AD Prog 10
  11. Harlem Heroes Part Eleven, 2000AD Prog 11
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Harlem Heroes Part Twelve, 2000AD Prog 12
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Harlem Heroes Part Thirteen, 2000AD Prog 13
  14. Harlem Heroes Part Fourteen, 2000AD Prog 14
  15. Harlem Heroes Part Fifteen, 2000AD Prog 15
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Harlem Heroes Part Sixteen, 2000AD Prog 16
  17. 17.0 17.1 Harlem Heroes Part Seventeen, 2000AD Prog 17
  18. 18.0 18.1 Harlem Heroes Part Eighteen, 2000AD Prog 18
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 Harlem Heroes Part Nineteen, 2000AD Prog 19
  20. Harlem Heroes Part Twenty, 2000AD Prog 20
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 Harlem Heroes Part Twenty One, 2000AD Prog 21
  22. 22.0 22.1 Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Two, 2000AD Prog 22
  23. 23.0 23.1 Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Three, 2000AD Prog 23
  24. Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Four, 2000AD Prog 24
  25. 25.0 25.1 Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Five, 2000AD Prog 25
  26. 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Six, 2000AD Prog 26
  27. Harlem Heroes Part Twenty Seven, 2000AD Prog 27