2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-orientated
comic. As a
comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue (known as "progs") and was first published by
IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its
Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold to
Robert Maxwell in 1987 then
Egmont UK in 1991. Fleetway continued to produce the title until 2000, when it was bought by
Rebellion Developments.