William Alfred Savage was a lorry driver whose vehicle was requisitioned by the Volgans in 1999 while he was in the North of England. By the time he had hitched back to London from the north, a stray shell from a tank had destroyed his house, killing his wife and children. In the ruins of his house he found a shotgun, just as a Volgan patrol vehicle turned the corner. He took the opportunity to shoot the Volgans. He was observed by Lieutenant Silk wiping out a Volgan tank crew in a South London pub, before destroying their tank.
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| - William Alfred Savage was a lorry driver whose vehicle was requisitioned by the Volgans in 1999 while he was in the North of England. By the time he had hitched back to London from the north, a stray shell from a tank had destroyed his house, killing his wife and children. In the ruins of his house he found a shotgun, just as a Volgan patrol vehicle turned the corner. He took the opportunity to shoot the Volgans. He was observed by Lieutenant Silk wiping out a Volgan tank crew in a South London pub, before destroying their tank.
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| - Another version of Bill Savage appeared in the Armoured Gideon story The Collector in 2000 AD progs 889-899 and was revealed to be a ghost, Savage having died when his shotgun went off while he was cleaning it in a Volgan ammo store. This was presumably an alternate universe version of Savage.
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| - Bill Savage was a lorry driver from East London, who lived in an alternate universe in which Britain was flooded in 1990 when a nuclear accident caused melting of the polar ice cap . Savage helped in a small way to restore order, but in 1999 the country was invaded by the Volgans, his world's version of the USSR, and Savage's wife and children were killed by a Volgan tank .
Savage launched a one-man war on the Volgans which led to him being recruited into the resistance by Lt. Peter Silk. Savage became a leader of the resistance and continued the fight after Silk was murdered, eventually having plastic surgery to hide his identity by adopting that of his late brother, Jack, who had died when the Volgans nuked Birmingham.
Bill's other brother, Tom, initially a collaborator, was also murdered after seeking revenge on Volgans who raped his daughter, and Bill's brother-in-law Noddie suffered brain damage at the Volgans' hands. Consequently, Bill has over time become battle-hardened to the point of sociopathy.
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| - Jack Savage ; Tom Savage ; Unnamed niece; Cassie Savage ; Noddie ; unnamed wife, son and daughter
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| - lorry driver, resistance fighter, barman
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| - William Alfred Savage / Herr Wilder / The Märze Murderer
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| - * Bill Savage first appeared in Invasion! from 2000 AD progs 1-51, and then starred in its prequel, Disaster 1990 in progs 119-139 before returning again in Savage, which picked up where Invasion! left off, in progs 1387-1396. The saga has so far continued in 2000 AD progs 1450-1459, 1526-1535, 1577-1586, 1632-1641, 1685-1699, 1740-1749, 2013 and 1813-1823.
* Savage's war with the Volgans ties-in with two other long running 2000 AD strips, Ro-Busters and ABC Warriors.
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| - William Alfred Savage was a lorry driver whose vehicle was requisitioned by the Volgans in 1999 while he was in the North of England. By the time he had hitched back to London from the north, a stray shell from a tank had destroyed his house, killing his wife and children. In the ruins of his house he found a shotgun, just as a Volgan patrol vehicle turned the corner. He took the opportunity to shoot the Volgans. He was observed by Lieutenant Silk wiping out a Volgan tank crew in a South London pub, before destroying their tank. Silk tracked Savage and attempted to recruit him to The Resistance in a transport cafe off the A11, but only succeeded after Savage had to save the lives of Silk and his team.
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