The United States of the West concept was dropped entirely a 'United Cities of North America' of three megacities was mentioned in prog 42 and then itself dropped in favour of Mega-City One being an independent entity. The 150 million population was later revised to 100 million in earlier strips and abruptly bumped to 800 million later on. Prog 4 then established that Mega-City One was surrounded by wildernesses from the Atomic Wars.

The back of prog 3 included an Ezquerra 'Futuregraph' poster of Mega-City One (a page from an unused Dredd story), which said the city stretched from Montreal to Georgia and had 150 million citizens it was part of the 'United States of the West' (USW). While the first Judge Dredd story is set in 'New York 2099AD', prog 3 retconned that and said New York was just part of Mega-City One. Art director Doug Church suggested that the city should extend along the entire Eastern Seaboard, and be called Mega-City One, and his idea was adopted. Ezquerra's vision of the city – with massive tower blocks and endless roads suspended vast distances above the ground with no visible means of support – was so futuristic that it prompted a rethink, and a whole new city was proposed. However, when artist Carlos Ezquerra drew his first story for the series, a skyscraper in the background of one panel looked so futuristic that editor Pat Mills instructed him to draw a full-page poster of the city. When the series Judge Dredd was being developed in 1976–77 it was originally planned that the story would be set in New York, in the near future. From its first appearance it has been associated with New York City's urban sprawl originally presented as a future New York, it was retconned as the centre of a 'Mega-City One' in the very next story. A post-nuclear megalopolis covering much of what is now the Eastern United States and some of Canada, the city's exact geography depends on the writer and artist working the story. Mega-City One is a fictional city that features in the Judge Dredd comic book series and related media.

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