Gosnell points out, however, that "wonderful gush of creative freedom they felt when I started on "Starlord" nearly got "2000 AD" taken off the market." They ran into legal problems over fill-in stories for "The Cursed Earth" (which satirised the big food companies, including figures like Ronald McDonald and the Jolly Green Giant) but the main problems came over "Inferno", the sequel to "Harlem Heroes". Concerns were raised over the violence in the story, but the sequence of events is unclear, as David Bishop writes in "Thrill Power Overload", "[trying to determine exactly what happened next is problematic, due to conflicting memories and the passage of time." The outcome was that, with issue No. 86 (cover-dated 14 October 1978), when "Starlord" was merged into "2000 AD", Landau was moved into the same role at the war comic magazine "Battle" (swapping places with Steve MacManus). Landau soon resigned from "Battle" and moved full-time back into the world of commerce.