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[Judge Dredd] Is there an in-universe reason Dredd is never seen without a helmet? Has anyone asked him about it?

New reader of 2000AD here, and I was wondering if there's any in-universe acknowledgement of this practice. (Unless he does remove it off-panel)
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He's removed it a few times; there was once a whole comic where he was helmet off the entire time, but it doesn't get revealed until the end.

That said, he keeps it on more or less constantly for a few reasons. One, it's his uniform on top of being his best protection against getting sniped or gassed (there's a little gas mask hidden in there). Two, he very strongly believes that presenting an image of being The Law is far more effective than the image of Just Some Dude, so he doesn't show his face a lot. Finally, Dredd's face is **fucked up** from years of service injuries and basically everything but that epic chin has been hit hard; veteran judges *flinch* when they see him sans helmet.