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Issue: Messages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn]
Publication Date: April 2013
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 02/2013
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Pages: 276
ISBN: 9781606995808
UPC/EAN: 978160699580853500
Price: $35.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 49 (42 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Greg Sadowski
Disclose Notes: Reprints stories drawn by Bernard Krigstein and published from 1943-1957. A reissue of the 2004 hardcover "B. Krigstein Comics" with improved reproduction.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: 8" x 10.5"
Paper Stock: bond
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Title Pages Job Number Notes
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2   Includes art from The World's Strange Shuffle (Real Clue Crime Stories vol.5 #6, 1950, page 1, panel 1) and "Key Chain" (Crime SuspenStories #25, 1954, page 1, panel 1)
Herman the Hermit
Story on Interior Page(s)
8   Credits derived from Greg Sadowski in Comics Journal #276.
The Accursed Diamond
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   Art credits from The Comics Journal #276.
Conning the Confidence Man
Story on Interior Page(s)
9    
The Mistake
Story on Interior Page(s)
7    
Double Trouble
Story on Interior Page(s)
5.67    
Liar
Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
Magician of Murder Creek
Story on Interior Page(s)
6.67    
One-Way Street
Story on Interior Page(s)
7    
Death of Nuggets Nugent
Story on Interior Page(s)
7    
The World's Strangest Shuffle
Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
Now I Can Die Easy...
Story on Interior Page(s)
9    
The Highwayman
Story on Interior Page(s)
7   Based on the poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.
Blacksmith Belle Malone
Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
Monster of the Seas
Story on Interior Page(s)
7   Original title discovered on photostats of Krigstein's art and used in this reprint.
Black Silver Heart
Story on Interior Page(s)
7    
The Kid Talks Tough
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Going My Way?
Story on Interior Page(s)
5 A-33 A story similar to Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitchhiker"
Ghoul's Gold
Story on Interior Page(s)
4 A-126  
War Horse!
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Last Bullet
Story on Interior Page(s)
5 C-146  
Drummer of Waterloo
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6    
The Untouchable!
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5 C-696  
Joseph and His Brethren
Story on Interior Page(s)
5 D131  
The Terrorist
Story on Interior Page(s)
3    
The Flying Machine
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Pipe Dream
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
The Catacombs
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Key Chain
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   Script credited in reprint.
Master Race
Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
Murder Dream
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
In The Bag
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Poetic Justice
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Garibaldi
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4 H-110  
The Hypnotist!
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5 H-619  
The House that Lived
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4 H-723  
They Wait Below
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4 J-236  
Dinosaur
Story on Interior Page(s)
4 L524  
Survival!
Story on Interior Page(s)
4 L-850  
The Last Look
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4 M-94  
Out of This World
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4 M157  
The Phantom of the Farm!
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4 M-270  
Notes and original art
Text Article on Interior Page(s)
19   Notes on the reprinted stories; includes original art and panels from "Trail Blazing to Victory" page 4 (All-New Short Story Comics #3), "the Human Leopard" (Nyoka the Jungle Girl vol.3 #13), "Taxi Mister?" (Patches #9), an unused Pepper Young's Family newspaper strip, "the One and Only Tex" (All-Time Sports vol.2 #7), "$22,000 Worth of Wheelbarrows" (Real Clue Crime Stories vol.4 #10), "Minutemen of Saratoga" (Our Army at War #14), "the Flying Machine" (Weird Science-Fantasy #23), "the Catacombs" (Vault of Horror #38), "Master Race" (Impact #1) and "Inheritance" (Piracy#4)
Poetic Justice
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6   Republished from original art - shows uncensored version of the story.
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