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Issue: Bad News #2
Publication Date: January 1984
 
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Publisher: FlagBad News
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Pages: 60
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Price: $3.00 USD
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Content Items: 28 (14 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers, Black & White Interior
Dimensions: Tabloid- 10.5" x 15.37" (26.67 cm x 39.03 cm)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
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Tot Abuse, Jed Clampett & Kin - Wacky Despair - Bowling Tips

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Kaz Prapuolenis confirmed he did his own color separations for this cover via his Facebook page on March 27, 2020 (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157981642320782, retrieved 28 March 2020).
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Eastern Artists

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An advertisement for a New York City Park Avenue store.
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Bad News #2

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Accompanied by a illustration titled "Medical Histories", which is composed of a series of skeletal x-ray images and mock "medical histories" of the artists
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
The Treacherous Tot
Shaky Sheke; The Treacherous Tot; Crazy Lady
The Hotel Scumbag, 2:26 a.m. Shakey Sheke was getting ready for bed when he heard a pounding coming from the room next door.
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FlagThe Best Comics of the Decade #1 published June 1990
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Homage to Chuck Jones

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The Road Runner
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Accompanied by a small-size inset roadrunner photo by Cruickshank from the National Audobon Society.
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I Fix

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Ubie's Brother; Mom; Dad; Ubie
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4
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Venus Records / House Party / Raw #6 / Village Comic Art Shop

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Little Richard
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Four NYC ads with an illustration for each. Friedman did the Venus Records Little Richard illustration.
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The Bugs

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Subject Matter
Chester
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FlagAvenue D #1 published January 1991
as The Bugs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Raw One-Shot #3 Jack Survives / Wayside Music (Wheaton, MD) / Shemp Records / Pier Platters (Hoboken, NJ)

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Shemp Howard
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Four ads. Features a small-size image of Moriarty's "Raw One-Shot #3" cover; The "Shemp Records" ad features what would become the Shemp cover illustration for Friedman's "Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead" book; The "Pier Platters" ad is illustrated by Kaz
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[untitled]

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humorous
Count Screwloose Cartoon Page
Father
Keep your eye on your work!
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FlagMilt Gross Funnies #2 published September 1947
 
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Five cartoons- "Keep your eye on your work.;" "I'm a pickpocket, your honor!;" "Everytime your father gets in the tub, the phone rings!;" "I like this much better than a broom!;" "How should I know what he's got in there?"
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From Hooterville to Eternity- The Situation Comedy of Paul Henning

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Paul Henning; Jed Clampett; Jethro Bodine; Elly May Clampett; Granny Clampett; Milton Drysdale; Oliver Wendell Douglas; Jane Hathaway; Bea Benaderet; Lisa Douglas; Sam Drucker; Cousin Bessy; Arnold
An apprecation of Paul Henning's "Beverly Hillbillies," "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres"
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FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [First Printing] published November 1985illustrations only
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] published July 1986illustrations only
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 #[nn] published February 2012illustrations only
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] published September 1986
as Paul Henning Amongst His Characters [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]illustrations only
 
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Text from "Demographic Vistas" (Univ. of Penn. Press, 1984). Accompanied by approximately twenty-four Friedman portrait illustrations, all small-size except for one.
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Danceteria

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An ad for the legendary NYC club
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1/3 x 3

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humorous
Mort; J. Riley
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Three 1/3 page size strips- "Mort and His Emotional Disturbances;" "Newgarden's Sad But True;" "Don't Copy My Style!"
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New York City Gazette

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David B. Slackine; Hans. H. Hamson; Ray Falster; Frank W. Owes, Jr.; Martin D. Craig; Bill
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Dwayne and Margot- A Bedtime Story

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Dwayne; Dwayne's Mother; Dwayne's Father; Margot; Manuel
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Here's a Whole Treasure Chest of Fun from Independent!!

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Ad for Chicago's Independent Publications with small-size images of various underground publications
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Solitary Blues

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
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FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [First Printing] published November 1985
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] published July 1986
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 #[nn] published February 2012
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] published September 1986
as Solitary Blues [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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It's a Wacky World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
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FlagJunior #1 published June 2000
as It's a Wacky World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Health Hen / Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture / Todd's Copies / Enz's

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Four mostly NYC-related ads, each accompanied by an illustration
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Bowler's Corner

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Subject Matter
humorous
Don Carter; Carmine Salvano; Harriet Ebbets; Frank Clause; Dave Soutar; George Howard
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Text from Graham's "Bowling Secrets of the Stars" book (1962) accompanied by small illustrations from Mariano. Also includes a poem by Head titled "I Got Bowling on My Mind!!"
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How to Housebreak Your Dog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Dog
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from The Dutch Treat Club Yearbook (1961)
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1
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Bridge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Wayne White; Junior Roden; Wayne's Sister; Wayne's Dad; The Fat One; Robin Rudd; Joel
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[untitled]

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The Treacherous Tot
The Treacherous Tot; The Nightwatchman
After his home was ravaged by fire- the Tot decided to spend the night in the city cemetery.
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Action Comics!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Nikki; Mehitabel
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Homage to Jefferson Machamer

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Includes an inset of a Machamer cartoon- "Now don't forget- I'm to get my regular pay and vacation pay and a bonus for spending my vacation here at the office!"
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Coffee Nerves

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Kamikaze

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Subject Matter
Nancy; Sluggo
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FlagBuzzbomb #[nn] published December 1987
 
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Ad for the now-defunct NYC club
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Trash and Vaudeville

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Back cover ad for the venerable NYC store

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