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Issue: Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1937

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Publisher: Flag

Random House

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Indicia Publisher: Random House

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Pages: 500

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Price: none entered

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Content Items: 11 (3 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: All story pages appear on the right-hand (recto) page, with the verso (left-hand) pages blank.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Black and white

Dimensions: 5 3/4" w x 8 1/4" h

Paper Stock: Bond

Binding: Hardcover

Publishing Format: Graphic Novel

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Lynd Ward: Prelude to a Million Years * Song Without Words * Vertigo #[nn] published January 2010

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Content Items (11 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Lynd Ward ?

Inker(s): Lynd Ward ?

Colorist(s): Lynd Ward ?

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Pages: 1

Notes: Vertiginous spiral design, with stars.

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Pages: 3

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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Vertigo

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Pages: 1

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Pages: 1

"Vertigo"

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Lynd Ward ?

Inker(s): Lynd Ward ?

Letterer(s): Typeset

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Pages: 3

Notes: Title page, front matter, brand image

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Pages: 1

[Vertigo] The Girl

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Lynd Ward (credited)

Penciller(s): Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)

Inker(s): Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)

Subject Matter

Genres: drama

Character(s): The girl; father; young man

Synopsis: The girl and the young man are graduated from high school in highest expectations. He hopes for a good job, she for a career as a violinist. As the Depression deepens he leaves town to find work, but she does not hear from him again. When the father loses his job he attempts suicide so that the girl will receive the benefits of his life insurance, but only succeeds in blinding himself. The girl pawns her violin, and they are evicted from their apartment. At the end they wait in line, with many others, for relief.

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Pages: 65

[Vertigo] An Elderly Gentleman

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Lynd Ward (credited)

Penciller(s): Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)

Inker(s): Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)

Subject Matter

Genres: drama

Character(s): Elderly gentleman; butler; corporation officers; workers; strikebreakers; soldiers; doctors

Synopsis: An elderly gentlemen pursues refined and artistic pleasures. When his corporation profits decline he orders pay cuts, layoffs, and longer hours. As the workers strike he hires strikebreakers, then gets government officials to send in troops. He collapses and is bedridden, but profits once again are up.

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Pages: 93

Notes: The corporation in this story is the one from which the father is laid off in the previous story. The story is told as if through the course of a year, from January through December.

[Vertigo] The Boy

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Lynd Ward (credited)

Penciller(s): Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)

Inker(s): Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)

Subject Matter

Genres: drama

Character(s): The boy; the girl; elderly gentleman; drunk driver; Bugg

Synopsis: After bidding the girl farewell the boy wanders in search of work until he is sole witness of a fatal car crash. Stealing the victim's good clothes he returns to the city, watching the girl from afar, but the only work he can find is as a strikebreaker, which he refuses to be. Desperately he attempts crime but is scared off by a passing policeman. At length he sells his blood to the bedridden elderly gentleman, who needs a transfusion. With those few dollars in his pocket he makes a glum reunion with the girl, on a downward roller coaster.

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Pages: 84

Notes: The story is told as though in the space of a week, Monday through Sunday.

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Pages: 247

Notes: The verso side of each illustration, plus five more.

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Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Lynd Ward ?

Inker(s): Lynd Ward ?

Colorist(s): Lynd Ward ?

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