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Issue: Action Girl Comics #7
Publication Date: April 1996
 
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Publisher: FlagSlave Labor
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Indicia Publisher: Slave Labor Graphics
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Volume:
Pages: 28
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Price: $2.75 USD
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Content Items: 18 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sarah Dyer
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Limited Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Sarah Dyer
Sarah Dyer
Sarah Dyer
Subject Matter
Action Girl
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Sarah Dyer
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Action Girl & Flying Girl in: Big Present

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Sarah Dyer
Sarah Dyer
Sarah Dyer
Sarah Dyer
Subject Matter
Action Girl
Action Girl [Erica]; Flying Girl [Ginnie]
Flying Girl drops a note down to Action Girl telling her to meet at a certain time and location on Saturday. Action Girl shows up, Flying Girl blindfolds her and takes her into a building. Once inside she tells her to jump as the blindfold is removed. It turns out that they are in a new vertical wind tunnel that will open to the public the next week - Flying Girl brought Action Girl here as a present so that Action Girl could feel what it's like to fly.
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Last panel of this story is a smaller version of the art from the front cover.
Tobey's Terror Tales: 'Puppets from Hell'

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Chris Tobey
Chris Tobey
Chris Tobey
Chris Tobey
Subject Matter
The author recounts how two friends (Dean & Erin) took her & her boyfriend to a puppet show based loosely on "Faust" that was awful, and how she had nightmares later of the puppets coming to life and biting her.
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Zero Hour

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Patty Leidy
Patty Leidy
Patty Leidy
Patty Leidy
Subject Matter
Beth; Ant; P.J.; Stanley
Beth decides she doesn't want the same old noodles for supper and decides to go out for Chinese food, three friends come with her. They tease her about getting the same thing every time. To challenge her, Ant orders a random item from the menu, even though she has no idea what is in it. The waiter offers a menu in English, but Ant declines. When the food arrives they all lose their appetite upon seeing Ant's food - which is chicken parts like claws, eyeballs and intestines.
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Who Am I?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Ms Phink
Ms Phink
Ms Phink
Ms Phink
Subject Matter
A woman describes various aspects of herself, such as that she likes cats, likes to cook, likes books, believes in good karma, and likes gummy bears.
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The Devil's Doing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Rebecca Dart
Rebecca Dart
Rebecca Dart
Rebecca Dart
Subject Matter
Tells how catfish lost their scales because during creation the Devil was about to fry the catfish and had already scraped off the colorful red, blue and yellow scales when the Good Lord came along and stopped him. The Devil threw the catfish back in the water, but the scales never grew back, which is why catfish today have no scales.
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Noted as an adaptation of a tale from the American South.
Miss Africa Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Suzanne Baumann
Suzanne Baumann
Suzanne Baumann
Suzanne Baumann
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Never

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Jen Benka; Kris Dresen
Jen Benka; Kris Dresen
Jen Benka; Kris Dresen
Jen Benka; Kris Dresen
Subject Matter
A woman who is ill and sleeping on a couch, curled up in a blanket, has hallucinations involving romance with a cornfield scarecrow.
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My Fugly Fabulous Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Amanda Lewis
Amanda Lewis
Amanda Lewis
Amanda Lewis
Subject Matter
A woman describes the percieved imperfections of various parts of her faces (nose, eyebrows, forehead, chin, etc), but it's all OK because she has a beautiful smile.
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Tales from the Family Reastaurant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Jennifer Sorensen
Jennifer Sorensen
Jennifer Sorensen
Jennifer Sorensen
Subject Matter
Gwen
Gwen recounts the odd foods, bizarre customers, and the strange antics of her co-workers at her summer job in a Pennsylvania Dutch-style family restaurant.
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Sky-Blue Pink

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She-Ra
She-Ra
She-Ra
She-Ra
Subject Matter
A woman recounts some of her teen antics from the summer of 1956, especially how she and her girlfriends waited all summer for the release of a new lipstick color from Revlon called Sky-Blue Pink that was just pink lipstick with a little bit of blue in it.
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Action Girl Coloring Page

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Anastasia Moreno
Anastasia Moreno
Subject Matter
Action Girl
A pin-up of Action Girl standing atop a pile of large stuffed animals and toys.
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Your Hostesses

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Info about the contributors to this issue, in order of appearance in the issue. Info tells about their other credits, and gives mailing addresses for each contributor, along with mail order prices for their own publications.
Further Reading

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Info on other books recommended by the editor, both for self-published mini-comics and for other comics.
Action Mail

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letters from readers about previous issues. Includes one unsigned and uncredited fan art illustration of Action Girl. Also includes info on the next issue, including a small black-and-white reproduction of the cover for the next issue.
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Promo advertisement for previous issues of this title, as well as two different T-shirts featuring Action Girl, and a small advertisement with the address and phone number to request a Slave Labor Graphics catalog.
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Back cover advertisement is for Empty Love Stories #2 (Slave Labor, 1994 series), scheduled for Augustv 1996 publication. Text features quotes from Jeff Smith and James Robinsin. Advertisement also has a small color reproduction of the Michael Allred cover (without any trade dress or logo) for issue #2.

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