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Issue: The Big Book of the Unexplained #[nn]
Publication Date: June 1997
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: Paradox Press
On Sale Date: 04/30/1997
Volume: none
Pages: 196
ISBN: 1563892545
UPC/EAN: 76194120719300111
Price: $20.95 CAD
$14.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 53 (42 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Andrew Helfer; Jim Higgins (assistant)
Disclose Notes: Letterers for interior sequences are listed as a group on page below indicia: Bob Lappan, Roxanne Starr, Agnes Pinaha, Hugh Monhan, and Michael Price.

One of the seventeen Paradox Press series of Big Books:
1994 - The Big Book of Urban Legends
1995 - The Big Book of Death; The Big Book of Weirdos; The Big Book of Conspiracies;
1996 - The Big Book of Freaks; The Big Book of Little Criminals; The Big Book of Hoaxes; The Big Book of Thugs
1997 - The Big Book of Losers; The Big Book of The Unexplained; The Big Book of Martyrs; The Big Book of Scandal
1998 - The Big Book of Bad; The Big Book of the Weird Wild West
1999 - The Big Book of Vice; The Big Book of Grimm
2000 - The Big Book of the '70s
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers; Black and White Interior
Dimensions: 8 1/2 inches by 10 7/8 inches
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; Matte interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: One-Shot
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The Big Book of The Unexplained

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Table of Contents

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An Introduction

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Doug Moench
Eric Shanower
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High Strangeness

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Introduction to Chapter One: High Strangeness.
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Aggravating Agriglyphs

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D'Israeli D'Emon Draughtsman
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Senseless Synchronicities

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Robin Smith
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Moving Megaliths

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The Crystal Skull of Doom

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Jeff Parker
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Reeling Rocks and Rolling Stones

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Gary Fields
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Not Quite Cats and Dogs

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Ancient Man

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Sergio Aragones
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As Above, So Below

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Ward Sutton
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In No Space-Time Flat

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Randy DuBurke
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Close Enchounters

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Introduction to Chapter Two: Close Encounters.
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Classified Quotes

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The New Guinea Synchronicity

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The Best Photos are Always Blurry

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South American Stud to the Stars

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Steve Mannion
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The Valentich Vanishing

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Alien Abduction Alternatives

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Donald David
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The Astronauts and the Aliens

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Russ Heath
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Waters of Bent Reality

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Paul Gulacy
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The Death of the Fifth Sun

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Pope of the Paranormal

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Eyes of the Beholder

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Gahan Wilson
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Impossible Entities

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Introduction to Chapter Three: Impossible Entities.
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Crypto-Critters

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Andrew Wendel
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The Bigfoot Sleeping Bag Snatch

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Bill Alger
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The Mothman Visitations

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Graham Higgins
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The Goatsucker

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Joe Sacco
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Those Sinister Men in Black

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The Monsters of Loch Ness

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The Kentucky Goblin Spree

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S. M. Taggart
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Dinosaur Alive

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The Sasquatch Saucers

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Joe Phillips
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From the Beyond

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Introduction to Chapter Four: From the Beyond.
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Cosmic Trickster Quickies

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Jim Fern
Jim Fern
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Curse of the Mummy's Boy

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Rick Geary
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The Versailles Timeslip

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Imagics

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Putting the Ick in Titanic

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Creeping Coffins of the Restless Dead

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The Cosmic Trickster Returns

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Car Without a Rebel

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The Miraculous Mirabelli

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Fred Harper
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Bullet Ghosts

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Hollywood Hauntings

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FlagWeird #3 published January 1998
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The Cosmic Trickster Giggles Again

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Afterword

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Eric Shanower
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Biographies

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Short biographies on the writer and artists featured in the book.
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Bibliography

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List of sources.
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Copyright Information

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