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Issue: Sam's Strip: The Comic About Comics #[nn]
Publication Date: March 2009
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: FBView Brand Images
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On Sale Date: 02/2009
Volume: none
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9781560979722
UPC/EAN: 978156097972252299
Price: $22.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Brian Walker
Disclose Notes: Completely reprints comic strip "Sam's Strip" which ran from 1961 to 1963.
Designer: Adam Grano; Strip Restoration: Bill Janocha; Production Assistance: Paul Baresh and Neal Walker; Promotion: Eric Reynolds.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Cover; Some color but mostly Black & White Interiors
Dimensions: 9.25" x 8"
Paper Stock:  
Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Silo (unnamed)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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There is Something New in Comic Strips

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Jerry Dumas
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.06.26
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Splash page, indicia page, and title page.
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How Sam's Strip Began

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Dumas
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Silo (unnamed); Mad Hatter; White Rabbit; Charlie Brown; Snoopy; Jerry Dumas (as character); Jerry Dumas (photo); Mort Walker (photo)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.10.03; from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.09.05
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: How the strip began. Includes a letter from Charles Schulz thanking Jerry for giving him a strip that had Charlie Brown in it, and two sales brochure from King Features Syndicate.
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My Time with Sam's Strip

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Walker
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Silo (unnamed); Blondie; Happy Hooligan; Yellow Kid; Krazy Kat; Ignatz; Paw; Si; Casper; Beetle Bailey; Plato; Jerry Dumas (as character); Jerry Dumas (photo); Mort Walker (photo)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.09.26 [one panel]; from Beetle Bailey daily (King Features Syndicate) 1967.02.25; from Sam's Strip Lives! (Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas, 1967? series) #[nn]; from Sams Serie (Semic Press, 1986 series) #[nn]; from Sam & Silo - Sam's Strip (Interpresse, 1979 series) #1.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Mort Walker's remembrances of the strip. One page is in color. Includes a Beetle Bailey strip that cameos Sam and Silo, and three covers for compilation books from the US, Sweden, and Denmark.
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Complete Sam's Strip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Walker; Jerry Dumas
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Letterer(s): Mort Walker
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Silo (unnamed); Jerry Dumas; Happy Hooligan; Krazy Kat; Ignatz; World; Humpty Dumpty; Uncle Sam; Pixy; Horace the Car; Mr. Dry (cameo); Alphonse (cameo); Gaston (cameo); Crazy Cassem (cameo); Little Orphan Annie (cameo); Sandy (cameo); Santa Claus (cameo); Gregory Beetle (cameo); Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe (cameo); Andy Gump (cameo); Little Tramp (cameo); Loch Ness Monster (cameo); Jiggs (cameo); Donald Duck (cameo); Popeye (cameo); Snuffy Smith (cameo); Beetle Bailey (cameo); Charles De Gaulle (cameo); Dagwood Bumstead (cameo); Mitch Miller (cameo); Charlie Brown (cameo); Cupid (cameo); Olive Oyl (cameo); Blondie (cameo); Mad Hatter (cameo); White Rabbit (cameo); Prince Valiant (cameo); The Little King (cameo); Dick Tracy (cameo); Skipper [Toonerville Trolley] (cameo); Yellow Kid (cameo); Betty Boop (cameo); Boss Tweed (cameo); Albert Schweitzer (cameo); Nikita Khrushchev (cameo); Lady Liberty (cameo)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sam's Strip dailies (King Features Syndicate) 1961.10.16 - 1963.06.01
Miscellaneous
Pages: 170
Disclose Notes: Credits are from Jerry's introduction.
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Strip Comments

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Dumas
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Silo (unnamed); Jerry Dumas (as character); Jiggs
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1963.04.17; from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1961.10.21; from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.03.02
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Jerry walks through specific strips, and gives commentary on them. Also included are several reworked strips, showing the unused ones and the final versions.
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Sam's Sixties

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Brian Walker
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Ignatz; Jerry Dumas (photo); Mort Walker (photo)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Brian walks through specific strips, and gives context on them; what was going on in the 1960's that made this strip funny.
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Sam & Silo

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Dumas; Mort Walker
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam & Silo
Character(s): Sam; Silo; Mayor McGuffey; Granny Naps; Funny Floyd; Mrs. McGuffey; Foggy; Mr. Teetering; Christe
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sam & Silo dailies (King Features Syndicate) 1977.??.?? -1977.??.??; from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1977.05.08 [black & white]; from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1977.05.22 [black & white]; from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1981.10.18 [black & white]; from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1989.12.17 [black & white]; from Sam & Silo daily (King Features Syndicate) 1993.??.??; from Sam & Silo daily (King Features Syndicate) 2007.06.23; from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1988.05.08 [black & white]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: An overview of the Sam & Silo strip, which was somewhat based on Sam's Strip. The first page (printed in color) is from the King Features' sales brochure for the strip. The remaining pages are in black and white.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Walker; Jerry Dumas
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Letterer(s): Mort Walker
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam
First Line: A reader wants to know why I started this comic strip
Synopsis: Sam discusses the "why" of his strip, and that he wants to be immortal.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1963.01.26
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The closing page of the inside of the book, containing just one strip with no heading, probably meant to comment on the author's view of the strip.
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Blurb

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jerry Dumas
Inker(s): Jerry Dumas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam's Strip
Character(s): Sam; Silo (unnamed); Jerry Dumas (as character); Mort Walker (photo); Jerry Dumas (photo)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: An explanation of the contents of this book, along with a photo and a pre-release introductory strip. There is red shading used on the entire background and behind the text. On back cover.
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Blank Pages

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Blank pages to pad the book; sometimes black (inside covers), sometimes red (between sections).

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