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Issue: The Complete Crumb Comics #15
Publication Date: August 2001
 
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Title: Mode O'Day and Her Pals
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
On Sale Date: 2001
Volume: 15
Pages: 136
ISBN: 1560974133
UPC/EAN: 978156097413051895
Price: $28.45 CAD
$18.95 USD
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Content Items: 44 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: 1st printing: August 2001 (18.95 USD; 28.45 CAD); 2nd printing: April 2011 (19.99 USD)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Black & White with some Color
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm)
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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reprinted 27 times from Content Items in other Issues.
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[untitled]

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Mode O'Day
Mode O'Day; Doggo; Charley Patton
Ooh, this tape always makes me want to MOVE!
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[untitled]

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This is the front cover flap. It includes an excerpt from the introduction. A drawing of a stick of dynamite from "The Monkey Wrench Gang" is included.
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[untitled]

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The Complete Crumb

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Title page
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[untitled]

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The Complete Crumb volume 15- featuring Mode O'Day and Her Pals

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Book title plus publisher logo; Indicia plus production and reprint credits
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Contents

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An unpublished Crumb self portrait from 1983 is included.
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[untitled]

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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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The Bagge introduction is signed and dated December 12, 2000.
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[untitled]

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humorous
....I don't expect it to be readily apparent to you, but I just want you to be aware...
A plea to the reader to buy Weirdo.
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FlagWeirdo #9 [First Printing] published January 1984
was [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Arline 'n' Bob and That Thing In the Bedroom

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adult, autobiography
Arline 'n' Bob
Arline [Aline Kominsky-Crumb]; Bob [Robert Crumb]; Nick; Liz; Sophie Crumb
The couple spend a day in the city and struggle with the responsibilities of parenthood.
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FlagWeirdo #9 [First Printing] published January 1984
was Arline 'n' Bob and That Thing in the Bedroom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Mode O'Day
Mode O'Day; Doggo; Geoffrey; Sam Greenberg
She's just a small town girl but what she'd really like to be is a fashion model in New York!
Doggo and Mode successfully pass off a piece of salvage junk as art.
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FlagWeirdo #9 [First Printing] published January 1984
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Hey, Mode... it says here they want people to come down to Nicaragua and help out"

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humorous
Mode O'Day
Mode O'Day; Doggo; G.G. Goosey; Dotty
Doggo wants to go to Nicaragua to help with the coffee harvest but Mode has other plans.
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FlagWeirdo #10 [unnamed variant] published January 1984
was Hey, Mode... it says here they want people to come down to Nicaragua and help out..." [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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adult, humorous
Goldilocks; Daddy Bear; Mommy Bear; Baby Bear
Goldilocks crashes her way into The Three Bears's home.
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FlagWeirdo #11 [unnamed variant] published January 1984
was Goldilocks and the Three Bears [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Love's Like That!

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adult, humorous
Three separate sex-related cartoons.
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FlagWeirdo #11 [unnamed variant] published January 1984
was Love's Like That! [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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humorous
Mode O'Day
Mode O'Day; Mara; Doggo; Porpy [Dorfman E. Dolphin]; Paul; Manuel Beastly; Cassandra
Oh look! He's got a copy of the social register... I should get myself one of those!
Porpy meets Mode at a party and winds up giving her a ride to her apartment.
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FlagWeirdo #12 [First printing] published January 1985
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Psychopathia Sexualis (A Klassic Komic)

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adult, biography
Dr. R. Von Krafft-Ebing; Mr. X; F.J.; P.; J.H.; B.; X; L.; Mr. Von H.; Miss X.; M.; A.
Several cases of sexual pathology are illustrated using excerpts from Dr. R. Von Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis."
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FlagWeirdo #13 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Psychopathia Sexualis [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Where Has It Gone, All the Beautiful Music of Our Grandparents?

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Robert Crumb [as R.]; Limahl; Crumb's Mother
A Crumb diatribe on the state of modern music.
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FlagWeirdo #14 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Where Has It Gone, All the Beautiful Music of Our Grandparents? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Life Certainly Is "Existential"!

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FlagWeirdo #14 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Life Certainly Is "Existential"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Comics From Other Planets Dept.

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adult, humorous
A story featuring aliens on another planet with the dialogue written completely in a mock alien language.
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FlagWeirdo #15 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Comics From Other Planets Dept. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Gags

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adult, humorous
A set of unrelated single panel comics.
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FlagWeirdo #15 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Gags [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Gurgle's Distilled Gin

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humorous
A mock gin advertisement.
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FlagWeirdo #15 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Gurgle's Distilled Gin [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[untitled]

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adult
Pssst.... Hey! C'mere! Got something important I wanna tell ya...
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FlagWeirdo #9 [First Printing] published January 1984
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Wild Tales of Crazed Youth

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adult, humorous
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FlagWeirdo #10 [unnamed variant] published January 1984
was Wild Tales of Crazed Youth [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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[untitled]

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adult
I'm ready! Lemme have it! Gimme gimme gimme
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FlagWeirdo #11 [unnamed variant] published January 1984
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Special Loser Issue

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FlagWeirdo #12 [First printing] published January 1985
was Special Loser Issue [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Psychopathia Sexualis

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FlagWeirdo #13 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Psychopathia Sexualis [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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America Wallows In its Own Filth!!

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adult
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FlagWeirdo #14 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Is Reagan Crazy or Just Plain Stupid?

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Darlene
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FlagWeirdo #15 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Parting Shots

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political
Ayn Rand
Illustration shows a man throwing an egg at a poster of Rand.
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FlagWeirdo #15 [unnamed variant] published January 1985
was Parting Shots [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Color Section Illustrations

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The Klezmorim; Alain Weill; The Otis Brothers; Louie Bluie [Howard Armstrong]; Little Billy Hunker-Snucker; Real Gone Goose; Fuzzy the Bunny; Pasternak Q. Punk; "Housetop" Howard; "Piggy" Hog; Sophie Crumb
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from Bring Me Your Love [Black Sparrow Press, 1983 series) #[nn]; from There's No Business (Black Sparrow Press, 1984 series) #[nn]; from Texas Crude: The How-To on Talkin' Texan (Plume, 1984 series) #[nn]; from The Monkey Wrench Gang (Dream Garden Press, 1985 series) #[nn] (1985)
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Eighteen illustrations of varying sizes, most in color. The Klezmorim - "Streets of Gold" (1978 album cover, Arhoolie #3011); "Charley's Choice" (record label sticker); A small b&w portrait of Alain Weill; The Otis Brothers (album cover, Flying Crow Records, catalog #FC103); A 1985 Louie Bluie movie poster; Four book covers- "Bring Me Your Love" and "There's No Business" by Charles Bukowski; "Texas Crude: The How-To on Talkin' Texan" by Ken Weaver and "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey (tenth anniversary edition); Six 1983 2.25 inch Kitchen Sink Press pinback buttons (All are individually numbered: Real Gone Goose (#113, circled #9 of set of 11); "Housetop" Howard (#114, circled #2); Fuzzy the Bunny (#115, circled #11); Pasternak Q. Punk (#116, circled #3); "Piggy" Hog (#117, circled #7); Little Billy Hunker-Snucker (#118, circled #1)); Two unpublished 1984 Sophie Crumb pastel caricatures- "I don't want to go to bed!;" "Sophie Almost 2 Years Old;" A "Wild Family Orchestra" record label (Yolo Records #001, 1979)
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Weirdo #9 Letters Page Masthead and Spot Illustration

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Weirdo
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FlagWeirdo #9 [First Printing] published January 1984
was Weirdo Number 9 [Letters Page on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Two separate illustrations
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[untitled]

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Please help R. Crumb to get rich & powerful by ordering lots 'n' lots of... Back Issues
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FlagWeirdo #9 [First Printing] published January 1984
was [untitled] [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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A Last Gasp advertisement for Crumb sketchbooks, note cards and comic books.
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Miscellaneous Illustrations from 1983

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Santa Claus; Carol Engberg; Robert Crumb
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from Rules of Thumb (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983 series) #[nn]
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Four small illustrations. "Merry Christmas" (a Crumb family holiday card shows Santa Claus on a ladder pulling fruit from a tree); "To Rye- Carol Engberg in Her Pop-Art Bathing Suit;" Two self-portraits- "Tom: Have admired your artwork over the years man you do some tight stuff!" (a postcard from the Tom Parker book "Rules of Thumb"); "Self-Portrait of R. Crumb" (same drawing was used in this book's table of contents page)
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Hypothetical Quandary

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Subject Matter
autobiography
American Splendor
Harvey Pekar
Harvey weighs what the pros and cons would be if he made enough money from writing to support himself.
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FlagAmerican Splendor #9 published January 1984
was Hypothetical Quandary [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Miscellaneous Illustrations (1982-85)

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Charles Bukowski; Gerty; Thelma; Mamie; Bonnie; Doc; The Director; Smith; Hayduke
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from Bring Me Your Love [Black Sparrow Press, 1983 series) #[nn]; from There's No Business (Black Sparrow Press, 1984 series) #[nn]; from Texas Crude: The How-To on Talkin' Texan (Plume, 1984 series) #[nn]; from The Monkey Wrench Gang (Dream Garden Press, 1985 series) #[nn] (1985); from Pepper & Stern Rare Books Catalog (Pepper & Stern, ? series) #29 (1984); from CoEvolution Quarterly (Whole Earth Catalog, 1974 series) #42 (Summer 1984); from Monkey Wrench Gang, The (Dream Garden Press, 1985 series) #[nn] (1985) (Tenth anniversary edition)
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Approximately seventy-five illustrations. A 1982 Bukowski promotional portrait for Black Sparrow Press; Four illustrations from Bukowski's "Bring Me Your Love" and six from "There's No Business" include the title pages and Bukowski captions; Twenty from Ken Weaver's "Texas Crude" with captions and/or dialogue; "Pepper & Stern Rare Books, Inc." catalog cover; "Pssst! Hey! C'mere! I got somethin' I wanna show ya!!" (poster advertisement for The Magazine, a San Francisco used bookstore. Circa 1984. Same character from the inside front cover of Weirdo #9); "Meeting with Remarkable Cat Ladies" (four illustrations from CoEvolution Quarterly); Thirty-nine illustrations from Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang," seven with captions
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The Constipated Chaos Consortium

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Subject Matter
adult
Maurice; Betty; Checkered Demon
Another packed-to-the-gills jam from the Zap Comix guys.
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FlagZap Comix #11 [unnamed variant] published February 1985
was The Constipated Chaos Consortium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Jesus People, U.S.A. interviews R. Crumb, Underground Pornographer and All-Around Lost Soul

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Subject Matter
Robert Crumb
Chris; Robert Crumb
Subtitled "A Hypothetical Situation," this story is about a magazine interviewer from Jesus People, U.S.A. Among other things, he asks Crumb about his opinions on religion and tells him that he'll go to straight to hell if he doesn't convert.
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FlagZap Comix #11 [unnamed variant] published February 1985
was Jesus People, U.S.A. Interviews R. Crumb, Underground Pornographer and All-Around Lost Soul [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Patton

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Subject Matter
adult, biography
Charley Patton; Henry Sloan; W.C. Handy; Eddie "Son" House [Son House]; Howlin' Wolf; Tommy Johnson; Bukka White; Washboard Sam; Mrs. Keith Dockery; Lizzie; Tom Rushen; Willie Brown; Louise Johnson; Robert Johnson; Bertha Lee; W.R. Calaway
This bio of Charley Patton covers some of the major events in his life from his introduction to the blues in the early 1900s to his death in 1934.
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FlagZap Comix #11 [unnamed variant] published February 1985
was Patton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Miscellaneous Illustrations 1982-84

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Subject Matter
Tom Arons; Karen Olson; Erna Rae Burger; Patty Graves; Ron Turner; Graham Craig McNamara; Julie McNamara; Craig McNamara; Robert Crumb; Sophie Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb; B-102-4336; J.B.
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from The Whole Earth Catalog (Whole Earth Catalog, 1968 series) #? (1984)
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2.39
Eight illustrations- "You are invited to attend a party to celebrate the marriage of Tom Arons & Karen Olson" (1983); "Musical Barbecue at the Crumb Ranch" (1982); "Annual Burritos, Beer and Cheer" (A 1984 Last Gasp holiday party invitation); "Look what we harvested!! It's a Boy!" (A 1984 birth announcement); "You are invited to a Baby Shower for Julie McNamara;" "I'm having a blast this Christmas!!" (A Crumb family holiday card from 1984 drawn by all three); Two 1984 illustrations from The Whole Earth Catalog- a kid playing a "Piranha" arcade game; "Good to have you with us, B-102-4336!"
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Loose in the Streets poster

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Subject Matter
Uncle Benny; Ronald Reagan; Dianne Feinstein
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0.61
A 1984 jam poster made for the San Francisco Chronicle that combines comics with illustrations. O'Neill's contribution is a four panel untitled strip with this first line of dialogue: "My "informed" source, Uncle Benny, lives in the alley behind the Fairmont..." Crabb's story is titled "As the World Burns." Moscoso supplies an untitled illustration. Crumb's illustration is titled "20,000 of His Most Intimate Friends"
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Back cover flap lists all the other Fantagraphic Crumb books available at the time.
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[untitled]

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typeset
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Robert Crumb
Back cover includes a 1987 painting of Crumb by Alice Kominsky-Crumb. Also included is a small excerpt from Peter Bagge's intro.
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