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Issue: Prime Cuts #1
Publication Date: March 1987
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.25 CAD
$3.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 29 (21 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: November 1986 ?. The print date year is missing in the indicia but the month is included.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black & white with colour covers
Dimensions: US magazine size - 10.75" x 8.25" (27.3 cm x 20.95 cm)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Dot and Dash
Dot; Dash
Dot and Dash go surfing
Reprinting
from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.07.24)
Miscellaneous
0.34
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Polly; Pa; Uncle
Hey Polly! Sharks!!
Pa is worried about sharks near the beach
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from Polly and her Pals Sunday (1927.7.24)
Miscellaneous
0.66
Prime Cuts Words & Pictures

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Table of contents plus a quote from Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Miscellaneous
1
Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Continued several pages later
The Outsider

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
An adaptation of the famous short story about a solitary man weary of darkness who is inexorably drawn to a castle tower.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Production and indicia credits. Subscription offer for Prime Cuts with the following month's issue shown.
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Miscellaneous
1
Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
autobiography
Aline 'n' Bob
Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
The problems with having an old refrigerator as a style item
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Dirty Laundry Comics #[nn] [unnamed variant] published June 1993
as Troubles With Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #16 published July 2002
as Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagNeed More Love A Graphic Memoir #[nn] published January 2007
as Aline 'n' Bob in Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDrawn Together #[nn] published October 2012
as Aline 'n' Bob in Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
Blues

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
autobiography
Eddie Campbell; Georgette Maison; Dave Harwood
Love's obsession
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Miscellaneous
8
Originally released in the UK as a self-published comic
Overheard At America's Lunch Counters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Overheard At America's Lunch Counters
Eleven quotations heard by the author while waitressing
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Miscellaneous
2
Portrait

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
1
Accompanies a text story by R.A. Lafferty
Mr. Hamadryad

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
7
Reality. Fantasy. and Everything in Between

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Luba
Ad for Love & Rockets
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Dot and Dash
Dot; Dash
Dot and Dash chase a bird
Reprinting
from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.06.19)
Miscellaneous
0.34
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Ashur Perkins; Pa
Ashur invents flourescent slippers
Reprinting
from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.06.19)
Miscellaneous
0.66
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Dot and Dash
Dot; Dash
Dot and Dash meet a fox
Reprinting
from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.07.17)
Miscellaneous
0.34
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Polly; Pa; Bob
Pa goes on a fox hunt
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from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.07.17)
Miscellaneous
0.66
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Dot and Dash
Dot; Dash
Dot and Dash are puzzled by a tortoise
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from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.05.22)
Miscellaneous
0.34
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Polly; Pa; Ashur
Ashur's cleaning fluid fails
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from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.05.22)
Miscellaneous
0.66
The Confidante

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Lina; Cathy; Frank Dunden; Lina's Partner
Frank is vilified by all the women in town
Reprinting
FlagDori Stories #[nn] published January 1999
as The Confidante [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
3
The Thirteen Fingers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
A journalist discovers a secret society
Reprinting
FlagManiac Killer Strikes Again! #[nn] published December 2003
 
Miscellaneous
8
Tor Johnson in the Country

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Tor Johnson; Tramp
Tor Johnson takes a trip to the country
Reprinting
FlagWarts and All #[nn] published January 1990
FlagHeavy Metal Magazine v11 #2 published January 1987
as Tor Johnson In The Country [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWarts and All #[nn] published March 1994
as Tor Johnson In The Country [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Hero of the Beach Revisited

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
A life saved by the ads in comics
Reprinting
FlagJustin Green's Binky Brown Sampler #[nn] published January 1995
 
Miscellaneous
2
Contributors

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Blurb for all the artists plus the conclusion of Gary Groth's intro.
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Miscellaneous
1
Treasure of the Lost Empire Chapter One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Rory Randall
Rory Randall; Cindy-Lou; Namron the Invincible; Will
Country singer Rory Randall engenders the wrath of a subterranean dictator
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Miscellaneous
15
[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas
ABELARD: No need to have any idea of his philosophy, nor even to know the titles of his works.
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Miscellaneous
1
Illustration of one of Flaubert's pithy sayings from The Dictionary of Received Ideas. From "Abelard" to "Authors."
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Dot and Dash
Dot; Dash
Dot and Dash find a box
Reprinting
from Dot and Dash Sumday (1927.03.06)
Miscellaneous
0.34
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pa; Polly
Pa goes hunting
Reprinting
from Polly and Her Pals Sumday (1927.03.06)
Miscellaneous
0.66
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Ad for Fantagraphics Books, including The Complete Popeye, Dickie Dare, Prince Valiant and Nemo: The Classics Comics Library.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1

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