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Issue: Heck!: Comic Art of the Late 1980's #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1989
 
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Publisher: FlagRip Off Press
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Indicia Publisher: Rip Off Press, Inc.
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Pages: 100
ISBN: 0896201120
UPC/EAN: 978089620112550795
Price: $11.50 CAD
$7.95 USD
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Content Items: 39 (29 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: According to Don Donahue in the introduction, this is the first ever collection of all-new underground material in book form.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers, Black & White Interiors
Dimensions: 10.81" x 8.31" (27.45 cm x 21.10 cm)
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Binding: Softcover
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endpage filled with small negative-image illustrations taken from the story contents
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Heck!: Comic Art of the Late 1980s

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title and publisher page; copyright and dedications page; table of contents page with eight small illustrations taken from the story contents
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Introduction

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Magnifique
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A four-panel vertical strip
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In Heck

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brief blurbs on all the artists
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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Jim; Jean; Jean; Johnny; Vera; Charlie; Chuck; Hannah
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Acid Rain Chronicles

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FlagFlash Marks #[nn] published June 1989
 
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Bootin' Toons

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Dog Boy
Dog Boy; George Herbert Walker Bush
Dog Boy makes a plan to bite the President where he least expects it.
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Life and Times of Thomas House

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Thomas House; Grandmother
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The Other Day

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Dirty Father Harry, Private Celibate Dick: “Idle Hands, Idle Glands”

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Dirty Father Harry
Dirty Father Harry
A tough-talking pastor who uses extreme methods to punish sins.
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One Day At the Bank

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Leah Louise; Ashley
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Behind the 8-Ball

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Doctor; 8-Ball; Planarian Fmu
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Dave the Death Chef

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Dave; Jake
The secret ingredient for Dave's famous chili.
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Shithead & Winky: “What's Wrong With the Youth?”

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Shithead & Winky
Shithead; Winky
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Fine Art My Ass!

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Artist; Model
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In this jam strip Dan drew the artist and Krystine drew the model.
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Mike

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Mike
Mike can't stand the swimming pool's cold water.
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Skulls n' Stiffs

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Mary Fleener; Mary's Friend; Dad
Mary talks about the time her friend's dad, a mortician, took them to his mortuary to make a plaster cast of a corpse's head.
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FlagLife of the Party: The Complete Autobiographical Collection #[nn] published December 1996
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Cool Jerk

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A Painful Five Pig Blat
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Barb'ra-Ann

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John Tulip; Steve Ross; Norm Emerson; Hunt Emerson; Pete Reynolds
The artist talks about one particular performance of his mid-sixties covers band.
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Hello?

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A Night

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Julie
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FlagDirty Plotte #3 [unnamed variant] published April 1991
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Family Party

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FlagDirty Plotte #3 [unnamed variant] published April 1991
 
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In the Fridge

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Kirk; Ed; Chuck; Ranger; Stan
A night with the fridge man at the convenience store.
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Shades

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Pete
Pete's worldview changes after he gets a new pair of shades.
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Anatomy Class or "The Cutting Edge"

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A nude model slowly loses his limbs.
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Ultra Science!

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The Party Girls Cook Up a Warm Welcome At...

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Miss Judd; Mr. Furgeson; Miss Beasly
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The Chalk Artist

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Greg; Girl
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FlagBrain Capers #1 published August 1993
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Honeymoon

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Brenda; Otto; Mother; Neville
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Va-Va-Voom!

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Post War Jerks

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FlagLove That Bunch #[nn] published July 1990
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The Comic Book Adventures of Captain Krygo! America's Real Action Hero!

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Captain Krygo; Corporal Walensky; Private Goylem; Juan; Fatima; Stevens; Jimmy
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Zoot Suit

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Henry
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The Checkered Demon
Checkered Demon
Last Call! or: The Checkered Demon and his toadies thump the bartender...
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FlagThe Collected Checkered Demon #1 published January 1998
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BZZT!

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A helluva cross-section of the new generation of commix-scrawlers.
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This back cover features quotes from Art Spiegelman, Paul Krassner and Harvey Pekar; accompanied by a nearly full-page illustration.

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