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Issue: Fast Fiction #23
Publication Date: January 1987
 
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Publisher: FlagFast Fiction
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Volume: none
Pages: 28
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Price: none entered
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Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Pinsent
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White with spot handcolouring on covers
Dimensions: UK A5 size (#1-7, 11-27, 30), UK A4 size (#8, 28-29), 7"x7.75" (#9)
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Binding: Saddle-stitched (#1-27, 30), side-stapled (#28-29)
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Cover, Front
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She Put On Her Sunday Best Clothes And Her Sunday Best Frame Of Mind

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
John Watson
John Watson
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Pinsent
Ed Pinsent
Ed Pinsent
Ed Pinsent
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Miscellaneous
1
The Unexplained

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Tom Tiffin
Tom Tiffin
Tom Tiffin
Tom Tiffin
Subject Matter
humorous
Mr. Higgins
In 1957 Mr. Higgins has an alien encounter.
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Miscellaneous
4
Dead Trees

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert Camus; Graham Johnstone
Graham Johnstone
Graham Johnstone
Graham Johnstone
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Miscellaneous
2
The strip adapts a passage from Camus' 'The Outsider'.
The Chain Letter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Grist
Paul Grist
Paul Grist
Paul Grist
Subject Matter
autobiography
Paul Grist
Paul Grist's luck takes a turn for the worst when he discards a chain letter.
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Miscellaneous
3
Unfinished Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Placid
Placid
Placid
Placid
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Miscellaneous
2
Spy Alarm Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Watson
John Watson
John Watson
John Watson
Subject Matter
humorous
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Miscellaneous
2
Sav's Savage Fury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Lynch
Bob Lynch
Bob Lynch
Bob Lynch
Subject Matter
humorous
Sav Sadness
Sav Sadness; Dim Sadness; Kevin; Matilda
Sav is annoyed by his son, and escalates matters during a visit to the pub.
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Miscellaneous
3
The Haters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colin Upton
Colin Upton
Colin Upton
Colin Upton
Subject Matter
autobiography
Colin Upton; Krusty Ken; G.X. Juppiter; Jeff
Colin Upton remembers a noise gig in which he participated.
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Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Rodney Rigby
Rodney Rigby
Rodney Rigby
Rodney Rigby
Subject Matter
humorous
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Miscellaneous
2
Fishtale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Denny Derbyshire
Denny Derbyshire
Denny Derbyshire
Denny Derbyshire
Subject Matter
A glimpse under the sea.
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Miscellaneous
3
The Haunted Chequerboard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Phil Laskey [as Marina Swann]
Phil Laskey [as Marina Swann]
Phil Laskey [as Marina Swann]
Phil Laskey [as Marina Swann]
Subject Matter
A ghost story.
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Miscellaneous
1
This is a very unusual style for Laskey, perhaps pastiching other Fast Fiction contributors, and without the attribution of editor Ed Pinsent's website would be all but unidentifiable as his work.

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