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Issue: The Comics Journal #156
Publication Date: February 1993
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Issues: #156 of 279 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 116
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 07447074114503
Price: $5.95 CAD
$4.95 USD
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Content Items: 15 (5 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover by Gahan Wilson. Interviews with Gahan Wilson and Doug Allen. Obituary for Peyo [Pierre Culliford]. Sketchbook by Mark Martin. No letters.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black & white (#32-36); color covers; black & white interiors with occasional color (#37 & up)
Dimensions: tabloid (#32-36); standard magazine size (#37 - 287)
Paper Stock: newsprint (#32 - ?)
Binding: foldout tabloid (#32-36); saddle-stitched (#37 - 244); squarebound (#63; 100; 200; 210; 235; 245 & up)
Publishing Format: ongoing series
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Master of the Macabre: Gahan Wilson

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dennis Daniel (credited) (interviewer)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22.1
Disclose Notes: An interview with Gahan Wilson, conducted by Dennis Daniel.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I wish you'd learn to use the service entrance!
Synopsis: A butler admonishes a man carrying a bundle that appears to contain a body.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.3
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: We're here, Harry!
Synopsis: A woman in a hotel room talks to her husband, who is packed away in a trunk.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) # ? (1959?)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Identified from reprint in "Classic Cartoons from Playboy #1960."
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I don't like the looks of your face, Mac!
Synopsis: An extremely ugly man accosts a man at a bar.
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Reprint Notes: from ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cutline is on the facing page margin, not on the same page as the cartoon.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dick Tracy
First Line: Damn it -- I told them I was too well known for undercover work!
Synopsis: Dick Tracy is easily captured by criminals while trying to go under cover.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) # ?
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Pages: 0.15
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Harry, I really think you ought to go to the doctor.
Synopsis: In an understatement, a wife talks to her husband, whose head has turned into that of a monster, as they walk down the street.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Original was in full-color.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Funny thing. Eddie was always sure a meteor would get him.
Synopsis: While walking down a city street, a man is hit by a meteor.
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Reprint Notes: from Fantasy and Science Fiction # ?
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Pages: 0.4
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, science fiction
First Line: Thank God!
Synopsis: A little man in a helmet, on display as "Bosco the Man from Mars" at a carnival, welcomes the arrival of a flying saucer.
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Reprint Notes: from Fantasy and Science Fiction # ?
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Pages: 0.15
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Nuts
First Line: You think that being a little kid was great?
Synopsis: The little boy is sick and imagines what will happen to him if he dies.
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Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: On the other hand, if I'm dead, so what!
Synopsis: A man comes to a depressing conclusion while attempting suicide.
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Reprint Notes: from ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.2
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Idiot of the Savant-Garde: Doug Allen

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Kelly (credited) (interviewer)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Interview with Doug Allen, conducted by John Kelly.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Hunt Emerson
First Line: Ah --- Angoulême!! How well I recall...
Synopsis: Hunt Emerson's memories of Angoulême 1992 and a proposal for a fanciful contest based on an historical event that happened there in 1806.
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Pages: 2
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These Gauls are Crazy!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Colin Upton
Synopsis: Colin Upton's memories of Angoulême 1992.
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In Content Item: FlagBig Thing Collected Comic Storys 1990-1993 #[nn] published January 1993
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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My Trip to France

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Roberta Gregory; Donna Barr (cameo)
First Line: Why do you choose to work in black and white?
Synopsis: Roberta Gregory's memories of her trip to France and Angoulême 1992.
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Pages: 2
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Angoulême: Select Memories of Donna Barr

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Donna Barr; Colin Upton; Robert Gregory; Kim Thompson (cameo); Robert Crumb
First Line: The mayor's reception in the town hall (Comics got respect)!
Synopsis: Donna Barr's memories of her trip to Angoulême 1992.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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