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Issue: The Comics Journal #38
Publication Date: February 1978
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Issues: #38 of 279 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1978
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: A note at the bottom of page five states "paid circulation: 9,000"
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inked by Cornell due to deadline problems.
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): NewsWatch
Synopsis: Headlines include "DC Announces Format Change 50¢- 40 Page Books in June"; "The Story of 40 Page Comics"; "The Ever-Rising Cost of Comics"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (reply)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Blood & Thunder
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.82
Disclose Notes: Letters from Larry Charet, Bill Cantey
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Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.18
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comics Reviews
Synopsis: "Steel and Fire from Conway"- Phillips writes a positive review of DC's Steel #1 and gives a negative review of Firestorm #1. "Women's Lib and DC"- Bethke gives a mixed review of DC's Showcase #97
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Asterix: "These Frenchmen Are Crazy"

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Decker brings background info for the American reader, bringing them up to date on René Goscinny's Asterix comic.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Includes several small-size samples of Goscinny's work.
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Renee Goscinny 1026-1977

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: A tribute to Renee Goscinny from Don Rosa and the staff of the Comics Journal.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On page thirty.
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An Interview With Gil Kane

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.52
Disclose Notes: Interview conducted at Boston's Newcon (October 20-22, 1977(?)) and at New York's Thanksgiving Creation Con (November 19, 1977(?)). Accompanied by many samples of his work including an illustration from an article titled "The Army's Secret Race to Perfect the Death Ray" from True magazine, April 1973.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Dushkind (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fandom Review
Synopsis: A negative review of the second issue of Crimmer's: The Harvard Journal of Pictorial Fiction which focused on the work of Burne Hogarth.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.8
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The Kingdom and the Power of Jack Katz

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A positive review of Jack Katz's The First Kingdom series.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3.35
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Pop Syke
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Howard the Duck Sunday (The Register and Tribune Syndicate, Inc.) (1977-07-03 - 1977-07-17)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Printed in the landscape format. The first page is printed twice. On pages 63-66.

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