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Issue: The Comics Journal #43
Publication Date: December 1978
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Issues: #43 of 279 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (0 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bruce Sweeney (contributing); Jonathan Speerloop III (contributing)
Disclose Notes: Paid circulation: 9500
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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, Wraparound
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound cover.
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Wit & Wisdom Word Balloons

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Brief blurbs about "strange or outrageous items concerning comics." Headlines include "Sick Satire of Marvel and DC," "Comic Books? Who? Us?," "On the Firing Line," "No Undergrounds for Overstreet," "A Fight to the Finnish."
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a panel from a Sick magazine story titled "The Beasts of Crockefeller Plaza" drawn by Sparling. Also includes small-size samples of a Stan Lee/John Romita Spider-Man newspaper strip, the cover to the eighth Overstreet Price Guide, a small Hulk cartoon illustration and a Rosa cartoon featuring Donald Duck, Daisy Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): G. Bell (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): NewsWatch
Synopsis: Notable headlines include "Ditko Back at Marvel," "Duck & Dracula May Continue," "Marvel Magazines: Property Problems," and under the DC section "Post Implosion Fill-In Fall Out," "Stability or Stagnation."
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.45
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a Batman illustration on page twelve.

The "Undergrounds" section notes that Art Spiegelman is planning to expand his Maus story to a 150-200 page volume.
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Parker] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Parker] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Blood & Thunder
Synopsis: Letters from Doug Moench, Arthur Byron Cover, Frank McGinty, Mike Gold, Sand Saraf, Bob Parsons, David Finger, Gerard F. Einhaus, Ian Grey-Starling, Deke Roberts, Mike Palmieri, Bryan D. Leys, Kevin Dewitt Reid, Ron Rheaume, Bob Hughes
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10.17
Disclose Notes: Spot illustrations- Herring- Hulk; Hazlewood- Howard the Duck, Deathlok, Sgt. Rock; Flame Taylor- Thanos and Warlock; Parker- Namor
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lyle Chesney (credited); Jim Dawson (credited); Frank Watson (credited)
Penciller(s): Martin Cannon (credited)
Inker(s): Martin Cannon (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comics Reviews
Synopsis: "Mantlo Plays the Right Card"- Chesney gives a positive review of Marvel Premiere #44; "Star-Bored"- Dawson pans Marvel Preview #4, #11, and #14; "The Delightful Antics of Popeye, Olive Oyl and Brutus"- Watson praises Gold Key/Western's Popeye the Sailor #140; "The Final Escape"- Dawson pans Mister Miracle #19-23
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Pages: 5.1
Disclose Notes: Cannon contributes a full page Jack of Hearts illustration and a smaller one; Other illustrations include: Popeye by Hazlewood; Mister Miracle by Kure
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Hey! Ralph!

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Ralph; Timmy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Accompanies the Jim Dawson's "Star-Bored" article on page thirty.
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Neal Adams- An Interview with the Extraordinary Artist of the X-Men, The Spectre, Deadman, Batman, The Avengers, Green Lantern and Green Arrow

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Martin Cannon [as Cannon] (signed); Jim McGreal [as McGreal] (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Cannon [as Cannon] (signed); Jim McGreal [as McGreal] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Interview conducted August 6, 1978 at the Hyattsville, Maryland Con-Con.

Accompanied by eight illustrations including a full-page one of the original X-Men by Cannon. Other illustrations include: Kure- Green Lantern; Adams- Conan, Batman; McGreal- Deadman; Cannon- Batman; Newton- Thor. Hembeck contributes a redrawn version of Strange Adventures #209, page 5.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Accompanies a text piece by Dwight R. Decker titled "A Writing Man of Mars."

On page 56.
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Bullpen Bull

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Long ago and far away, I worked on staff in the regimes of five different editors-in-chiefs at Marvel Comics-
Synopsis: Choice quotes Edelman heard from various comics luminaries including John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Roger Stern, Archie Goodwin, Jim Shooter and others.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.77
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Colwell's Mean Street Comix

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Underground Comix
First Line: Don't let the title mislead you: this isn't the Young Lust of the city projects...
Synopsis: A positive review of Inner City Romance #4.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.7
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a few small-size samples of the artist's work.
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Good Horse Art

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: This cover [illustration 1] is a stunning example of a genre of comic book collecting which,...
Synopsis: A sendup of the comic book collecting mentality.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a small size reproduction of the cover to Black Fury (Charlton, 1955 series) #27 (November 1960) and a few panels from the "Outlaw" story from that comic.
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South African Comics

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alternating Currents
First Line: By day he walks the streets as an ordinary citizen-
Synopsis: Reviewing the right wing South African comic Mighty Man and its racist underpinnings.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.93
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by the covers to Afri Comics's Mighty Man #19 and Tiger Ingwe: Master of Man and Beast as well as three sample panels.
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Mighty Man Propaganda

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Weismann (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Mighty Man is dead, zapped in Soweto by the very people he claimed to defend.
Synopsis: Detailing how publication of the Mighty Man comic was affected by a riot in Soweto, South Africa.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.42
Disclose Notes: Weismann is not the same person as cartoonist Steven Weissman who was born in 1968.

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