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Issue: The Comics Journal #44
Publication Date: January 1979
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Issues: #44 of 279 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (0 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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The Best & Worst of The Comics Journal By Our Readers

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First Line: "VOTE!"
Synopsis: Results from issue forty-two's request for reader votes on the magazine's best and worst efforts over the past year.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes voter comments from cat yronwode, Luc Pomerleau, Mark Kirkpatrick, Peter Eicher, Richard Shaffer, Gary Kwapisz, Ken Hart
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): NewsWatch
Synopsis: Headlines of note include "Marvel Plans 5 New Books, Cancels 12," "Ploog & Kirby Quit Marvel Over Contract Dispute," "Marvel to Publish Heavy Metal-Type Book," "The Sgt. Pepper Snafu" (about Marvel Super Special #7), "Detective Comics Observes Batman's 40th Anniversary," "DC Shelves Fan Club, Puts Fanzine in Limbo," "Future of Tabloid Comics in Doubt," "Star Hawks Book Due in May,"
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Pages: 7.33
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Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.17
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Feature(s): Blood & Thunder
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Letters from Roy Thomas, Bryan Uhlenbrock, Bob Hughes, Todd Goldberg, Harland Ronning, Terry Hamilton. Accompanied by a single illustration.

Continued on page 51.
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Writer(s): Jim Dawson (credited)
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comics Reviews
Synopsis: "Sidekicks and Sun Gods"- yronwode reviews Wonder Woman #248; "The Silver Surfer Soars Again" - review of Jack Kirby/Stan Lee's The Silver Surfer book published by Simon & Shuster; "Over-Priced & Over-Preissed"- Dawson pans the book "The Illustrated Roger Zelazny" published by Byron Preiss; "Night of Fury" / "Sabre's a Dull Blade" - Via praises Eclipse's Sabre graphic novel while Groth pans it.
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Pages: 7.66
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by these illustrations: Silver Surfer/Dr. Doom by Blyberg/Ordway; Silver Surfer by Kure and an unidentified inker. Also includes several small-size sample panels from Paul Gulacy's Sabre graphic novel
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
First Line: Shades of Pluto!
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Pages: 0.34
Disclose Notes: Accompanies cat yronwode's review on page 23.
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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On page twenty-five.
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An Interview with Marv Wolfman

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Penciller(s): Ricky Livingston (signed)
Inker(s): Ricky Livingston (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Shortly after my review of Spider-Woman 1 appeared ("Incest in the Marvel Family...")
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Pages: 13.57
Disclose Notes: Interview conducted July 22, 1978

Accompanied by the following small-size illustrations: Dracula by Taylor; Fantastic Four/Silver Surfer by Blyberg/de la Rosa; Spider-Man by Kure; Dr. Doom- Gammill; Daredevil- Livingston; Creeper/Spider-man by Blyberg/de la Rosa. Also includes an illustration by Cannon.
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The Amazing Spider-Clone

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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Synopsis: The front cover to Amazing Spider-Clone #15?.
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Pages: 0.28
Disclose Notes: Accompanies the previous article on page 36.
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Letters, from page 21

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First Line: ...lighting effects are shamelessly swiped from Wood (Eisner too)...
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Pages: 0.15
Disclose Notes: Letter from Terry Hamilton continued.
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Only Lines On Paper... The Best & Worst Underground Comix

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First Line: No matter how much a critic may protest to the contrary there's something beguiling about compiling best/worst lists.
Synopsis: Sherman pans Barney Steel's Armageddon, Spain's Mean Bitch Thrills, Vaughn Bode's Schizophrenia, Russ Jones/Bhob Stewarts's Tales from the Fridge. He praises Bijou Funnies #7, R. Crumb's Despair and People's Comix, Head Comix Cloud Comix #2, Girl Fight Comix #2, Grunt #2, Mother's Oats #1, The Pagfeek Papers, Pudge, the Girl Blimp #1-3, Richard Corben's Rowlf; Slow Death #4; Young Lust #2; Zap Comix #3.
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Pages: 2.66
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, superhero
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On page fifty-eight.
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The Best & Worst Comic Books

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Feature(s): Doc's Bookshelf
First Line: When Gary Groth first gave the assignment of writing a column discussing the best and worst comic books...
Synopsis: Decker lists his ten best comics ever.
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Pages: 2.66
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Junkyard

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On page 60.
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Cygnus or Bust

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, science fiction
Character(s): Dwight Decker
First Line: I'm glad the limit was 10 good books!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On page 61.
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Funny Papers on Strike!

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Writer(s): Jeffrey H. Wasserman (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jāch Spake
Character(s): Hagar the Horrible
First Line: When last we saw Dick Tracy, he and his son Junior...
Synopsis: What New York City comic strip fans had to do to get their comics fix during a printer's press union strike that laid the city's three major papers dormant.
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Pages: 1.69
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by two cartoons.
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The Fanny Awards- Saluting the Best & Worst in Fandom

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First Line: Best Fan Whining Award is a tie between Bill Dale Marcinko....
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Disclose Notes: Text accompanied by an illustration of a fanny.
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Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

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