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Issue: The Comics Journal #47
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1979
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Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 USD
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Content Items: 10 (0 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Death of the Superheroes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Speerloop (Marvel UK segment only); ?
typeset
Subject Matter
NewsWatch
Headlines of note: "Diamond Symbol on Non-Returnable Marvel Comics to Prevent Dealer Fraud;" "Color Striping System to Aid Retailers;" "Mattel Buys Western;" "Marvel UK Now Producing Own Strips;" "Marvel Paperback Reprints Selling Well;" "Adventure Demoted to 32 Pages;" "Superman Creators Honored by SWFA"
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Miscellaneous
7.5
Accompanied by a small illustration cartoon by Grass Green and a Green Lantern illustration by Pharms/Blyberg
[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Editors] (reply)
typeset
Subject Matter
Blood & Thunder
Includes letters from Julie Simmons, John Benson, Harland Ronning, William C. Hoppe, Jr., Kevin DeWitt Reid, Lou Mougin, Ward O. Batty, Paul Levitz, Daniel Mishkin, Richard Howell, Mike Conden, Peter Eicher, Gordon Flagg
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Miscellaneous
6
Accompanied by the following illustrations: Ultra Boy by Kure; Captain America/Adolf Hitler by Crum; The Demon by ?; Ultra Boy/Iron Man by Houston/Hazelwood; Supergirl (uncredited/unsigned)
[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Comics Reviews
"Steve Englehart: Triple Threat Writer" - Via summarizes and praises the work of Englehart; "Silly Science, Fuzzy Fiction"- Askegren pans Marvel Super Special #10- Star Lord; "Hell-Fire on Wheels"- Hart praises Ghost Rider #35
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Miscellaneous
6.72
Includes the following spot illustrations- Hulk by Blyberg/De la Rosa; Joker by Gammill; ? by Eddings; Ghost Rider by Pelligrini; Ghost Rider by O'Connell

Full page illustrations- Dr. Strange by Cannon; Falcon/Captain America/Nomad by Wilber
The Death of the Superheroes

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
It was just another silly Doc Savage adventure.
On the creative and commercial decline of mainstream superhero comics.
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Miscellaneous
4.13
Accompanied by four illustrations.
Will Eisner Interview- Conclusion

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Kuzee (signed as Kuzee)
Jim Kuzee (signed as Kuzee)
typeset
Subject Matter
Will Eisner
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Miscellaneous
9
Continued from the previous issue. Includes three full-page illustrations and five spot illustrations, four of them by Eisner.

Interview conducted October 13 and 17, 1978 in Eisner's office.
Eisner the Master Stylist

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Panel Progressions
I felt that I was at the epitome of the medium...
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Miscellaneous
7
Accompanied by various sample panels of Eisner's work.
Stan Lee & Jenette Kahn at Temple University

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Reich Benasutti; Lawrence Speerloop
? (photo)
? (photo)
typeset
Subject Matter
Stan Lee (photo); Jenette Kahn (photo)
Philadelphia's Temple University hosted comics' two foremost publishers...
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Miscellaneous
1
Hooded Justice

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Doc's Bookshelf
Paul Levitz was recently interviewed in The Comic Readers (issue 165, February 1979)...
A critique of using masked vigilantes in real-life legal settings. "When Falls the Axe"- A lament for the cancelled World War II-based Invaders series. "Jack Kirby with Ducks" - About missing pages from Carl Barks's "Back to the Klondike" restored in a Dutch version of the story.
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Miscellaneous
2.33
Includes a spot illustration of DC's Hawk character by Blyberg/de la Rosa. Also includes an illustration of Marvel's The Invaders by Staszak.
Comics Checklist: June & July

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
Accompanied by the three spot illustrations- one by Blyberg/de la Rosa; Spider-Man by Gammill; Superman by Pelligrini

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