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Issue: The Comics Journal #53
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #53 of 279 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 148
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.00 USD
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Content Items: 21 (0 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Also includes a seven page interview with illustrator Kelly Freas.

The back cover is a promo ad for the issue contents with a Green Lantern Hal Jordan/John Stewart illustration by Neal Adams.
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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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A Hell-Raising Interview with Harlan Ellison

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Harlan Ellison (photo)
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Pages: 1
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): NewsWatch
Character(s): Jenette Kahn (photo); Louise Jones (photo)
Synopsis: Headlines of note: "DC Boosts Story Pages to 25, Trims Ads, Hikes Price to 50¢," "Here Come the Backups!," "Marvel Unimpressed with DC's Move," "Marvel Newspaper Advertising Supplement Succeeds, Goes Quarterly," "Louise Jones Joins Marvel Staff," "Gold Key Comics Line Discontinued," "Comic Strips: Hal Foster Retires," "Undergrounds: Cruse to Edit Gay Comic Book"
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by two photos, one of Louise Jones taken by Catron. Also includes sixteen small-size reproductions of various covers and panels.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo); Jim Kuzee (signed as Kuzee)
Inker(s): ? (photo); Jim Kuzee (signed as Kuzee)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Blood & Thunder
Character(s): Lynn Graeme (photo); Ralph Macchio (photo); Rick Marschall (photo)
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Pages: 12.5
Disclose Notes: Letters from John Byrne (as John L. Byrne), Andrew N. Wilson, Bryan D. Leys, Bill Mantlo, Wendy & Richard Pini, John Clifton, William Hansen, Charles Lee Jackson II, Werner Leupold, Marv Wolfman, Lynn Graeme & Ralph Macchio, Bill Henley, Jr., Jeffrey B. Gelb, William Stout, Carol Kalish (as Carol B. Kalish)

Continued on page 135.

Includes illustrations of: Two-Face by Hernandez and Wonder Woman by Potts. Also includes a small illustration by Kuzee and an uncredited photo of Graeme, Macchio and Marschall.
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The Brotherhood of Evil Muppets

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (signed)
Penciller(s): ? (signed)
Inker(s): ? (signed)
Letterer(s): ? (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Kermit the Toad; Gonzo-Mind; Quickbeaker; Blob Bear; The Scarlet Sow
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Pages: 0.34
Disclose Notes: On page twenty-one.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Newsome [as Newsome] (signed)
Penciller(s): Jim Newsome [as Newsome] (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Newsome [as Newsome] (signed)
Letterer(s): Jim Newsome [as Newsome] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: .... an' then Biotron an' Acroyear slipped through the space hole into the Planet Earth to escape the evil Baron Karza...
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Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: On page twenty-six.
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Uh-Oh, Here Comes Jack Kirby, Now...

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): J. Squid (signed)
Penciller(s): J. Squid (signed)
Inker(s): J. Squid (signed)
Letterer(s): J. Squid (signed)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Neal Adams; IRS agent
First Line: Well, Mr. Adams.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On page thirty-four.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comics Reviews
First Line: Multi-issue epics are pretty much taboo at Marvel Comics these days..
Synopsis: "Project Pegasus: The Six-Month War"- Via reviews Marvel Two-in-One #53-58. "Ho Ho Ho Howard- A Feeble Yuletide Yarn"- O'Connell pans Howard the Duck magazine #3.
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Pages: 3.66
Disclose Notes: Includes illustrations of The Thing by Blyberg/de la Rosa. Also includes four small-size sample panels of Colan/Simons art from Howard the Duck magazine #3.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Book Reviews
First Line: History is easy to sentimentalize if you take it in parts and fragments.
Synopsis: "Panels of History"- Sherman reviews Jack Jackson's Comanche Moon book. "The American Comic Strip At Its Finest"- Howell reviews Comic Art Publishing Company's Steve Canyon collected editions.
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Pages: 3.69
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a few sample panels of both Jackson and Caniff's work plus a Steve Canyon tribute cartoon by Howell.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Jeepers, Trina why do you always put that funny black shadow under my nose?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On page forty-six.
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An Interview With Trina Robbins- The First Lady of Underground Comix

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Trina Robbins (photo)
First Line: It took me a couple of years after I first discovered her...
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Pages: 10.5
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a photo and ten small-size samples of her work.
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The 7 Deadly Comics Cliches

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Clifton (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Since a typical reader will jump down to the middle of a sensationalistic article...
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Pages: 5.07
Disclose Notes: "How, By Bowing Under to the Demands of Hardcore Fans, Comics Writers Are Locking Themselves Into..."

Accompanied by four illustrations.
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The Comics Journal's First Annual Future Events Contest

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as The Editors]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: One of our favorite magazines, New Times, fell prey to the problems of a dwindling readership...
Synopsis: Inspired by New Times magazine's Future Events Contents, winner to receive a year's worth of Marvel Comics and a lifetime Comics Journal subscription.
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Pages: 2.37
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a single small illustration.
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The Harlan Ellison Interview

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Harlan Ellison (photo)
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Pages: 32.5
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by two illustrations and eight photos.

The comments about Michael Fleisher that led him to sue both Ellison and Groth are on pages 94-95.
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Postscript from Ellison

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Harlan Ellison (photo)
First Line: I suppose this is a footnote to the interview I did with you...
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The author's thoughts on the Rick Marschall interview from the previous issue.
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Stahlmann The Man of Steel: Adolf Hitler's Comic Masterpiece

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Stahlmann; Adolf Hitler
Synopsis: A satirical recounting of Adolf Hitler's supposed comics career in Germany drawing a Superman-analog character called Stahlmann.
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Pages: 6.33
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An Interview With Murray Boltinoff

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 3.43
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by two illustrations
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From "Letters," Page 36

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First Line: ...demands are made that such negative stereotyping end and that more enlightened characterization...
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Pages: 0.35
Disclose Notes: The rest of Carol B. Kalish's letter.
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Neal Adams, Comics Premier Realist

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: When 25-year-old Neal Adams first walked, portfolio in hand, into the office of DC editor...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by eight samples of Adams' work.
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Comics Checklist: February

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.42
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Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.08
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

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