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Issue: The Comics Journal #56
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1980
Volume:
Pages: 92
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 USD
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Content Items: 13 (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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
western
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Miscellaneous
1
Cover image was originally slated for Jonah Hex and Other Western Tales digest #4 before it was cancelled.
A Space Cadet No More

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as The Editors] (intro)
typeset
Subject Matter
Opening Shots
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Miscellaneous
1.66
Review of P. Craig Russell's Night Music #1, a completely opposite perspective from R. Fiore's review in TCJ #54. Accompanied by a four-panel sequence.
Roy Thomas Leaves Marvel- Signs On With DC to Write 100 Pages a Month

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Newswatch
Roy Thomas (photo); Jim Shooter (photo)
In-depth rundown of the writer/editor setup at Marvel during the seventies.
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Miscellaneous
4
Accompanied by two photos and a small-size image of King Conan #3.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photo); ?
? (photo); ?
typeset
Subject Matter
Newswatch
Charles Rodrigues (photo); Marv Wolfman (photo)
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Miscellaneous
5.5
Headlines of note included "Marvel to Publish James Bond Comic," "Wolfman and Wein Revive Dial H for Hero Comic," "Metal Hurlant Goes Bankrupt," "Comic Strips: Hello Carol Debuts"
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Rudi Franks (signed); Hanley (signed); McGreal
Rudi Franks (signed); Hanley (signed); McGreal
typeset
Subject Matter
Blood & Thunder
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Miscellaneous
6.57
Letters from Pierce Askegren, Phillip B. Klinger, Patrick Garabedian, Brian Snell, Gary L. Day, David Seidman, Jim McPherson, Bob Soron, David Stallman, Peter Eicher, Raymond Hopkins, Tim Cooper, James Lentini

Accompanied by four illustrations.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Stephen McGonagle; Greg Huneryager
Martin
Martin
typeset
Subject Matter
Comics Reviews
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Miscellaneous
6.97
Stallman reviews the Underhanded History of the USA and Legion of Super Heroes #262 and 263; McGonagle reviews Batman #319; Huneryager reviews the Tomb of Dracula series as a whole. Capsule reviews of Captain America #247 and The Hulk! #21 by Thompson as well as Machine Man #12 by Luciano
The Blessed Life of Michael Fleisher- An Interview With the Man Who Stuffed Jonah Hex

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Michael Kure (signed); Russell Duket
Michael Kure (signed); Chris O'Leary
typeset
Subject Matter
Michael Fleisher (photo)
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Miscellaneous
25
Accompanied by approximately seven illustrations, twelve samples from his comics work and six tiny-size cover images.
Dissent: Before the Bomb

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Underground Comix
Review of Gen of Hiroshima #1.
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Miscellaneous
1.09
Acccompanied by a small-size Keiji Nazakawa page.
Dissent: After the Bullets

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Underground Comix
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Miscellaneous
1.52
Stallman reviews Cliff Harper's Class War Comix #1. Accompanied by two capsule reviews by Sherman for Rip Off Comix #6 and Forty Year Old Hippie #2.
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Conway (signed)
Conway (signed)
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Mighty Mouse standing on a missile with Heckle and Jeckle laughing in the background.
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Miscellaneous
1
On page eighty-two. Artist not listed in the contributing artists section in the title page.
Comics Checklist: June

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2.19
Princess Python

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
erotica, superhero
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
From the Desk of Neal Adams...

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous, superhero
Well... ex-cuuuuuu-uuse me!
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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