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Issue: The Comics Journal #58
Publication Date: September 1980
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Issues: #58 of 279 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1980
Volume:
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (0 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Regular cover price rises to 1.95 with this issue.
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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
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Editorial

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Explaining the cover price rise. Accompanied by an illustration by Boyette.
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I Remember Terry

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): David J. Levine
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Opening Shots
Synopsis: An ode to Caniff's Terry and the Pirates strip. Accompanied by a few of the daily strips.
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Pages: 1.5
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Newswatch
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Headlines of note include: Marvel Forms Film Studio; Bill Mantlo Taken Off Howard the Duck Magazine; Daredevil Drug Story Relocated Into Album; Steve Englehart Pulls Three Stories Written for DC; Comic Strips: Fletcher's Landing; Spiegelman and Mouly's "Raw" Premieres

Includes a half-page sample illustration from Douglas Coffin's Fletcher's Landing strip.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Blood & Thunder
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Pages: 10.87
Disclose Notes: Letters from Roy Thomas, Alan R. Ekblaw, Megan H. Christopher, Mark Burbey, P. Craig Russell, Mike Grell, Mark Der Marderosian, Mike Tiefenbacher, James D. True, Justin Hall, Alex Toth, Alan Wright, Margaret O'Connell, Tim Cooper, Kirk Philipps, David Stallman, Ricky Livingston, Ted White, Paul Adams

Also includes the following character illustrations: Thor by Martin Cannon; Mr. Fantastic/Thing by Chris O'Leary/Bill Anderson; Wonder Woman by Pro/Willie Blyberg; Doc Savage by Ricky Livingston
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Gor blimey! Looky wha' 'a marster's brung for ye!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On page 27.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Jim Kuzee [as Kuzee] (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Kuzee [as Kuzee] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On page thirty-eight.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: "Of War and Fighting Men"- Thompson reviews Russ Cochran's The Complete Two-Fisted Tales; "The Hammer of Faith"/ The Fastest Man, Bereaved"- Phillips reviews Marvel Premiere #54 and DC's Flash #270-84
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Marv Wolfman
First Line: Trapped for three hours in a room with Marty Pasko, Jim Shooter, Len Wein, Mark Evanier and (shudder!) Gary Groth...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On page forty-eight. Accompanies the article that follows.
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Martin Pasko, Jim Shooter, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, and Mark Evanier Debate Comic Book Writing

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 18.09
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by Kwapiscz illustrations of Marv Wolfman/Len Wein and Jim Shooter respectively. Rick Marschall contributes a cartoon of Marty Pasko and Mark Evanier

Paul Smith contributes a small-size Spider-Man illustration. Doug Herring contributes an illustration of Mr. Spock.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Marty Pasko; Jim Shooter; Len Wein
First Line: No! No! You don't understand!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: "From an idea by Marty Pasko"
On page fifty-four.

Thanks to Rodrigo Baeza for artist identification.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 0.41
Disclose Notes: Untitled cartoon on page sixty-seven.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? [as Carr] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Carr] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On page eighty. Accompanies an article by Dale Luciano for this magazine's recurring Cinema Journal column- The Empire Strikes Back: Popular Entertainment With a Human Touch
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The Stage is Set The History of the Comic Strip, Part Two: The Decline and Death of "Puck" Magazine

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Polychromatic Effulgence
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a few small-size cover reproductions of Puck magazine, one of them by Gordon Grant. Also includes some small-size images of F. Opper's work.
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Schizzing in the Real World

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Underground Comix
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Sherman reviews Robert Crumb's Best Buy Comics and Snoid Comics.
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Mckenzie and Miller's Daredevil: Skillful Use of the Medium

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Reticulated Rainbow
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Pages: 3
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Comics Checklist: September

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 3.5
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, fantasy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

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