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Issue: The Comics Journal #60
Publication Date: November 1980
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Issues: #60 of 279 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 108
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.95 USD
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Content Items: 13 (2 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Preview: Detective 500

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (intro)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: On pages eight and nine.

Includes images of the cover from Detective Comics #500 plus page two of the "The Final Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe!" story and page twenty from the "What Happens When a Batman Dies?" story from that issue. Also includes a handful of panels of Joe Kubert and Dick Giordano's contributions to that issue.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): NewsWatch
Character(s): John Byrne (photo)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.5
Disclose Notes: Headlines of note: Artists Play Musical Chairs at Marvel; John Byrne leaves X-Men for FF; Marvel Universe and Marvel Showcase: Super-Heroes Graduate to Slick Paper; Marvel Writers Lose Claims to Original Artwork

Accompanied by the full-page Gulacy illustration that was used for the cover to Bizarre Adventures #25; also includes a few Steve Bissette sketches meant for an upcoming issue of Marvel Preview and a small John Byrne "good girl" illustration of Jean Grey as Black Queen.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (replies)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Blood & Thunder
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.5
Disclose Notes: Letters from David Cuccio, Gene Phillips, Kevin Krieg, Doug Kushnerick, Byron Erickson, Kevin DeWitt Reid, Dan Madaj, Stephen Weakley, Valeria Beasley, James van Hise, P. Craig Russell, Ted White, Amy Sheldon, Todd Goldberg, William Hassen, Vallard Eading

Accompanied by a Mark Lewis illustration of Rog 2000

Also includes an editorial from the editors clarifying some misconceptions about the Roy Thomas/Jim Shooter cartoon from page 107 in the previous issue.

continued on page fifty-four
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pott Shots
Character(s): Hennesy; Boss
First Line: Watcha' drawin' there, Hennesy?
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On page thirty-five.
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Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
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Pages: 4.5
Disclose Notes: Philips praises Alex Toth's "Bravo for Adventure" from Rook #3, 4; Sherman reviews Raw magazine #1

Capsule reviews- Philips on Adventure Comics #476, Groth on Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies
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The Life, Death and Resurrection of EC Comics

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Review of Russ Cochran's The Complete Weird Science, The Complete Tales from the Crypt, The Complete Two-Fisted Tales
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Pages: 5.91
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From "Letters," page 37

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (reply)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.77
Disclose Notes: Vallard Eading's letter from page thirty-seven continued; also includes a letter from Lou Mougin
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Pushing Marvel into the '80s: An Interview with Jim Shooter

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Al Milgrom (photo)
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Pages: 19.7
Disclose Notes: Interview conducted September 1980 in Shooter's office at Marvel.

Accompanied by three photos and thirteen spot illustrations: She-Hulk by Hernandez; Black Widow by Hembeck/Bruning; John Carter by Chuck Patton; Captain America- Chris O'Leary; Dr. Strange and Kraven the Hunter- Paul Smith; The Hulk- Scott Pelligrini; Daredevil- Chris O'Leary/Bill Anderson; Red Sonja- Stephen Schwartz
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The Age of Funny Pictures- The History of the Comic Strip, part three: "Judge" Magazine- The Breeding Ground of Pictorial Humor

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Polychromatic Effulgence
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.73
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by a George Herriman strip for Judge magazine; a Dr. Seuss cover to the March 23, 1929 issue of Judge magazine; a political cartoon by Grant Hamilton; two cartoons by Sullivant and one by Outcault
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Comics Checklist: October 1980

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3.5
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Coming Next Issue: Roy Thomas Interview

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. The inside back cover is apparently a preliminary version of this image.

Incorrectly credited to Ken Macklin in the table of contents.

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