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Issue: The Comics Journal #64
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1981
Volume:
Pages: 116
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 USD
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Content Items: 11 (0 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Laura K. Beal (editorial assistant)
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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
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typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
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1
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NewsWatch
Headlines of note include: "Pacific Comics Plans Two Titles Exclusively for Specialty Shop Sales," "Marvel to Distribute Micronauts Only Through Direct Sales," "The Direct Sales Boom," "Marvel Picks Up Dennis the Menace," "Marvel Cuts All Reprints Except One," "Gene Colan Picks Up Batman, Wonder Woman at DC," "Whitman: Now 32 Pages of Editorial Content," "Captain Canuck Dies with 14th Issue," "Cerebus Struggling to Get Back on Monthly Schedule," "Smithsonian Volume to Reprint Classic Comic Book Stories," "RAW #3: 48 Pages, Including 20-Page Story."
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Miscellaneous
14.3
Accompanied by: small-size Dennis the Menace illustration by Ketcham; sample panels of Colan's work on Batman #340; most of page eight from All Star Squadron #1; panel from Steranko's Outland strip; detail from the cover to Cerebus #26; sample strip from Perry Howze's early 80s strip Verbena; May 26, 1981 Father's Day strip by Nancy and Mario Risso; Neal Adams fill-in work for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century newspaper strip dated May 17, 1981; Don Rosa "Captain Kentucky" illustration; sample panels from Bob "Boze" Bell's Honkytonk Sue #5; Ms. Tree panel from Eclipse #2; some panels from RAW #3; three panels from Keiji Nakazawa's Gen of Hiroshima #2;

Also includes small size reproductions of these covers: Micronauts #33, Marvel Super Heroes #102, Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandoes #166; the unpublished Captain Canuck #15 cover; Greg Irons' portfolio The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Nard n' Pat #2; Kitchen Sink's Mod #1
A Blood & Thunder Special- The Journal's Critics Disagree

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Blood & Thunder
Are comics critics failed comics professionals?
A letter from Bill Mantlo accusing the magazine's critics of being, in essence, resentful, failed comics writers. Followed by several rebuttals.
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5.86
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
I think he's trying to tell us something...
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0.56
On page 26.
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The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
"Raw Roots"/"Raw: Pataphysical Spirit and Graphic Possibilities": Scholz and Luciano each positively review RAW #1 and 2; "The Good and the Bad of Shang-Chi"- Phillips gives a mixed review Master of Kung Fu #100; "Good Junk"/"Trasho Bizarro"- Fiore and Luciano each review Bizarre Adventures #25; "Biased Encyclopedia from Horn"- Patten reviews Maurice Horn's "The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons"
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20.54
Capsule reviews: Luciano- Charlton Bullseye #1, DC Comics Presents #34, Moon Knight #7-8, Dazzler #3-4, Captain Canuck #14; Fiore- Hunt Emerson's Thunderdogs; Thompson- Marvel Spotlight #9-11, La Guerre des Bonkes (Christian Godard/Julio Ribera); Sherman- Spirit #26, Zippy #3

Accompanied by some sample panels from the following: Raw #3 including Art Spiegelman, Jacques Tardi, Kaz, Mark Beyer, Drew Friedman, Bill Griffith; Bizarre Adventures #25; Hunt Emerson's Thunderdogs

Also includes reproductions of these pages: page 12 and most of page 22 from Master of Kung Fu #100; a page from Will Eisner's The Spirit #26; a page from Christian Godard and Julio Ribera's La Guerre des Bonkes. Also includes small size cover images of The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, Charlton Bullseye #1, Marvel Spotlight #9, Moon Knight #8, Dazzler #4.
Forum- Gil Kane & Denny O'Neil On Comics Writing

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Gil Kane (photo); Denny O'Neil (photo)
Gil Kane is unquestionably one of the most accomplished artists in comics...
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18
Conversation was taped November 1980.

Accompanied by four photos.
Lust Among the Ruins

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Underground Comix
In both longevity and consistency, Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney's Young Lust has arguably been...
A positive review of Young Lust #6.
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Miscellaneous
3
Accompanied by three samples from the comic, two of them by Griffith.
Some Opinionated Bastards

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Fandom Review
What happens when a retired comics artist decides to spend his golden years editing a fanzine?
A generally positive review of C. C. Beck's FCA/SOB fanzine.
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Miscellaneous
1
Accompanied by a small size sample image of the front cover to FCA/SOB #5.
Comics Checklist: June 1981

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typeset
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Miscellaneous
4.5
Accompanied by small size images of the covers to: All Star Squadron #1, Krypton Chronicles #1, Detective Comics #506, Unexpected #214, Charlton Bullseye #3, Creepy #129, Eerie #123, Elfquest #10
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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1
Inside back cover.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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science fiction
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1
Back cover.

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