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Issue: The Comics Journal #85
Publication Date: October 1983
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Issues: #85 of 279 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 116
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.95 CAD
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (0 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Content not indexed:
Table of Contents (including indicia): 1 page
Advertisements with a variety of cover reprints.
An Edge in My Voice by Harlan Ellison on experience with recent video games: 2.33 pages.
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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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Robert Kanigher

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Robert Kanigher; Irv Novick; Joe Kubert; Jerry Grandenetti; Russ Heath; Hawkman; Wonder Woman; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Sgt. Rock; Detective Chimp; Metal Men [Lead; Iron; Tin; Tina]; Phantom Stranger
Synopsis: Caricature of Robert Kanigher, smoking a pipe and typing. His comic characters are in front of him, while in back are caricatures of his artists, outfitted as members of Easy Company.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Front cover. Faces of [John] Severin and Ross Andru are obscured, but their names are on their helmets.
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Byrned Out

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ? (reprinted material); typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Opening Shots
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: Contains a small reprint of the cover and one page of art in The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #233, and interior art from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #71.
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What the Direct Sales Market Has Wrought Part Two: the Comics Renaissance

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Editorial
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): various (staff); various (previews)
Penciller(s): various (previews)
Inker(s): various (previews)
Letterer(s): various (previews)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): News Watch
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Blood and Thunder
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letters page that includes various illustrations and a cartoon. Split over several sections of the magazine.
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The Secret: Gaines, Wertham, and "Seduction of Ignorant"

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Quality Sez Who

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Russell Freund (credited); various (reprints)
Penciller(s): various (reprints)
Inker(s): various (reprints)
Letterer(s): typeset; various (reprints)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Contains various preview art from Marvel Fanfare (Marvel, 1982 series) #10.
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Freedom Under the Gun

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): various (reprints)
Penciller(s): various (reprints)
Inker(s): various (reprints)
Letterer(s): typeset; various (reprints)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Contains reprints of representative art.
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Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lee Wochner (credited); various (reprints)
Penciller(s): various (reprints)
Inker(s): various (reprints)
Letterer(s): typeset; various (reprints)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Contains reprinted material from The Night Force (DC, 1982-1983).
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Mixed Brew

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Contains reprinted material from Michael T. Gilbert's Strange Brew [m] (Aardvark-Vanaheim) 1982.
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The Golden Age Gladiator: Robert Kanigher

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): various (reprinted material); ? (photos)
Inker(s): various (reprinted material); ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset; various (reprinted material)
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Interview of Robert Kanigher by Robin Snyder, conducted at Kanigher's home on March 21, October 30, and December 19, 1982.
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Pages: 29
Disclose Notes: Part one of two. Part two is in Comics Journal #86.
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Bitter Harvest

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): various (reprinted material); ? (photos)
Inker(s): various (reprinted material); ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset; various (reprints)
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: An overview of censorship of movies and comic books.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Phases of Creativity

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gene Philips (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (cartoon)
Inker(s): ? (cartoon)
Letterer(s): typeset; ? (cartoon)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cinema Journal
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Contains movie stills. Printed on paged 99-107 and 113.

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