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Issue: ACT-I-VATE Primer #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2009
 
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Publisher: FlagIDW
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Indicia Publisher: IDW Publishing
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781600105289
UPC/EAN: 978160010528952499
Price: $24.99 USD
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Content Items: 19 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Four Color
Dimensions: 9.5" x 7"
Paper Stock: Bond
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Graphic Novel
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Persimmon
Character(s): Persimmon
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Pages: 1
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Foreword

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Cactus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Boston Zegas; Emily Zegas
Synopsis: The surreal urban adventures of the recently orphaned Zegas siblings.
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Pages: 12
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Sam & Lilah

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Genres: romantic
Feature(s): Sam & Lilah
Character(s): Sam; Lilah
Synopsis: A budding love affair between two fashionable urban twenty-somethings is imperiled by a gypsy curse. Romantic modern-day mythology with a touch of manga flavor.
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Pages: 6
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When Lilly Met Cosmo...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lilly Mackenzie; Cosmo Judd
Synopsis: A prequel tale that reveals how Lilly Mackenzie and Cosmo Judd first met.
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Pages: 12
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The Boy Who Came to Stay

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wugwhump the Great
Character(s): Mughwhump
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Pages: 6
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The Tale of the Elephant Cowboy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: western
Feature(s): Tales of the Floating Elephant
Character(s): Lillie Smith; Theodore Beckerman; Harold Beckerman; Peaceful Charlie
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Pages: 12
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Veils

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Loviathan
Character(s): Ultan; Llyr; Nemausus; Orolus; Ainé [Ann Barnett]; Liam Barnett
Synopsis: The wedding feast of Llyr, heir-apparent to Atlantis, and the future queen, Aine of Celestan; intrigue between King Llyr and his jealous brother Ultan
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Pages: 12
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Bring Me the Heart of Billy Dogma

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: erotica, humorous, romantic
Character(s): Billy Dogma; Jane Legit
Synopsis: Billy is on the outs with Jane, and their estrangement disrupts the natural order of the universe.
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All Men Are Whores

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cootie Brown (Ghost Pimp); Dave Sanders; Alice
Synopsis: Sitcom-style goof about the war between the sexes.
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Memoirs of the 'Kid Immortal'

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Ultra-Lad
Character(s): Kid Immortal; Ultra-Lad
Synopsis: Pastiche of a pulp potboiler concerning an amoral Captain Marvel-esque eternal child-hero inside a series of unworthy adult personalities.
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Pages: 12
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Vulcan & Vishnu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Vulvan; Vishnu
Synopsis: The travels and travails of two honest workmen devising their way around obstacles and through calamities on their way to "fortune and glory."
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Rat-Chicken

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: biography
Feature(s): Underwire
Character(s): Jennifer
Synopsis: Slice-of-life autobiographical story
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Persimmon Cup

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Persimmon; Garo
Synopsis: Persimmon, a sort of historian/judge, receives an illicit gift from a secret admirer.
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Slow News Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Johnny Panama; Elizabeth Delancy
Synopsis: The adventures of gossip-mongers/failed two vaudevillians.
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Goodnight Max

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Jack & Max
Character(s): Jack; Max
Synopsis: Two super-powered siblings.
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Pages: 12
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Esqueleto

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Glam
Synopsis: Grungy cyberpunk trash universe sort of like Candyland with little stuffed animals.
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Motro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Motro
Character(s): Moto
Synopsis: A reclusive young boy with superhuman strength tries to live up to the expectations of his dead father.
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Creator Bios

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Letterer(s): typeset
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