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Issue: Critters #42

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Publication Date: September 1989

Issue #42
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Issues: #42 of 50 Issues (51 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fantagraphics

Brand: Fantagraphics Books

Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/28/1989

Volume: none

Pages: 28

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.50 CAD
$2.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On sale date from Amazing Heroes #167.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Herman; Janet

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Cover title logo is "Not the Adventures of Captain Jack."

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Captain's Letterbox

Character(s): Captain Jack (cameo)

First Line: Few comics have had as loyal a readership...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: Inside front cover, continued on last interior page and inside back cover. Illustrated letters from "Lookit the Cat" and Mac Crisafulli. Printed letters from Martin F. Tray; Jefferson P. Swycaffer; Greg Harris; Allan D. Burrows; and Charles E. Roe. Also a short intro to the issue's feature and promos for Critters #43 and Usagi Yojimbo Color Special #1 with covers depicted.

[untitled]

Reprise on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Captain Jack

First Line: Hi group, the Captain here.

Synopsis: Captain Jack narrates a recap of the events leading up to the story following and explaining why he isn't in the story.

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Pages: 1

The Cliches of Fiction

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Herman; Janet

Synopsis: Herman and Janet go job-hunting in the big city.

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Pages: 18

Notes: Captain Jack does not appear in the story.

A Song I Learned From Mudbelly

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): The Adventures of Captain Jack

Character(s): Woody Segar Paxton Dylan Jack III [Captain Jack]

Synopsis: Captain Jack is a street musician singing a folk song.

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Pages: 3

Notes: Mostly illustrated song lyrics.

Fantagraphics Books Proudly Presents...Fission Chicken

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Fission Chicken

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo for Fission Chicken #1 and also for available back issues of Critters which ran the feature. Cover to Fission Chicken #1 and some story pages from Critters are depicted.

Detective Story

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Hyper Al

Character(s): Hyper Al

Synopsis: Al tries to write using the light of a nearby flashing sign.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.