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Issue: Big Bang Comics #5
Publication Date: October 1996
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Issues: #5 of 35 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagImage
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Image Comics
On Sale Date: 10/30/1996
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from the ComicList Database as compiled by Charles LePage with information from Sun Coast Comics.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior (#1-6), later black and white (#7 and up)
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Top Secret Origins!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Big Bang Comics
Character(s): Mighty Man; Knight Watchman; Silver-Age Blitz; Golden-Age Ultiman; Ultiman's Secret Citadel
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Tribute to various covers that graced the DC reprint Giants over the years, and to DC's Secret Origins title.
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The Top-Secret Origin of the Blitz

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Fourth appearance, second solo story; previous appearance in Big Bang Comics (Image, 1996 series) #4 (September 1996); next appearance in Big Bang Comics (Image, 1996 series) #9 (March 1997). Silver-Age Flash [Barry Allen] tribute.
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The Adventures of the Ultimate Human Being!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBerzerker #2 published March 1993
was Ultiman The Adventures Of The Ultimate Human Being! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Superman tribute. Previous appearance in Big Bang Comics (Image, 1996 series) #4 (September 1995); next appearance later in this issue.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Who is this Champion of Midway City?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Golden-Age Bob Kane Batman tribute. Previous appearance in Big Bang Comics (Image, 1996 series) #4 (September 1996); next appearance in Big Bang Comics (Image, 1996 series) #7 (December 1996).
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Ultiman's Secret Citiadel!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Synopsis: Ultiman takes contest-winner Jimmy on a tour of his secret headquarters.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Silver-Age Superman tribute, and this citadel is very similar to his Fortress of Solitude. Next appearance in Big Bang Comics (Image, 1996 series) #12 (July 1997). Actual title on this story misspells "citadel" as "citidel", but the correct spelling is used in the table of contents in this issue, showing the intention.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Big Bang Theories
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from El Sloano, Joseph F. Carroll, Marshall T. Williams, Jon Gilbert, Henry Kujawa, and Adam Paige.
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The Most Requested Big Bang Story Of All Time Is Here!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for next issue, Big Bang Comics (Image, 1996 series) #6 (which reprints Vol.1 #3).
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Hey Gang

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Knight Watchman
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Action Figures Unlimited (maker of custom Big Bang action figures).
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Greetings, Fans! Your pal

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pin-up of Mighty Man; Golden-Age C.C. Beck Captain Marvel tribute.

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