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Issue: Childhood Is Hell #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1988
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPantheon
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Pantheon Books
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN: 0679720553
UPC/EAN: 978067972055350695
Price: $6.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The fourth book collection of Life in Hell comic strips and cartoons. There have been at least three printings. Indexed using third printing.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 10 in. x 10 in.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; bond interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Childhood is Hell

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Bongo
Synopsis: Cover image shows Bongo sitting in the corner of a room.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The image of Bongo is repeated on the title page in a different setting and the illustrations taken together can be interpreted as forming a two-panel pantomime sequence.
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[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Childhood is Hell

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bongo
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The image of Bongo is repeated from the cover but the background is changed from the corner of a room to the outdoors.
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: Also by Matt Groening
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The colophon page includes a list of other books in the series. A second list of non-existent books with joke titles follows the list of actual books.
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Childhood is Hell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Bongo; Binky; Sheba
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Life in Hell weekly (Acme Features Syndicate) 1988 [dates other than year unspecified]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: Comic strips are numbered sequentially parts one through twenty-five.
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Life in Hell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Bongo; Binky; Akbar; Jeff; Bart Simpson; Sheba
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Life in Hell weekly (Acme Features Syndicate) 1983-1984, 1986-1988 [dates other than year unspecified]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 21
Disclose Notes: Cartoons and comic strips are not presented chronologically.
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[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
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Is Childhood Hell?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Binky; Bongo; Sheba; Akbar; Jeff
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover includes blurbs, reproduction of cover, character illustrations, ISBN, UPC, and price.

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