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Issue: Fog City Comics #1
Publication Date: September 1977
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Not for Sale To Children
Publisher: FlagStampart
Brand: StampartView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Stampart
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Terry Hamilton
Disclose Notes: This is the first issue of an anthology series and is marked on the cover as "Funny Animals from Cover to Cover!"
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7 inches x 10 inches
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Rand Holmes
Rand Holmes
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Rand Holmes
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Slap and Dash pull off a daring vanilla extract heist from Grunt Bros. Trucking.
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Miscellaneous
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The characters "Slap" and "Dash" appear in the first story of this issue.
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Terry Hamilton
Terry Hamilton
Sean Newton
typeset
Subject Matter
Special Offer!
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover editorial comments (by Terry Hamilton, editor) with illustration (by Terry Hamilton and Sean Newton), contents and credits listing, and indicia information (September 1977) at bottom of page. There is also an offer for buying signed and numbered copies of this issue.
Magic Spelled Backwards is Almost Cigar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Brent Boates; Laurence Gough (original idea)
Brent Boates
Brent Boates
Brent Boates
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, crime, humorous
Slap and Dash
Slap; Dash
Wuh?
Slap and Dash, two down-on-their-luck dogs, wish they could afford to buy some cigars. Instead, they acquire some booze, get harassed by other animals, witness a gangland rub-out, and end up at a vaudeville magic show.
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Miscellaneous
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Kool's No Fool!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Norm Drew Productions
Norm Drew Productions
Norm Drew Productions
Norm Drew Productions
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Kool Krow
Kool Krow
Gasp! I cant believe it... a... a... whole crust o' bread!
Kool Krow leaves his hand-to-mouth existence for The Big Town where his musical talent takes him far, until the fickle industry discards him.
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Miscellaneous
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There is a thought bubble that hints to name of this story as "Kool Krow in 'Kool's No Fool!'" but it is not clear who is thinking it.
An(im)al Antics

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Rand Holmes
Rand Holmes
Rand Holmes
Rand Holmes
Subject Matter
adult, anthropomorphic, humorous
Nip an Tuck
Nip; Tuck
Nothing but junk food!
Nip and Tuck, a pair of streetwise mice, are on the lookout for drugs and alcohol in a human apartment building.
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FlagL'Écho des savanes #49 published February 1979
FlagThe Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective #[nn] published January 2010
 
Miscellaneous
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The credits page lists this story simply as "Animal Antics", but the splash page draws it as "Nip an Tuk Those Cute Little Fuzzy Mices In... An(im)al Antics" where "im" is awkwardly inserted into "anal."
There is a "cold opening" before the title/splash page where Nip is chased by an alley cat.
Black Ear the Dog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Marv Newland
Marv Newland
Marv Newland
Marv Newland
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Black Ear the Dog
Black Ear the Dog
Say, this town seems nice enuff.
Black Ear the Dog drives around in his jalopy and has run-ins with a waitress and with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer.
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Miscellaneous
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The credits page lists this story simply as "Black Ear the Dog", while the splash page draws "Marv Newland Presents Black Ear the Dog."
Comic Book Addict

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Metzger
George Metzger
George Metzger
George Metzger
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, crime, humorous
Down these mean streets a duck must go...
Recollections of a duck character when he was young and into comic books, so much so that he dreamed of meeting his hero, Super Atomic Mouse!
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Miscellaneous
8
There is a "cold opening" of the protagonist wandering the mean streets of the big city until he reaches his destination: a second-hand book store; then we see the title page of the story.
Boot Hill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Terry Hamilton; Sean Newton
Terry Hamilton; Sean Newton
Terry Hamilton; Sean Newton
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, western
Boston Bear
Boston Bear
Rowdy Riptooter sits at the bar...
Bill Barnes (a Wild West ant) and Rowdy Riptooter (another ant) have a gunfight at Boston Bear's bar.
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Miscellaneous
1
Sequence on inside of back cover; nine panels on one page in black and white, glossy paper. Credits page lists this story simply as "Boot Hill" while it is drawn as "Boston Bear in 'Boot Hill'" at the top of the story. The narration is in a rhyming scheme. The end panel is ironic.
Cranston Ant

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Cranston Ant
Cranston Ant
Cranston Ant, dressed in a classic hard-boiled detective private eye trench coat, dodges a bullet in a dark alley.
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Miscellaneous
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Image on back cover. Promotional art for character who was to appear in the next issue, but did not appear in either issue #2 or #3. There is a hidden message in the street sign: "For Deborah, Happy Birthday."

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