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Issue: The Big Book of Freaks #[nn]
Publication Date: April 1996
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Factoid Books; [Paradox Press]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Paradox Press
On Sale Date: 02/22/1996
Volume: none
Pages: 228
ISBN: 1563892189
UPC/EAN: 76194120556400111
Price: $20.95 CAD
$14.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 65 (48 stories, 1 cover)
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One of the seventeen Paradox Press series of Big Books:
1994 - The Big Book of Urban Legends
1995 - The Big Book of Death; The Big Book of Weirdos; The Big Book of Conspiracies;
1996 - The Big Book of Freaks; The Big Book of Little Criminals; The Big Book of Hoaxes; The Big Book of Thugs
1997 - The Big Book of Losers; The Big Book of The Unexplained; The Big Book of Martyrs; The Big Book of Scandal
1998 - The Big Book of Bad; The Big Book of the Weird Wild West
1999 - The Big Book of Vice; The Big Book of Grimm
2000 - The Big Book of the '70s
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 8 1/2 inches by 10 7/8 inches
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; matte interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: one-shot
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The Big Book of Freaks

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Legendary Freaks

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Strange Power

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Whole Races of Freaks

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Goliath

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Maximus: Emperor of Rome

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The Monster of Ravenna

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Bartholomew Fair

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Gargoyles

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Medical Freaks

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Chang and Eng

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The Elephant Man

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Carl Herman Unthan: Born Armless and Stubborn

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One-and-a-Halfs

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Freaks Made to Order

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P. T. Barnum's Freaks

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Lavinia, Beloved of Tom

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Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy

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Giant Hearts

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P. T. Barnum's Jumbo

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The Golden Age of Freaks

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The Ten-in-One

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How to Run a Flea Circus

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The Living Skeleton

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Snake Charmers

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Geeks

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The Most Embarrassing Freak I Ever Saw

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A Bounty of Bearded Beauties

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Madame Clofullia

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Annie Jones

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Catherine Delait

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Lady Olga

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The Ugliest Woman in the World

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Omi the Great

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Lives of the Freaks

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Baby Ruth

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Zip

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Joined Jazz Babies

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Mortado

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Doomed to Loom

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The Lobster Boy Murder Caper

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Grifts

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The Cardiff Giant

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Makin' 'Em Bigger 'n' Smaller

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Packaged Primitives

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Building Beggars

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The Art of Gaffing Freaks

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Pickled Punks

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Carny Cons

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Still Going Strong

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Past, Present, and Future Freaks

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Tod Browning's Freaks

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Freaks R Us

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Space Freaks

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Bibliography

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Biographies

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