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Issue: The Big Book of Losers #[nn]
Publication Date: March 1997
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Factoid Books; [Paradox Press]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Paradox Press
On Sale Date: 01/29/1997
Volume: none
Pages: 196
ISBN: 1563892537
UPC/EAN: 76194120720900111
Price: $20.95 CAD
$14.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 85 (72 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Letterers for interior sequences are listed as a group on page below indicia: Bob Lappan, Michael DeLepine, Roxanne Starr, and Hugh Monhan.

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 Losers

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Everyday Losers

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Adam

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Can't Win for Losing

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Sore Losers

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time!

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Losers Weepers

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Get a Life

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Sore Sports Losers

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The Golden Hill

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Yousouf Ishmaelo

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Pavel Navrotsky's Pig Pen

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Old Losers Never Die

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Loss Leaders

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Presidential Also-Rans

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Harold Stassen

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William Henry Harrison

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James Garfield: Martyr to Medicine

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Thomas Paine

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The Hunt Brothers

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Leon Trotsky

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Rudolf Hess: Uberloser

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Yukio Mishima

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Lunchtime for Victor Biaka-Bod

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Croesus

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Montezuma

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Losing Propositions

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The Edsel

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The Picturephone

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New Coke

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The Paper Dress

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Cars of Future Past

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Women's Urinals

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Movie Gimmicks Time Forgot

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Smokeless Smokes

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Susan B. Anthony's Dollar

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Fallout Shelters

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The Loser Sound

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Meet: Milli Vanilli

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Spade Cooley: King of Western Swing

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Frankie Lymon

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The Cherry Sisters

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From Moondog to Scapegoat

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Carrie: The Musical

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Joe Meek's Musical Rocket Science

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Not a Moment to Lose

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The Crash of '29

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George Armstrong Custer

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Dead Letters: The First Airmail Flight

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The Dalton Gang's Last Raid

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The FBI Raid on Little Bohemia

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Technocracy: Better Living Through Technology

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The Maginot Line

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Watergate

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Nicholas Leeson Loses His Barings

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The Science of Losing

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Patently Ridiculous

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Edwin Armstrong: Father of FM Radio

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Edison's Cement Housing

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Nicholas Cugnot

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Dr. James Graham

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Mark Twain: Investor

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Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose

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Elisha Gray: The Real Inventor of the Telephone!

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Doomed Adventurers

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Ulrich Von Lichtenstein: What a Knight!

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Fletcher Christian and the Bounty Mutineers

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Thomas Nuttall: Lost Explorer

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Captain Fonck

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Clem Sohn

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Tom Gurr, Salvage King

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Richard Haselton

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Sors Hariezon

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Daniel K. Ludwig

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Bob Ford

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The Gatti Gang: Italy's Least Wanted

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Francis Gary Powers

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Anna Edson Taylor

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Captain Kidd

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Copyright Information

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Biographies

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Bibliography

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