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Issue: Weirdo #5
Publication Date: January 1982
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Issues: #5 of 28 Issues (47 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagLast Gasp
Brand: Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
Indicia Publisher: Last Gasp Eco Funnies
On Sale Date: 1982
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: 0867191376
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 21 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Letters page includes comments from Kim Deitch. Cover price rises with this issue.

1st printing: May 1982 (2.50 USD); 2nd printing: July 1982 (2.50 USD)
Both printings were 10,000 copies apiece
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; black and white interiors
Dimensions: 8.25 in. x 10.75 in. (20.9 cm x 27.3 cm)
Paper Stock: glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Goodbye Cruel World
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagR. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 #[nn] published January 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover design resembles early issues of Mad as a Magazine.
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They Need Your Designer Jeans

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Fake fundraising ad
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In Issue: FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] published July 1986
In Issue: FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 #[nn] published February 2012
In Content Item: FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] published September 1986
as They Need Your Designer Jeans [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laugh Makers
Character(s): Bud Abbott; Joe DeRita; Oliver Hardy; Fred Quimby; Doodles Weaver; Jimmy Nelson; Danny O'Day; Farfel
First Line: Bud Abbott made his final stage appearance in 1974 at the old actors home in Los Angeles.
Synopsis: False biographical oddities about comedians in their advanced old age.
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In Issue: FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] published July 1986
In Issue: FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 #[nn] published February 2012
In Content Item: FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] published September 1986
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe New Comics Anthology #[nn] published January 1991
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.29
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Weirdo Number 5

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as Weirdo Letters Page Logos [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]masthead drawing
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.41
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from Dawn Martin (Seattle, WA), Larry Adler (NY, NY), R.F. McAteer, John King (NY, NY), J.H. Szostek (Leeds, UK), Steve Replogle (Grant, CO), Big Red, Kim Deitch, Steven Dover (NY, NY), Ron Evry (Fredericksburg, VA), Ole Askholm (Brandon, Manitoba).
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Somebody Help Me!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Ad for back issues of this magazine. Accompanied by a small ad for Robert Armstrong's Couch Potato Movement newsletter, "The Tuber's Voice."
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Unsung Heroes in the History of Humour

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Approximately twenty-six assorted old cartoons and gags, most of them anonymous.
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Professor Brainard Admonishes His Nephew Maynard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Maynard
Synopsis: Rhyme about the perils of youth
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Space Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Cautionary rhyme about spreading our bad habits elsewhere.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.
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Professor Brainard Encounters Lemurman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lemurman
Synopsis: The Professor meets Lemurman.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.
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The Hucksters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The Professor rails against greed.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.
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A Dissertation On Creation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A rhyming rant against creationists.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.
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Peter Makes the Scene

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Angela
Synopsis: Peter is introduced to other women.
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Pages: 2
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Ricky Dickner's Manic Activity Book

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Ricky Dickner; Crazy Man; Little Meredith Gruber
Synopsis: The fate of wildman Ricky Dickner.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Strip credited only to "Tom -n- Craig."
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She Jumped On Her Pushbike and Pedalled Away!

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The pleasures of cycling
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In Content Item: FlagNeed More Love A Graphic Memoir #[nn] published January 2007
as She Jumped On Her Push-Bike and Pedalled Away! [Photo Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Photostrip adapting an old song lyric
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The Pen Is

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Ad for Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories.
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The Old Songs are the Best Songs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Humourous adaptations of old song lyrics. The songs adapted are: On the Street Where You Live, My Guy, Purple Haze and When You Go a Courtin'.
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In Issue: FlagR. Crumb Draws the Blues #[nn] published January 1993
In Issue: FlagR. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 #[nn] published January 2013
In Content Item: FlagR. Crumb Draws the Blues #[nn] published January 1992
as The Old Songs Are the Best Songs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as The Old Songs are the Best Songs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as On the Street Where You Live [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as My Guy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as Purple Haze [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as When You Go A Courtin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRocky #4/2006 published May 2006
as De gamle sangene er de beste sangene [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagRocky #6/2006 published August 2006
as De gamle sangene er de beste sangene del 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
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Pages: 8
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I Became the Slave of the Wild Girls of Putah Creek

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: An explorer is captured by jungle amazons
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Macedonio #268314

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Synopsis: Life in a Texas prison
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This sequence includes the following stories and illustrations from the then-Texas prisoner: "Contoones;" "Tales from the Inside- "Cultured Criminals;" "Tales from the Inside- Shitter Time;" "The Rebellion"
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Punch-A-Bunch

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Fake ad for a roll-back doll
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Pages: 1
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Weirdo License

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Official Weirdo certificate
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as Weirdo License [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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