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Issue: Taboo #2
Publication Date: January 1989
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Issues: #2 of 7 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagSpiderbaby Grafix & Publications
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Indicia Publisher: SpiderBaby Grafix and Publishing
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 148
ISBN: 0922003017
UPC/EAN:
Price: $9.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 46 (17 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Cover; Black & White Interior
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Paper Stock: Cardstock Cover
Binding: softcover; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Untitled Blasphemy

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Genres: horror
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The Droolies (study for an unrealised children's book project)

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Genres: horror
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Table of Contents

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Indicia and Acknowledgments

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"The Pyjama Girl's Big Night Out" Introduction

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First Line: One of the oldest themes of the horror yarn, and that most associated with horror comics, is the "back-from-the-dead" revenge story.
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The Pyjama Girl's Big Night Out

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Pyjama Girl
First Line: The pyjama girl was hauled out of the liquid.
Synopsis: An unsolved Australian murder from the 1930s.
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In Content Item: FlagLittle Italy #1 published July 1991
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"Encore" Introduction

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First Line: In contrast to the story you've just read, "Encore" presents a more traditional approach to the archetypal walking-dead tale.
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Encore

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Genres: horror
First Line: I was only a bookkeeper.
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"Mad Eyes" Introduction

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First Line: The effects of the 'British Invasion' are still being felt on the American and international comics scenes.
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Mad Eyes

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First Line: Tonight, after a life in the darkness, I was given my eyes
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"Sweet Nothings" Introduction

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First Line: One of the premises of Taboo is that there are no defined boundaries to the horror genre (or its realization through comic art).
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Sweet Nothings

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Genres: horror
First Line: She began to wonder if this was normal.
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"Wet" Introduction

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First Line: While working on the ambitious second chapter of "Throat Sprockets", artist Mike Hoffman made time to...
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Wet

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Walter; Meg
First Line: Meg hadn't wanted to move into the duplex, but, Walter won out with his usual resolve...
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"Hell's Toupeé" and "Sick Animal" Introduction

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First Line: Once, delivering groceries to a nursing home, I stumbled into a mealtime scene that made me quite uncomfortable.
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Sick Animal

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Genres: horror
First Line: He plastered his eyebrows with purple Maybelline probably.
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Hell's Toupeé

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Genres: horror
First Line: He couldn't take anymore of her endless harangue.
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Numbleschitz

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Genres: horror
First Line: Hey fuckley
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Elly

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"Check-out Time" Introduction

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First Line: "Check-out Time" author and artist Tom Marnick (a.k.a. Julie Bortzoil) claims that his story is based on a true experience . . .
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Check-out Time

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Genres: horror
First Line: The Blue Royal Motor Inn... the friendly place to stay...
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"Saying Grace" Introduction

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First Line: During the winter of 1981-82, I had a series of nightmares that grew out of a period of change and turmoil in Nancy's and my life together.
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Saying Grace

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Cardinal Syn
First Line: Spit once.
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Disclose Notes: Features the character Cardinal Syn, who appeared to Bissette in a dream. Character also appeared in the cover painting to Taboo #1.
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"Sharks" Introduction

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First Line: Mark Askwith and Rick Taylor are soft-spoken, affable fellows living in Ontario, Canada...
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Sharks

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Genres: horror
First Line: In the beginning there was chaos.
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"Life With the Vampire" Introduction

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First Line: For some storytellers, their fictional characters have autonomous lives, apparently immune to the whims and schemes of their creators.
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Life With the Vampire Chapter One: Oh God, It Feels Like Dying

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Maggie McDonnell; Barney; Ivan
First Line: The Vampire doesn't care much for that title.
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Life With the Vampire Chapter Two: The Human Crux

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Maggie McDonnell; Barney; Ivan
First Line: However. Later that night, Barney flops over on Ivan, wakes up and flees.
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Tom Veitch on S. Clay Wilson (1973)

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First Line: The point is – ya got this piece of blank paper before you.
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Rebel Reject Robots Dally with the Bastard Daughters of Corrupt Technocrats

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Rotting Zombie Harpies Dispatch a Vampire

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Genres: adult
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In Issue: FlagThe Art of S. Clay Wilson #[nn] published January 2006
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The Checkered Demon and a Vampire Messmate Race to the Bottom

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Genres: adult
Character(s): Checkered Demon; Vampire Messmate
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From Content Item: FlagCocaine Comix #3 published January 1981
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The Merry Makers Parade by... Oblivious to the Odious Acts in the Alley.

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Genres: adult
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Tom Veitch on S. Clay Wilson (1973)

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First Line: Like you, gentle reader, I am repulsed and sickened by the art of S. Clay Wilson.
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Oh, Baby! Our love is Taboo

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Genres: horror
First Line: Oh baby! Our love is taboo.
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"Mercy" Introduction

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First Line: Roman Catholicism is organized around inherited guilt and rituals of blood...
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Mercy

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Genres: horror
First Line: go ahead jimmy it's your turn now...
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"Hate Mail" Introduction

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First Line: The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself.
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Hate Mail

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Genres: horror
First Line: The doorbell rings. It's not my usual postman who delivers the package.
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"From Hell" Introduction

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First Line: From Hell.
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Salutation to Ganesa

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First Line: This book is dedicated to...
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From Hell Prologue: The Old Men on the Shore

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): From Hell
Character(s): Robert Lees; Fred Abberline
First Line: Bournemouth, September 1923
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In Content Item: FlagFrom Hell #1 [First Printing] published March 1991
as Prologue: The Old Men on the Shore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHelvetistä #1 published September 1994
as Prologi: Vanhat miehet rannalla [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrom Hell #[nn] [First Printing] published November 1999
as Prologue: The Old Men on the Shore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrom Hell #1 published March 2000
as Prólogo: Los ancianos en la costa [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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From Hell Chapter One: The Affections of Young Mr. S

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): From Hell
Character(s): Annie Crook; Prince Eddie; Walter Sickert; John Netley; Alice Crook; Marie Kelly
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In Content Item: FlagFrom Hell #1 [First Printing] published March 1991
as Chapter One The Affections of Young Mr. S [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHelvetistä #1 published September 1994
as Luku 1 Nuoren herra S:n tunteet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrom Hell #[nn] [First Printing] published November 1999
as Chapter One: The Affections of Young Mr. S [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrom Hell #1 published March 2000
as Capítulo primero: Las inclinaciones del joven Sr. S [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Gut Reaction

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Major Arcana: The Lovers and the Star (Eddie -- Annie -- The London Pentacle)

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Feature(s): From Hell
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Home is Where the Heart is

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Genres: horror
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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