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Issue: Vanguard Illustrated #1
Publication Date: November 1983
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPacific Comics
Brand: PCView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Pacific Comics
On Sale Date: 09/20/1983
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $1.25 CAD
$1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #32.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Baxter interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
fantasy, science fiction
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Libretto

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
10
Thomas Yeates described how he and Rick Bryant worked on this story: Yeates laid out the story and roughed in figures. Bryant drew technical backgrounds and panels. Each artist inked his own work. An example of a panel fully penciled and inked by Rick Bryant is page 3, panel 2 (2023).
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Reference:

Yeates, Thomas. 2023. Interview by indexer David B.  Norman, Okla. Sept. 17.
Encyclopedias [Part One]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Continues next issue. Part 1 (of 4).
Freakwave! Part One A Stanger in Paradise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Freakwave
Mickey Death (Mickey Mouse parody, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
10
Continues next issue.
Part 1 (of 3).

First work in U.S. by British creators Milligan and McCarthy. The inside-cover editorial explains that McCarthy was met at a convention, and commissioned to do this story before deadline for VANGUARD 1, so not a reprint.

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