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Issue: Siegel and Shuster: Dateline 1930s #2
Publication Date: January 1985
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagEclipse
Brand: Eclipse Comics [in circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Eclipse Comics
On Sale Date: 08/04/1985
Volume: 1
Pages: 28
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.25 CAD
$1.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 33 (26 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes (Fantagraphics, 1981 Series) #76.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; color interior (#1); black and white interior (#2)
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; Baxter (#1); newsprint (#2)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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World in Future -- 1980

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Disclose Notes: Cover image is modified from the original sketch printed inside between Snoopy & Smiley strips #15 and 16.
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75¢

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Credits
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Eclipse Comics breaks the Buck Barrier!
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Includes images of the covers of Miracleman (Eclipse, 1985 Series) #1 and The New DNAgents (Eclipse, 1985 Series) #2.
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Forward

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Inker(s): ? (photographs, see note)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Back in 1965, artist Joe Shuster and I collaborated on the comic strip Superman.
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Disclose Notes: Jerry Siegel recounts the origin of the strips in this issue. Photographs are reproduced from the 1934 edition of The Olympiad, the yearbook of Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio, where Siegel and Joe Shuster were students and first met.
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No. 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): an unnamed police officer
First Line: P-S-S-T! Try an' look innocent, Snoopy!
Synopsis: Snoopy's and Smiley's hum-drum life is upended.
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No. 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): an unnamed doctor
First Line: Poor Smiley! Why was it he who had to be in the way of that hit-skip driver? Why couldn't it have been me?
Synopsis: Snoopy visits Smiley in the hospital.
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No. 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): an unnamed nurse
First Line: Y'know, Snoopy... while I was unconsious I had th' strangest dream! I dreamt ya walked smack into a door!
Synopsis: Smiley's dream comes true -- for an unlucky Snoopy.
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No. 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): an unnamed doctor
First Line: What in the world are you doing under the bed?
Synopsis: Snoopy and Smiley have a "crazy" plan.
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No. 5

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): an unnamed doctor
First Line: This is an outrage! How dare you treat my pal like this? -- Why he's no crazier than I am!!
Synopsis: Snoopy's attempt to get Smiley out of the hospital backfires.
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No. 6

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First Line: -- and stay out!
Synopsis: Smiley has a funny idea, but Snoopy isn't laughing.
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No. 7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): an unnamed child; an unnamed waiter
First Line: Y'know, I can't forget my hunch that you an' I are soon gonna become poppas!
Synopsis: Snoopy and Smiley take pity on a hungry child.
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No. 8

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Character(s): an unnamed child
First Line: Ouch!
Synopsis: Snoopy and Smiley fight, and the child sticks up for himself.
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No. 9

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Character(s): an unnamed child
First Line: Please, mister!
Synopsis: To Snoopy's dismay, Smiley lets the kid tag along.
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No. 10

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Character(s): an unnamed child
First Line: What're ya doin'?
Synopsis: Snoopy has an idea, but Smiley misunderstands.
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No. 11

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): an unnamed child; an unnamed police officer
First Line: Would ya believe it? Since my auto accident every time I've been socked on the bean I've seen a vision that later came true
Synopsis: Snoopy smacks Smiley, causing him to have another vision.
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No. 12

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Character(s): an unnamed child; an unnamed police officer
First Line: Insult an officer of th' law, will yuh! Well, how does this strike yuh?
Synopsis: Snoopy and Smiley end up on the wrong side of the law, but the kid saves the day.
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No. 13

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First Line: For two weeks we've slaved like dogs for pennies.
Synopsis: Snoopy tries to "help" Smiley have another vision.
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No. 14

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First Line: Look, Smiley! Look what I've got!
Synopsis: Snoopy has an idea to make money, but Smiley disagrees.
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No. 15

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Character(s): an unnamed sign-painter
First Line: For the first time in all history, a firm offering infallible predictions has been founded!
Synopsis: Smiley follows Snoopy's directions for the sign-painter.
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World in Future -- 1980

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Disclose Notes: Image is dated May 2, 1931, and signed "Joe Shuster 16 yrs."
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No. 16

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): an unnamed man
First Line: Here comes our first customers! Now for heaven's sake don't spoil everything!
Synopsis: Snoopy and Smiley have a customer, but Smiley isn't so happy.
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No. 17

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Some pal he is! Always smackin' me over th' head an' tellin' me it's for my own good!
Synopsis: Smiley plans a little payback on Snoopy.
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No. 18

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Do ya mean to say all I gotta do is concentrate an' I won't feel any pain when ya sock me?
Synopsis: Smiley takes Snoopy's advice -- and regrets it.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Dr. Jamison; Kaye (see note); Leland
First Line: A car stops before the hospital in which the aged scientist Trembath; three men, one of them masked, get out.
Synopsis: The ailing scientist Trembath is visited by an acquaintance named Leland and a mysterious masked figure.
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Disclose Notes: It is presumed the masked character was to be revealed by Siegel and Shuster as the titular Kaye.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Inko! I've an idea that'll knock you out!
Synopsis: Inko's two-dimensional world becomes too dangerous.
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Barton
First Line: Bruce and Lieut. Macy hurry before their superior officer.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Aha! He's up to something!
Synopsis: The Waif tricks a police officer.
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Disclose Notes: Above the Flossie story.
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Phil
First Line: Isn't it beautiful?
Synopsis: Flossie gets a new dress, but she's not the only stunner.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Luke Foster, a romantically inclined citizen of Lone Peak, Montana, tricked by Chick Glenn, press agent of the beautiful Glora Glamour...
Synopsis: Luke Foster journeys toward Hollywood only to run into Gloria Glamour herself.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Horrible Happenings
First Line: Straighten up, son; don't be round-shouldered!
Synopsis: A boy is embarrassed in front of the school nurse.
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Always a Gentleman

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First Line: Ahem!
Synopsis: Cornelius helps a woman on a bus.
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Women and the Comics by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode

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Feature(s): Women and the Comics
First Line: This is the definitive book about women and the comics, written and edited by two leading authorities in the field.
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Disclose Notes: Includes small figure drawings by each of the artists credited.
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Back Issues

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eclipse
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. A list of and order form for back issues from Eclipse.
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The Rocketeer Graphic Album

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: When Dave Stevens' the Rocketeer first appeared in 1982, the comics world stood up and applauded.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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