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Issue: American Splendor #13
Publication Date: January 1988
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Issues: #13 of 16 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHarvey Pekar
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Indicia Publisher: Harvey Pekar
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (14 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Dr. Gesundheit; Rollins (?)
First Line: Tsk- tsk - tsk. Think th' country'll last another ten years?
Synopsis: A gloomy prognosis.
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Pages: 1
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Florida

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Louie
First Line: Louie, you see Greenberg?
Synopsis: Louie loses the thread.
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Pages: 1
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Sveet Like 'Oney

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Frank
First Line: Ahh, what is so fair as a day in July?
Synopsis: Harvey goes to the market and discusses Ollie North with Frank.
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Pages: 4
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My Struggle With Corporate Corruption and Network Philistinism

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Adeline
First Line: Here's our man in the sumptuous hotel room NBC's provided prior to his fourth appearance on the David Letterman Show.
Synopsis: Harvey has been invited back on the David Letterman show and is determined to turn the discussion to political matters.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Adapted from Pekar's fourth appearance on Late Nite with David Letterman, the July 31, 1987 episode. As with the previous issue's Letterman appearance, actual dialogue was used from the show in edited form.
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The Answering Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
First Line: Hello, you've reached the home of Harvey Pekar and his lovely and talented wife Joyce Brabner.
Synopsis: Assorted messages left on Harvey's answering machine.
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Pages: 1
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Inky: The Not So Cool Cat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Inky; Dealer; Charlie Parker
First Line: When I got married the last time, in 1983, my wife had a cat named Inky.
Synopsis: How Harvey's cat Inky led Harvey to finally get rid of his massive record collection.
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Pages: 3
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Alterations

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Freddy (?); Cleaner receptionist; Suit salesman
First Line: I gotta pick up some clothes on West Sixth man, izzat ok?
Synopsis: The trials of clothes shopping as Harvey's musician friend keeps getting the runaround from a receptionist at a men's clothing store.
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Pages: 8
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In A Flush of Excitement I Wrote This

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Gibby Wilkins
First Line: Sunday, 8:00 A.M.
Synopsis: Harvey is visited by a fan who's hitching across the USA to Alaska.
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Pages: 6
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President's Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Billy; I. J. Singer; I. B. Singer; Rabbi Melech; Malkah; Nahum; The Beadle; Zivyah
First Line: Oh, I better tell ya- I'm gonna work President's Day.
Synopsis: Mentioning he wants to work on President's Day leads Harvey into literary criticism. The day itself is extremely cold as he makes it to work, the light work load offered by the holiday allowing him to read part of I. J. Singer's book Yoshe Kalb.
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Pages: 10
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A Man for the Job

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Elmo; Colleague
Synopsis: Elmo is fixing a socket.
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Pages: 1
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I Don't Wanna Seem Judg-Mental, But...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Harvey's Musician Friend
First Line: O.K. look, why don't I meet ya t'morra' morning at that lake on Norh Park and Coventry...
Synopsis: Harvey meets a musician friend and goes for a lakefront walk with him, talking about jazz.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The story is drawn in gray wash rather than traditional pencil and ink.
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Public Benefactor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: Morning rush hour- on the way to work
Synopsis: Harvey retrieves a lump of rubber from the road that cars were swerving from.
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Pages: 2
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Guilt!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Pekar's friend
First Line: I'm out of town, staying with a friend.
Synopsis: Harvey has to be reminded that it's bad form to enter a corner shop with a supermarket bag.
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Pages: 2
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Say No to Drugs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: Toby Radloff, as a result of his appearances in American Splendor, has been featured on MTV.
Synopsis: Toby's White Castle preference.
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Pages: 1
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New York Street Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: Stop that guy!
Synopsis: Harvey witnesses bystanders stopping a thief in New York City.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, non-fiction
Character(s): Nurse
First Line: I saw that article on ya in the Plain Dealer, Toby.
Synopsis: Toby is congratulated by a nurse.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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