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Issue: American Splendor #15
Publication Date: January 1990
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Issues: #15 of 16 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHarvey Pekar
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Pekar
On Sale Date: 06/04/1990
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 20 (19 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harvey Pekar
Disclose Notes: On-sale date (shipping) from the Public Catalog of the U.S. Copyright Office, (typo on issue #) Registration Number TX0002849699.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: In the 90s I'm gonna be harder on everybody... the vast inert masses ain't buying my comics...
Synopsis: Harvey steps up to the plate.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Bob Wachsman Tummler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Bob Wachsman
First Line: I was in bed with my wife.
Synopsis: Bob tells how he's nagged by his wife to close the window.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Artist Alan Moore is better known for his writing.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner and Lunch and Breakfast

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Zigmund Dobrowolski; Herschel Schnorrer
First Line: Is this meant to foster Polish-Jewish solidarity?
Synopsis: Herschel knows he's onto a good thing as he hides from the Nazis at Zigmund's house but winds up staying for decades.
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In Content Item: FlagJewish Comix Anthology #[1] published July 2014
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The story is drawn in the style of Art Spiegelman's Maus.
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A Tribute to Bill Marks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, autobiography, biography, humorous
First Line: Chester, I don't have Bill Marks' new address, but when you talk to 'im...
Synopsis: Harvey talks with Chester Brown on the phone about the reputation of publisher Bill Marks.
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Pages: 1
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Squirrel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: I'm feeling much better now.
Synopsis: Harvey and Joyce come across a squirrel that may have been severely wounded by a car.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: "Special thanks on art to Elisa Darnell"
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Twilight Zone

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Sue; Customer
First Line: Thanks for holdin' 'at stuff f'r me, Sue.
Synopsis: Harvey and another guy chat after exiting a second hand book store.
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Pages: 1
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Weekend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Joe; Ada; Book Dealer; Policeman
First Line: Friday- going home from work...
Synopsis: And the weekend was going so well. An aggressive motorcycle driver threatens Harvey. The following day, he goes with Joe to a book dealer. Later on, a cop pulls him over for speeding.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The story is told with the panels going across two pages.
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The Greenhouse Effect

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Man in Short Sleeve Shirt; Man with Mustache
First Line: Somewhere in Manhattan.
Synopsis: Harvey's friend grows dope in his Manhattan apartment.
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Pages: 1
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Short Changed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Greengrocer
First Line: An', uh, gimme three pounds 'a them flame grapes.
Synopsis: Harvey is almost over-charged by a produce seller.
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Disjunctions

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: We are turned round and round in this world... and fate is the handspike.
Synopsis: The contrast between Harvey's relatively trivial concerns and a letter he received from a troubled art student.
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Pages: 6
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Explosion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Spain; Vito; Super; Super's wife; Vito's wife
First Line: My friend Vito useta live with his wife in this apartment building.
Synopsis: A man recounts his friend Vito's habit of sleeping with the apartment superintendent's wife while he was away.
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Pages: 1
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Wounded In Action

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
First Line: Ow!
Synopsis: Toby hurts his hand.
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Pages: 1
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A Lull at the Convention

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Frank Mangiaracina
First Line: Our man during a comic convention
Synopsis: Harvey, at the 1989 Chicago comic con, chats with a comic dealer taken to court by the city on charges of selling obscene material.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The case referenced is the one against the Friendly Frank's store outside of Chicago.
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Intermission (Recollections of a Veteran Thespian)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: I'm gonna take a wiz.
Synopsis: A restroom urinal encounter.
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Pages: 1
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Toby Saves the Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Female Co-Worker #1; Female Co-Worker #2; Man with Glasses; Eddy
First Line: The elevator up to the floor where I work operates with a key.
Synopsis: Harvey's keys get stuck in the elevator lock.
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Pages: 3
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Festering

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Jack; Whitey; Al Cohen; Mr. Pekar; Mrs. Pekar
First Line: This is a kind of two-family home, called a "double house"...
Synopsis: A story from Harvey's college days. Harvey quits college because of his increased anxiety about trying to succeed. After breaking a chair due to his mounting frustration, his father orders him out of the house and pulls a knife on him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Herschel is Harvey Pekar. The story reads across two pages rather than one.
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Sour Grapes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): John Zubal
First Line: O.k.
Synopsis: Harvey is annoyed about hearing of a bargain picked up by another book collector.
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Pages: 2
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Somewhere In Pennsylvania

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
First Line: An early Elliot Paul I never saw b'fore!
Synopsis: Harvey, in Pennsylvania, joins in a bookstore conversation about Russian writers.
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Reprint Notes: from Northwest Extra! #10 ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The art is printed landscape rather than portrait.
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Short Story - Long Money

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Devese
Synopsis: Harvey thinks he lost a $2100 cheque.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The art is printed landscape rather than portrait.
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War Baby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Synopsis: Harvey, waiting in line at the bank, meets someone who recognises him from Late Night With David Letterman.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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