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Issue: Measles #1
Publication Date: January 1998
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Issues: #1 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: For All Ages
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: For All Ages
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: November 1998
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Kid Firechief; Lewis Trondheim; Boy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The Lewis Tondheim on the cover is his bird avatar.
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Kid Firechief; Professor Eggrod; Nibblett
First Line: Hi!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of contents with illustrations, production credits and indicia at bottom.
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The New Adventures of Venus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Comic shop Owner
First Line: So, I love comic books!
Synopsis: Venus is bugged repeatedly by a man who says he's looking for his dog.
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In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[10] published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[23] published January 2006
as The New Adventures of Venus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLuba #[nn] published March 2009
as The New Adventures of Venus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLuba #1 published January 2010
as Les Nouvelles Aventures de Venus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Little Frogs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Two unnamed boys; Aloris
First Line: What it is, fellers?
Synopsis: Aloris is grossed out by the boys who are catching frogs to eat.
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Pages: 2
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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Olaf Oedwards, Kid Firechief
Character(s): Olaf Oedwards; Smokey Joe; Professor Spofford; Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; Proboscis
First Line: Even though he's just a young orphaned boy, it's a well known fact...
Synopsis: Olaf travels back in time to ancient Rome while battling a fire in Professor Spofford's apartment.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Kid Firechief #[nn] published January 2004
as Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography, childrens
Character(s): Lewis Trondheim; Grandfather; Misha; Cousins; Grandmother; Farmer
First Line: An Australian friend of my dad's sent me a boomerang.
Synopsis: Childhood holidays remembered as the artist recalls a Summer spent in the Auvergne region of France when he was thirteen years old.
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Pages: 3
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Space On the Loose!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Boy; Boy's mother
First Line: Mama kept the secret toy up in her closet, under her dolls and the cat in the plastic box...
Synopsis: A boy goes out around the neighborhood in his space suit with his ray-gun.
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Pages: 5
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Two Great Series-- Four Great Books

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for the publisher's McConey vol. 1 & 2 by Lewis Trondheim and Frank vol. 1 & 2 by Jim Woodring.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Profesor Eggrod
Character(s): Professor Eggrod; Nibblett
First Line: In the observatory above his modest home, Professor Eggrod has turned his attention to...
Synopsis: Has Niblett discovered a new planet?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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