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Issue: Measles #2

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1999

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Issues: #2 of 8 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: For All Ages

Publisher: Flag

Fantagraphics

Brand: Fantagraphics Books

Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.

On Sale Date: 1999

Volume: none

Pages: 28

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD

Indicia Frequency: For All Ages

Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: 1st printing: March 1999

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Format

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:

Reprinted In9

4 Content Items

reprinted 6 times as/in other Issues.

2 Content Items
- La Blanca- A True Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]2
- The Oedwards File [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Professor Eggrod; Kid Firechief

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Credits on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Character(s): Kid Firechief; Punctuation Duck; Professor Eggrod; Nibblett; Celestra

First Line: You want comics?

Reprinting

In Issue:

The Adventures of Venus #[nn] published May 2012

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Production credits and indicia accompanied by small-size sample images from each artist's story and a larger one from Hernandez.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens

Character(s): Jim Martian; President Lincoln; Mad Dog Crater

First Line: Bzzt click. Yes Sir...

Synopsis: Venus visits an alien-themed amusement park with her aunt Fritz.

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In Issue:

The Adventures of Venus #[nn] published May 2012

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

La Blanca- A True Story

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Character(s): La Blanca

First Line: Back in the Thirties, in the town of Ysleta, Texas stood an old adobe house built along...

Synopsis: The strange story of a ghost haunting an adobe house in Ysleta, Texas.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

The Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as La Blanca [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 published January 2004
as La Blanca [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: “A true story.” “A tip of the hat to Mom Hernandez for a great tale...”

The Oedwards File

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Olaf Oedwards, Kid Firechief

Character(s): Olaf Oedwards; Smokey Joe; Rosie Cheeks; John Oedwards; Meriwether Oedwards; Clem Oedwards; Percival Oedwards; Carl Oedwards; Amy Van Auken

First Line: Ever since he appeared on the scene, everyone's been asking the same question about Olaf...

Synopsis: Just how did a kid get to be firechief? Rosie from the local school paper arrives to do a piece on Olaf's life story.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

The Kid Firechief #[nn] published January 2004
as The Oedwards File [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Punctuation Duck Capricious Canine

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous

Character(s): Punctuation Duck; Capricious Canine

First Line: A duck that speaks in punctuation marks!

Synopsis: A duck that speaks in punctuation marks.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Professor Eggrod

Character(s): Professor Eggrod; Nibblett; Barman; Old Angus

First Line: ...could have saved the planet.

Synopsis: Nibblett is drowning his sorrows at a bar because he believes his scientific discovery has been soft-pedaled.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

The Legend of Celestra- The Maiden of Mud

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Character(s): Celestra

First Line: Once upon a time...

Synopsis: Celestra is sent to destroy a cathedral bell possessed by an evil spirit that is terrorizing the village.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Pages 3 and 2 are transposed.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Baby Kid; Miguel Mendoza

First Line: Glinda's usually pretty nice when me and her hang around together...

Synopsis: Venus contemplates her at times sassy friend Glinda as well as boys like her best friend Yoshio and Miguel, the cutest guy in her class.

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In Issue:

The Adventures of Venus #[nn] published May 2012

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Two Great Series-- Four Great Books

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for Lewis Trondheim's McConey books as well as two Frank trade paperbacks by Woodring.

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

First Line: The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as crazy as bedbugs.

Synopsis: Frank and Pupshaw walking in a flower garden.

Reprinting

In Issue:

The Frank Book #[nn] published June 2003

In Issue:

The Frank Book #[nn] published January 2011

In Issue:

The Frank Book #[nn] published January 2011

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.