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Issue: Eightball #3
Publication Date: June 1990
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Issues: #3 of 23 Issues (46 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1990
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $2.50 CAD
$2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Mature Readers
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover is split equally between three features. Letters page has comments from Jim Woodring. 1st printing: March 1990
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers, Mostly Black and White Interiors with some Color- (#1-21); Color (#22 & 23)
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US (#1-18); 7.56" x 10.25" (19.2 cm x 26 cm) (#19-22); irregular sized (#23)
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In11
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The Return of Young Dan Pussey

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Stroll; Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron; Dan Pussey
Character(s): Dan Pussey; Sammy Loving; Toupée Guy
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Pastor Robert Tilton

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): The Eightball Profile
Character(s): Robert Tilton
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text and illustration feature about a sleazy TV evangelist
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Part Three

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Character(s): Clay Loudermilk; Tina Muskegon; Kitty Muskegon
Synopsis: Clay stays with the part-fish Tina and her mother
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLike a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #[nn] [unnamed variant] published May 1993
In Issue: FlagLike a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #[nn] published May 1993
In Issue: FlagWie ein samtener Handschuh in eisernen Fesseln #[nn] published January 1994
In Content Item: FlagLike a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #[nn] published December 1998
as Mister? (Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, part three) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Stroll

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Toupée Guy; Lisa
Synopsis: A person walks home and relfects on the people and incidents they observe
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist #[nn] published April 2012
In Content Item: FlagLout Rampage #[nn] [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as The Stroll [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as The Stroll [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Young Manhood Of Dan Pussey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Dan Pussey
Character(s): Dan Pussey; Doctor Infinity; Ms. Phalier; Gummo Bubbleman; Larry Anger
Synopsis: Dan Pussey tries to broaden his work
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagPussey! #[nn] [unnamed variant] published July 2006
In Content Item: FlagPussey! #[nn] [unnamed variant] published July 1995
as The Young Manhood of Dan Pussey [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Alternately titled 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pussey'. Gummo Bubbleman is a caricature of Art Spiegelman, and Larry Anger is a caricature of Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth.
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Postal Intercourse

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Letters section and a "plug corner" promoting the album "Split" by Victor Banana
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
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Prank Phone Call Contest Final Results

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Announcing the winner of the contest; small promo for other Clowes books.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
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What Can Robots Do?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Various
Subject Matter
Genres: activity
Feature(s): Duplex Planet
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagNo More Shaves #[nn] published January 2003
In Content Item: FlagLout Rampage #[nn] [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as What Can Robots Do? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from Duplex Planet (David Greenberger, 1979 series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Adapts answers given by people in an old folks home and originally published in Duplex Planet. This is the back cover

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