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Issue: Eightball #5
Publication Date: February 1991
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Issues: #5 of 23 Issues (46 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: For Mature Readers Only
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 24
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $2.95 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: For Mature Readers Only
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Letters page has comments from Mary Fleener, Jay Lynch and Don Simpson. Partial interior colour from this issue. The cover pricing varies depending on the print run. 1st printing: ?; 2nd printing: ?
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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:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In12
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Character(s): Gregg; Obesity Hopkins; Willie Willions; Insignificant Shrimp; Little Octagon; Pothead
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Why Do People Spit?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Various
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Duplex Planet
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLout Rampage #[nn] [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Why Do People Spit? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from Duplex Planet (David Greenberger, 1979 series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Adapts answers given by people in an old folks home and originally published in Duplex Planet.
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Part Five

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Character(s): Clay Loudermilk; Beatrice
Synopsis: Clay ends up in a strange hotel
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 Shit Happens When You Party Naked (Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, part five) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: First page is in colour
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Just Another Day...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Daniel G. Clowes
Character(s): Daniel Clowes; Steve
Synopsis: Clowes directs his cast
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations #[nn] published July 2013
In Content Item: FlagLout Rampage #[nn] [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Just Another Day [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as Just Another Day… [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Playful Obsession

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Willie Willions; Insignificant Shrimp
Character(s): Willie Willions; Insignificant Shrimp; Gregg; Little Octagon; Obesity Hopkins; Sweet Sal; Pothead
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLout Rampage #[nn] [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Playful Obsession [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as Playful Obsession [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Strip is a pastiche of Richie Rich, Caspar and other Harvey characters, and is in colour
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Paranoid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): God; God's Friend; You; Perry Gnoid
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLout Rampage #[nn] [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Paranoid [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as Paranoid [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is also the back cover

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