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Issue: Eightball #8
Publication Date: May 1992
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Issues: #8 of 23 Issues (46 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: For Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1992
Volume: none
Pages: 32
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $3.50 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: For Mature Readers
Content Items: 14 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: March 1992
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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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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
First Line: Hello! I have chosen you at random to obsessively pester and annoy for the rest of your life...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Attention Collector! Back Issues

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eightball
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover ad for back issues of Eightball (1 through 8); 4-issue subscription for Eightball; the Lloyd Llewellyn Collection and Lout Rampage.
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Part Eight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron
Character(s): Clay Loudermilk; Billings; Geat; Haskell; Dr Wilde; Barbara Allen
Synopsis: Clay views another strange film
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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 Screeech (Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, part eight) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Black and white except for the splash panel which is in color.
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The Raging Main

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eightball
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Everett Gilmore, Charles Krafft, Don Simpson, Link Yaco, Steve Lerner and "name withheld".
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Plugsville

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Doofus; Henry Hotchkiss
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Various promos from Daniel Clowes.
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Ugly Girls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Charlie
Synopsis: Observations about beautiful and plain women
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In Issue: FlagOrgy Bound #[nn] published March 1996
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: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as Ugly Girls [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Ye Olde Gift Shoppe

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Mail order ad from Fantagraphics for back issues, T-shirts, mug, rubber stamp and pin.
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Grist for the Mill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Daniel Clowes; Bill
Synopsis: The desperate hunt for material
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In Issue: FlagOrgy Bound #[nn] published March 1996
In Content Item: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as Grist for the Mill [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Komic Kollector's Korner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Dan Pussey
Character(s): Dan Pussey
Synopsis: Dan Pussey explains comics economics
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In Issue: FlagPussey! #[nn] [unnamed variant] published July 2006
In Content Item: FlagPussey! #[nn] [unnamed variant] published July 1995
as Komic Kollector's Korner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Nature Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A wander through a strange wood
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagOrgy Bound #[nn] published March 1996
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Give It Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: What's the point of it all?
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In Issue: FlagOrgy Bound #[nn] published March 1996
In Content Item: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as Give it Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Attention, Art Lovers!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad from Fantagraphics for limited edition silkscreen prints.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: activity
Feature(s): Duplex Planet
Character(s): John
First Line: John, how are you doing?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Adapts answers given by people in an old folks home and originally published in Duplex Planet #27.
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My Suicide...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Self-pity and suicide
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagOrgy Bound #[nn] published March 1996
In Content Item: FlagTwentieth Century Eightball #[nn] published January 2002
as My Suicide… [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Story concludes on the back cover.

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