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Issue: Prime Cuts #1
Publication Date: March 1987
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Issues: #1 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.25 CAD
$3.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 29 (21 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: November 1986 ?. The print date year is missing in the indicia but the month is included.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black & white with colour covers
Dimensions: US magazine size - 10.75" x 8.25" (27.3 cm x 20.95 cm)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dot; Dash
Synopsis: Dot and Dash go surfing
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Reprint Notes: from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.07.24)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.34
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Polly; Pa; Uncle
First Line: Hey Polly! Sharks!!
Synopsis: Pa is worried about sharks near the beach
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Reprint Notes: from Polly and her Pals Sunday (1927.7.24)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.66
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Prime Cuts Words & Pictures

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Table of contents plus a quote from Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Pages: 1
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Continued several pages later
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The Outsider

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An adaptation of the famous short story about a solitary man weary of darkness who is inexorably drawn to a castle tower.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Production and indicia credits. Subscription offer for Prime Cuts with the following month's issue shown.
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Pages: 1
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Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Feature(s): Aline 'n' Bob
Character(s): Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Synopsis: The problems with having an old refrigerator as a style item
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Dirty Laundry Comics #[nn] [unnamed variant] published June 1993
as Troubles With Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #16 published July 2002
as Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNeed More Love A Graphic Memoir #[nn] published January 2007
as Aline 'n' Bob in Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDrawn Together #[nn] published October 2012
as Aline 'n' Bob in Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Blues

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Eddie Campbell; Georgette Maison; Dave Harwood
Synopsis: Love's obsession
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Originally released in the UK as a self-published comic
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Overheard at America's Lunch Counters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Overheard at America's Lunch Counters
Synopsis: Eleven quotations heard by the author while waitressing
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Portrait

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Accompanies a text story by R. A. Lafferty.
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Mr. Hamadryad

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Reality. Fantasy. and Everything in Between

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Luba
Synopsis: Ad for Love & Rockets
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dot; Dash
Synopsis: Dot and Dash chase a bird
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Reprint Notes: from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.06.19)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.34
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Ashur Perkins; Pa
Synopsis: Ashur invents flourescent slippers
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Reprint Notes: from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.06.19)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.66
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dot; Dash
Synopsis: Dot and Dash meet a fox
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Reprint Notes: from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.07.17)
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Pages: 0.34
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Polly; Pa; Bob
Synopsis: Pa goes on a fox hunt
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Reprint Notes: from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.07.17)
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Pages: 0.66
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dot; Dash
Synopsis: Dot and Dash are puzzled by a tortoise
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Reprint Notes: from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.05.22)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.34
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Polly; Pa; Ashur
Synopsis: Ashur's cleaning fluid fails
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Reprint Notes: from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.05.22)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.66
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The Confidante

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lina; Cathy; Frank Dunden; Lina's Partner
Synopsis: Frank is vilified by all the women in town
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In Content Item: FlagDori Stories #[nn] published January 1999
as The Confidante [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Thirteen Fingers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A journalist discovers a secret society
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In Issue: FlagManiac Killer Strikes Again! #[nn] published December 2003
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Tor Johnson in the Country

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Tor Johnson; Tramp
Synopsis: Tor Johnson takes a trip to the country
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In Issue: FlagWarts and All #[nn] published January 1990
In Content Item: FlagHeavy Metal Magazine v11 #2 published January 1987
as Tor Johnson In The Country [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWarts and All #[nn] published March 1994
as Tor Johnson In The Country [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Hero of the Beach Revisited

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A life saved by the ads in comics
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In Issue: FlagJustin Green's Binky Brown Sampler #[nn] published January 1995
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Contributors

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Blurb for all the artists plus the conclusion of Gary Groth's intro.
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Pages: 1
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Treasure of the Lost Empire Chapter One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Rory Randall
Character(s): Rory Randall; Cindy-Lou; Namron the Invincible; Will
Synopsis: Country singer Rory Randall engenders the wrath of a subterranean dictator
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Pages: 15
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[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas
First Line: ABELARD: No need to have any idea of his philosophy, nor even to know the titles of his works.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Illustration of one of Flaubert's pithy sayings from The Dictionary of Received Ideas. From "Abelard" to "Authors."
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dot; Dash
Synopsis: Dot and Dash find a box
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Dot and Dash Sumday (1927.03.06)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.34
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Pa; Polly
Synopsis: Pa goes hunting
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Reprint Notes: from Polly and Her Pals Sumday (1927.03.06)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.66
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for Fantagraphics Books, including The Complete Popeye, Dickie Dare, Prince Valiant and Nemo: The Classics Comics Library.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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