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Issue: Prime Cuts #10
Publication Date: December 1988
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Issues: #10 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.25 CAD
$3.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Mature Readers
Content Items: 32 (25 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: First printing: November 1988
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Pages: 1
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Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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O Canada Our Home and Native Land

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Masumi Mitsui; Evacuation Officer
Synopsis: A shameful episode from Canada's wartime past
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In Content Item: FlagThe Best Comics of the Decade #1 published June 1990
as O Canada Our Home and Native Land [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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Goin' Rabbitin'

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Keith; Lindsay Arnold [as Linz]; Uncle Reg; Uncle Perce [Uncle Percy]; Baz [Barry]; Bill the Dog
Synopsis: Recollections of a childhood holiday
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Linzee Arnold credited as Lindsay Arnold in this issue. Subtitled “The Captain Owns Up: How I Became a Bunny."
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Rice Paper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Wayne Honath
Synopsis: Wayne talks to an obssessive record collector
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Pages: 2
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TV and Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The seductive power of TV
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Pages: 1
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One Night on Market St.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Feature(s): Diary
Character(s): Michael Gilbert; Girl
Synopsis: Michael meets a deluded girl one night
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From Content Item: FlagDr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories #5/6 published January 1980
was One Night on Market St. [Story on Interior Page(s)]as a single page with different art; redrawn and expanded to 3 pages
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Pages: 3
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Windy Breeze
Character(s): Windy Breeze
First Line: Are indians really as wild as they were in the movie unk?
Synopsis: A tall tale exposed
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From Content Item: FlagNational Comics #19 published January 1942
was Indian Jive [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Bottle

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: philosophical
Character(s): The Husband; The Wife; The Infant; The Son; The Daughter
Synopsis: The dangers of drink. A series of eight engravings illustrate the downward spiral of a family due to the father's drinking.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Originally published as a folio
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The Diet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A fat guy starts a diet tomorrow
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Pages: 4
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Ligeia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Man; Ligeia
Synopsis: A man describes his love. A send-up of the Edgar Allan Poe story.
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Pages: 2
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Concerning the Soul

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 3
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The Fantagraphics 500 – Complete Catalogue: Winter 1988/89

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 16
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mr. Groff; Gomer Goof [Gaston Lagaffe]; Balloon Seller
First Line: Huh?! Not Again!?
Synopsis: Gaston trains a bird to pop bubbles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Originally appeared in France. Page numbered #672. No translation credits given for this issue's Gaston strips.
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Gomer Goof [Gaston Lagaffe]; Poet; Mr. Groff
First Line: Hey! Couldn't you have found a better road to drive on, Goof?
Synopsis: Gaston takes his boss for a drive
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page numbered #674.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mr. Groff; Gomer Goof [Gaston Lagaffe]
First Line: ...Yep, it's a scarlet runner from my Aunt Hortense's garden!
Synopsis: Gaston is told plants respond to music
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page numbered #676
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: promo for back issues of “Prime Cuts” and other Fantagraphics publications
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Feature(s): Minor Memories and the Art of Adolescence
Character(s): Craig Maynard; Chris Maynard; Stuart Maynard; Mr Maynard
First Line: Are you going to run that washer now?
Synopsis: Memories of a violent drunken father
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Pages: 6
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Howie Patterson's America

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Howie Patterson
Synopsis: Howie's sad life in a land of opportunity
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In Content Item: FlagBeer Nutz #1 published January 1991
as Howie Patterson's America [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bar-Talk Duets
Character(s): Mr. Slocni; Rube
First Line: Hey, yaka-yaka _ _ reading dat 'ol language-philosophy book!!!
Synopsis: What is a humdinger?
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bar-Talk Duets
Character(s): Mr. Slocni; Jimmy
First Line: Hey!! Dere used 't' be three fish!!
Synopsis: A goldfish disappears
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bar-Talk Duets
Character(s): Mr. Slocni; Rube
First Line: Ach, my friend- how odd you should choose to go upside-down!!
Synopsis: Old jokes
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Pages: 0.2
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bar-Talk Duets
Character(s): Rube; Mr. Slocni; Jimmy
First Line: Hey, Rube- I wuz reading an article on philosophy in "Mechanix Illustrated" --
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Pages: 0.6
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bar-Talk Duets
Character(s): Rube; Mr. Slocni
First Line: Aw, c'mon, Rube- it'sa constitootional right - you can't yell "Fire!!" in a theatre --
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Good Times with Meaning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Edge
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Pages: 0.5
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Tired of Yourself?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Edge
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Pages: 0.5
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Complainers Anonymous

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Edge
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Pages: 0.5
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Uncreative Visualization

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Edge
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Pages: 0.5
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Viking

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Feature(s): Diary
Synopsis: Michael attends a reconstruction of a Viking battle
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Pages: 1
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Chapter One: The Settlers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Adventure Ohio
Character(s): Ezariah; Donna; Chief Tomihawk; Johnny Appleseed; The Major; Celestial Nubin
Synopsis: Ezariah journeys to Ohio
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In Content Item: FlagGraphic Story Monthly #1 published January 1990
as Chapter One: The Settlers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The story continues in the first issue of Graphic Story Monthly
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas
First Line: Ice Cream: It is dangerous to eat it.
Synopsis: This month's installment covers from "ice cream" to "keepsake."
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A single Geary illustration for the word “javelin”
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: promos for "Into Every Life a Little Edge Must Fall" & "The Complete Crumb Comics" on inside back and back covers.

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