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Issue: World War 3 Illustrated #17
Publication Date: January 1992
 
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Pages: 108
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 29 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers, Black & White Interiors #1-35; Mostly Black & White with Occasional Color #36 & up
Dimensions: Standard US Magazine Size #1-39; 7" x 11" (17.78 cm x 27.94 cm) #40 & up
Paper Stock: Newsprint #1-39 ?
Binding: Saddle-Stitched #1-11; #13-38; Perfect Bound #12; #39 & up
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
After over a decade of police brutality, toxic waste, backlash against women, gays, blacks and poor folks in general, people have finally had enough...
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Accompanied by a brief intro, an illustration and indicia. "Dedicated to those murdered by the police in L.A. Riot of 1992, and to all those murdered in this country's ongoing war against people of color in the last ten years."
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TKO

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FlagHeavy Metal Magazine v18 [16] #5 [6] published January 1993
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FlagSpeechless #[nn] published January 2001
as TKO [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The last page of the story is an alternate version of the cover images of Cheval Noir #29 and his Speechless book.
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The L.A. Riots: Glass House Still Standing

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Accompanied by six illustrations of varying sizes and a strip by Tobocman with this first line of dialogue: "The media never stop talking about the revolt of the 60's, as if revolt was a fad..." Kuper's full-page illustration is titled "Recipe for a Riot"
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The Trouble with Billy

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Oliver North; Eugene Hasenfus
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Choice Cut

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humorous
The Odious Omnivor and His Racketeer Ring
The Odious Omnivore; Noble Serf
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Attack of the Killer Budget

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humorous
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Made for Artists for Limiting Military Spending. Likely originally a poster / flyer
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Amerikkka is Over

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Clarence Thomas
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An anti-war screed that includes some speech samples from JFK and MLK. Story told using full-page illustrations
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Mandatory Specimen- A "Notification Law" Fantasy

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Female Resident
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics #[nn] published September 1995
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[untitled]

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In Doctrine Nation
The Girl
I awoke to find my self surrounded by dogs... I realized that they were police dogs... I had fallen asleep in the cop dog kennels...
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics #[nn] published September 1995
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Sixteen Minutes to Die!! (The Gas Chamber is Back!!)

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Happy Birthday

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Alien Boy
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"It's late at night sign-off time on T.V. and the land of the free"
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Sabrina Jones' Book Report

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Sabrina Jones; Margaret Bourke-White
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Fourth of July in America

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typeset
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humorous
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When Did the War in the Persian Gulf Really End?

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Made for Artists for Limiting Military Spending. Also likely originally published as a poster
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Back Issues

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Order info for issues #5-16 of the series and the first anthology. Includes small-size cover images of all
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One Nation Under the Gun / Sweet Lizard Ill-Tet!

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Two full-page ads. The first one promotes Rick Hornung's "One Nation Under the Gun: Inside the Mohawk Civil War" (accompanied by a recommendation by the WW3 staff). Lastly, a full-page ad made by Tobocman promoting the Sweet Lizard Illtet's first CD (with sample lyrics)
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A Reply to "Sex and Sexism in Comics," from World War III #16

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Sternbergh's response to Trina Robbins' article from the previous issue
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Letters

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Letters from Paul Therrio, Ozker, Aletheya in response to Trina's article from last issue. Also includes a brief statement by the WW3 staff
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Todd's Copy Shop / Revolution Books / Max.Fish

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Three small ads
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Don Pedro Albizu Campos: A Revolutionist

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Don Pedro Albizu Campos
A history of the Puerto Rican patriot's opposition to Yankee imperialism
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text interwoven with various illustrations
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Today I Was a Commercial Artist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Sabrina Jones
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics #[nn] published September 1995
as Today I was a Commercial Artist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Disease of the City

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FlagCompendium Comix Anthology #[nn] published January 1992
 
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"Text based on studies by Roderick Wallace"
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What Happened to the Tompkins Sq. Park Bandshell

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Women Awake! A Call to Direct Action

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Women's Underground Action Conspiracy
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Accompanied by a single illustration
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Night in Jail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Old Bird; Barbara Robin Lee; The Gidget Women; The Home Girls; Rodney King; Fellow Demonstrator; Night Court Judge
The artist recounts her thoughts on the L.A. Riots and the night she spent in jail after taking pictures during a demonstration
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Title from the table of contents.
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Flood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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FlagFlood! A Novel in Pictures #[nn] published January 1992
FlagFlood!: A Novel in Pictures #[nn] published October 2002
FlagFlood!: A Novel in Pictures #[nn] published April 2007
FlagFlut! Ein Roman in Bildern #[nn] published January 2013
FlagHeavy Metal Magazine v16 #2 [3] published July 1992
was Flood [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
19
Includes four additional pages not included in the previous appearance
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A New World Order- Currently [August 2792]

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A New World Order
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"Wasboulder has 225 persons. 15 are children over the age of 4."
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[untitled]

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Remembering 62nd & Osage Ave., Philadelphia, May 13, 1985. The bombing of the MOVE family...
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A nearly full-page portait accompanied by a brief text piece. Back cover

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