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Issue: The Best American Comics #2009
Publication Date: January 2009
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Issues: #2009 of 14 Issues
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Publisher: FlagHoughton Mifflin
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Indicia Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
On Sale Date: 10/2009
Volume: none
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780618989652
UPC/EAN: 978061898965252200
Price: $22.00 USD
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Content Items: 47 (38 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color Cover; Mostly Black & White interior
Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 1/4 inches tall (18.41 cm x 23.49 cm)
Paper Stock: book paper
Binding: Hardcover; some issues with no dust jacket
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Some/all of 3 other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagMome #9 published January 2007
FlagThe New Yorker #11/26/2007 published November 2007
FlagHotwire #2 published January 2008
1 Content Item from another Issue reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagSuperior Showcase #3 published June 2008 was Freaks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Endpapers

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Title Page and Credits

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Contents

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Preface

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Introduction

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Shh!

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Genres: humorous
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Justin M. Damiano

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Character(s): Justin M. Damiano; Marion Putman-Zeiring; Roy Eppley; Courtney Heisler; Movie Director
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Artist vs. Artisan

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Underworld

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Genres: humorous
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Hillbillys 'R' Dumb

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Why I Write Only About Myself...

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Our Beloved Tape Dispenser

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Character(s): Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb; Hector; Phil White; Kathy Kurzbacher
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Indian Spirit Chewing Gum

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Faux advertisement for chewing gum, "haunted with real dead Indian flavor."
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Crime Is Pushing the Limits!

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Twain and Einstein
Character(s): Mark Twain; Albert Einstein
Synopsis: Twain and Einstein are policemen, waging war against crime.
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Page 1, panel 1 is an homage to the cover of The Super Cops (Archie, 1974 series) #1.
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Spirit Duplicator

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The Company

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Shortcomings (Excerpt)

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Over Easy

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!

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Genres: biography
Synopsis: Art Spiegelman and his mother get beaten up by a bully.
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Cruddy

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When I Was Eleven

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Ring Tones

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gropius
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Dal Tokyo

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Disinfected Youth

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Gravel Migration

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The Wide Riders

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Silent Comics

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Mosfet Warlock and the Mechlin Men

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Slumburbia

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The Galactic Funnels

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Berlin (Excerpt)

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Genres: historical
Feature(s): Berlin
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Feature(s): Maakies
First Line: When Kimberly was a little girl she used to watch...
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Black Death

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Jordan W. Lint

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Fuzz & Pluck in Splitsville (Excerpt)

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Freaks

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Genres: drama
Character(s): Ada; Calum
Synopsis: Ada helps care for her younger sister Calum at home and school, seemingly without parental support.
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Skim (Excerpt)

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Genres: drama
Character(s): Kim
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Antoinette

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Pulverize

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Genres: drama
Feature(s): Glenn Ganges
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The Argument

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Genres: humorous
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5:45 A.M.

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Papa

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Genres: drama
Synopsis: A man far from home suffers from a parasite infection.
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The Hand That Feeds

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Genres: drama, fantasy, nature
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Hope Gropius

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Credits

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Endpapers

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