Action Girl Comics #3

(April 1995)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sarah Dyer

Letters:

typeset

Mile Marker (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jessica Abel

Pencils:

Jessica Abel

Inks:

Jessica Abel

Letters:

Jessica Abel

Content Information

Synopsis:

House painters have to stop working when a rain storm arrives. While they are packing up their supplies, a motorcycle with 2 riders goes by at very high speed. Not long after a semi truck drives by. A few miles down the road the painters see the truck at the side of the road, the driver is flagging them down. The motorcycle they had seen earlier is lying on the road, but no sign of the riders. They look around, then see them lying on the road, twisted like rag dolls, dead.

Tobey's Tips For Fanboys (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

Chris Tobey

Pencils:

Chris Tobey

Inks:

Chris Tobey

Letters:

Chris Tobey

Content Information

Synopsis:

A woman offers tips on how to have a more normal life to the stereotypical superhero comic fanboy.

Fishead Goes Undercover (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

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Script:

Carolyn Ridsdale

Pencils:

Carolyn Ridsdale

Inks:

Carolyn Ridsdale

Letters:

Carolyn Ridsdale

Content Information

Characters:

Fishead

Synopsis:

Fishead goes undercover as a general/military dictator in order to catch who is selling illegal weapons such as missile, tanks, torture devices, airplanes, etc.

"She Likes Rude People" (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

Emily Ryan Lerner

Pencils:

Emily Ryan Lerner

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Emily Ryan Lerner

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Emily Ryan Lerner

Content Information

Synopsis:

Several examples of people who are rude or obnoxious in public. She likes rude people because there are so many of them.

Rollerskates (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Script:

Ariel Bordeaux

Pencils:

Ariel Bordeaux

Inks:

Ariel Bordeaux

Letters:

Ariel Bordeaux

Content Information

Synopsis:

A girl goes rollerskating, but has trouble keeping her balance until she starts singing the "Rollercoaster of Love" out loud. Just when all is going well, she trips over a sidewalk curb. A man wearing no pants offers her a hand, she jumps up, he says he didn't mean to scare her, she rollerskates back home.

All Girls Together (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

Carol Seatory

Pencils:

Carol Seatory

Inks:

Carol Seatory

Letters:

Carol Seatory

Content Information

Synopsis:

A woman treats herself to a magazine. The articles all make her feel like she needs new clothes, a new hairstyle, to lose weight, to exercise more, and that her relationships fail because she's neurotic. As she puts down the magazine she thinks that she always feels better after a good read.

Cathode Slave (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

Patty Leidy

Pencils:

Patty Leidy

Inks:

Patty Leidy

Letters:

Patty Leidy

Content Information

Synopsis:

A woman talks about how her productivity declines when the new Fall TV season starts, but realizes she is obsessed, and decides that it's OK as she sits down to watch a "Roseanne" rerun.

Composition (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

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Script:

Megan Kelso

Pencils:

Megan Kelso

Inks:

Megan Kelso

Letters:

Megan Kelso

Content Information

Characters:

Audrey; Jack; Professor Sims

Synopsis:

Audrey is writing a musical fugue while thinking about breaking up with her boyfriend, Jack. She falls asleep at the piano. Jack arrives, she plays her fugue for him, and the message comes through in the music even with no words. He takes back the locket he gave her, then leaves.

Your Hostesses (Table of Contents)

credits / 1.5 pages (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Info about the contributors to this issue, in order of appearance in the issue. Info tells about their other credits, and gives mailing addresses for each contributor, along with mail order prices for their own publications.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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Pencils:

Evan Dorkin; Sarah Dyer

Inks:

Evan Dorkin; Sarah Dyer

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typeset

Indexer Notes

Advertisement for an Action Girl T-shirt featuring a drawing of Action Girl by Evan Dorkin. Also features small black-and-white reproduction of the cover for Action Girl Comics (Slave Labor Graphics, 1994 series) #4, and info on the contens of that issue.

Further Reading (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Info on other books recommended by the editor, both for self-published mini-comics and for other comics, also has a coupon for a Slave Labor Graphics catalog and a free Action Girl sticker (featuring the image from the T-shirt).

Action Mail (Table of Contents)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters commenting on Action Girl Comics (Slave Labor Graphics, 1994 series) #1 and #2.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

Indexer Notes

Advertisement for the May 14, 1995 Alternative Press Expo convention (A.P.E. II).