(October 1983)
First,
1983 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-06-14 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- First Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
First Comics
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.; World Color Press
- Editing
- Mike Gold (credited) (president, managing editor, editor); Rick Oliver (credited) (associate editor); Joe Staton (credited) (art director); Bruce Patterson (credited) (production coordinator); Rick Felber (credited) (business manager, treasurer); Kathy Kotsivas (credited) (office manager); Rick Obadiah (credited) (publisher, secretary); Kenneth Levin (credited as Kenneth F. Levin) (director); Ralph Musicant (credited as Ralph C. Musicant) (director); Post Graphics (credited) (engraving)
Issue Notes
On-sale date based on listing of FIRST's titles released in June within the regular feature "First Notes" and on Amazing Heroes date for issue #2 (1983-07-14), #3 (1983-08-14) and #4 (1983-09-14).
Previously noted as 1983-09-15 based on: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Public Catalog, Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) online (http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First) retrieved 15 August 2015. Registration date: 16 October 2008. Copyright registration number: TX0007249531. Copyright Claimant: Howard Chaykin, Inc., address: c/o Law Offices of Harris M. Miller II, 8424A Santa Monica Boulevard, #127, West Hollywood, CA, 90069-4267.
Original indicia copyright information: Copyright 1983 by First Comics, Inc. and Howard Chaykin. Office of publication: 1014 Davis Street, Evanston, IL 60201.
Previously noted as 1983-09-15 based on: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Public Catalog, Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) online (http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First) retrieved 15 August 2015. Registration date: 16 October 2008. Copyright registration number: TX0007249531. Copyright Claimant: Howard Chaykin, Inc., address: c/o Law Offices of Harris M. Miller II, 8424A Santa Monica Boulevard, #127, West Hollywood, CA, 90069-4267.
Original indicia copyright information: Copyright 1983 by First Comics, Inc. and Howard Chaykin. Office of publication: 1014 Davis Street, Evanston, IL 60201.
Back in the USA!!
American Flagg / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Mike Gold (see notes)
- Pencils
- Howard Chaykin (signed as
Chaykin) - Inks
- Howard Chaykin (signed as Chaykin)
- Colors
- Lynn Varley (see notes)
- Letters
- Alex Jay (logo design, see notes); Ken Bruzenak (lettering, see notes)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Reuben Flagg
- Reprints
-
in American Flagg! (Cedibra, 1987 series) #1 (outubro 1987) -
in American Flagg!: The Definitive Edition (Image Comics and Dynamic Forces, 2008 series) #1 (2008) which is reprinted - in American Flagg! (Mythos Editora, 2015 series) (novembro 2015)
- in American Flagg!: The Definitive Edition (Image Comics and Dynamic Forces, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
-
in American Flagg! (NORMA Editorial, 2011 series) (Diciembre 2011) - in Star*Reach Companion: The Complete History of the Influential 1970s Independent Comic (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2013 series) (July 2013)
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in American Flagg (Urban Comics, 2021 series) (novembre 2021) [partially]
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- Keywords
- United States flag
Indexer Notes
Logo design credit from Todd Klein based on Alex Jay's original logo artwork posted to Klein's Facebook page under Comics Logos A #34: AMERICAN FLAGG! on 3 February 2021.
The cover scripter, cover colorist, cover letterer, and cover logo design credits confirmed by Howard Chaykin, posting to the Facebook page, Comic Book Historians on 11 February 2021.
Hard Times
American Flagg / comic story / 28 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Hilton Kreiger; Reuben Flagg; Gretchen Holstrum; Raul; Mandy Kreiger; Charles Blitz; Cyril Farid-Khan
- Synopsis
- New Plexus Ranger Reuben Flagg takes up his assignment in the Chicago Plexmall.
- Reprints
- in American Flagg!: Hard Times (First Comics Graphic Novel Number Three) (First, 1985 series) (June 1985) which is reprinted
- in Graphic Album (Editora Abril, 1990 series) #3 - American Flagg! - Tempos Difíceis (dezembro 1990)
-
in Maxx (Epix, 1986 series) #1/1986 ([januari] 1986) - in Zona 84 (Toutain Editor, 1984 series) #31 ([diciembre 1986]), #32 ([enero 1987]), #33 ([febrero 1987])
- in American Flagg! (Cedibra, 1987 series) #1 (outubro 1987)
- in American Flagg!: Hard Times (Graphitti Designs, 1987 series) ([July] 1988)
- in American Flagg!: The Definitive Edition (Image Comics and Dynamic Forces, 2008 series) #1 (2008) which is reprinted
- in American Flagg! (Mythos Editora, 2015 series) (novembro 2015)
- in American Flagg!: The Definitive Edition (Image Comics and Dynamic Forces, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in American Flagg! (NORMA Editorial, 2011 series) (Diciembre 2011)
- in American Flagg (Urban Comics, 2021 series) (novembre 2021)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Back in the USA!!
American Flagg -
1.
Dirty Words
First Notes -
2.
Hard Times
American Flagg -
3.
Glenwood Distributors, Inc.
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4.
[no title indexed]
Plex Mail -
5.
[no title indexed]
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6.
The Winning Line-Up!
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7.
Capital's New Color Comics
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8.
Judge Dredd is Coming!
Judge Dredd
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