Eightball
#1
(August 1989)
Fantagraphics,
1989 Series
- Price
- 2.00 USD; 2.50 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Published three times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1989-08-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Recommended for Mature Readers
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
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Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
1st printing: June 1989
The on-sale date is the date of publication reported for the issue in Daniel Clowes' copyright registrations for "The Laffin' Spittin' Man" and the issue's installment of "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron."
This issue has variants:
The on-sale date is the date of publication reported for the issue in Daniel Clowes' copyright registrations for "The Laffin' Spittin' Man" and the issue's installment of "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron."
This issue has variants:
- Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 [Second Printing]
- Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 [Third Printing]
- Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 [Fourth Printing]
- Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 [Fifth Printing]
- Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 [Seventh Printing]
- Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 [Sixth Printing]
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[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Letters
- Daniel Clowes; typeset
- Synopsis
- indicia and production credits; table of contents
- Reprints
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron / comic story / 13 pages
- Characters
- Clay Loudermilk; Paul; 2 Policemen
- Synopsis
- Clay sees a strange and compelling film titled 'Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron' and attempts to discover more about it.
- Reprints
-
in Pox (Epix, 1984 series) #4/1991 (1991) [1st panel on page one only] -
in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) (May 1993) which is reprinted -
in Wie ein samtener Handschuh in eisernen Fesseln (Reprodukt, 1994 series) (November 1993) - in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #[nn] (May 1993)
- in Wie ein samtener Handschuh in eisernen Fesseln (Reprodukt, 2011 series) (1994)
- in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 1998 series) #[nn] (December 1998) which is reprinted
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in 鉄で造ったベルベットの手袋のように [Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron] (Presspop Inc., 2005 ? series) (2005) - in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 2017 series) (2017)
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in Novela Gráfica 2019 (Levoir, 2019 series) #9 - Como uma Luva de Veludo Forjada em Ferro (2019) - in The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (Harry N. Abrams, 2012 series) ([April] 2012) [1st panel of page one only- used as front cover]
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
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Devil Doll?
comic story / 3 pages
- Characters
- Pat; Greg; Ms. Nimrod; Dr. Nimrod; Pat's Father; Margaret (Pat's Mother); Bad Bill; The Ram; Ms. Chill; Satan; Moloch
- Reprints
- in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) (October 1991)
- in Twentieth Century Eightball (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) ([2002])
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
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Indexer Notes
Fred Altegott given credit for help with this strip, which is a pastiche of the Jack Chick published religious tracts and cameos some characters from them.
The Laffin' Spittin' Man
Lloyd Llewelyn / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Lloyd Llewellyn; Louise Ceeley; Emmett Ceeley; Laffin' Spittin' Man
- Synopsis
- Lloyd's philandering has unforeseen consequences
- Reprints
- in The New Comics Anthology (Macmillan Publishing, 1991 series) (1991)
- in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) (October 1991)
- in The Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn: A Golden Treasury of His Complete Works (Fantagraphics, 1994 series) (May 1994)
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
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Young Dan Pussey
Dan Pussey / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Dan Pussey; Dan Clowes; Doctor Infinity; Toothbrush Fukuda; Jackie Roth; Helmut Szucker; Chic Dusendorf; Dick Small; Herm Yunick
- Synopsis
- Satire about monthly mass-produced superhero comics
- Reprints
- in Pussey! (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (July 1995)
- in Pussey! (Fantagraphics, 2006 series) (July 2006)
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
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Indexer Notes
Fred Altegott given credit for help with this strip. Herm Yunick is a caricature of then Comic Buyers Guide editor Don Thompson
Puss In Booths
illustration / 0.66 page
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Excerpt from fake porno novel 'Puss In Booths'
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.34 page
- Synopsis
- promo for "girlie ties" hand-painted by Clowes
What Is the Most Important Invention of the Twentieth Century?
Duplex Planet / comic story / 1 page
- Reprints
- in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) (October 1991)
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
- from Duplex Planet (David Greenberger, 1979 series) #?
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Indexer Notes
Adapts answers given by people in an old folks home and originally published in Duplex Planet. This is the back cover
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron -
1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron -
3.
Devil Doll?
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4.
The Laffin' Spittin' Man
Lloyd Llewelyn -
5.
Young Dan Pussey
Dan Pussey -
6.
Puss In Booths
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7.
[no title indexed]
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8.
What Is the Most Important Invention of the Twentieth Century?
Duplex Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- R. S. Martin
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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