Prime Cuts #1

(March 1987)

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Colors:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dot; Dash

Synopsis:

Dot and Dash go surfing

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 24/7/1927

["Hey Polly! Sharks!!"] (Table of Contents)

Polly and her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Colors:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Polly; Pa; Uncle

Synopsis:

Pa is worried about sharks near the beach

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 24/7/1927

Prime Cuts Words & Pictures (Table of Contents)

credits / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Dori Seda; Alec Stevens; Richard Sala; Robert Crumb; Drew Friedman; Eddie Campbell; Justin Green; Susan Catherine; Mitch Manzer; Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Dori Seda; Alec Stevens; Richard Sala; Robert Crumb; Drew Friedman; Eddie Campbell; Justin Green; Susan Catherine; Mitch Manzer; Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Table of contents plus a quote from Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Introduction (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Gary Groth

Letters:

Typeset

Indexer Notes

Continued several pages later

The Outsider (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

H.P. Lovecraft

Pencils:

Alec Stevens

Inks:

Alec Stevens

Letters:

Alec Stevens

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

An adaptation of the famous short story about a solitary man weary of darkness who is inexorably drawn to a castle tower.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

credits / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Gilbert Hernandez

Inks:

Gilbert Hernandez

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Production and indicia credits. Subscription offer for Prime Cuts with the following month's issue shown.

Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators (Table of Contents)

Aline 'n' Bob / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb [as Aline Crumb]; Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Pencils:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb [as Aline Crumb]; Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Inks:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb [as Aline Crumb]; Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Letters:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb [as Aline Crumb]; Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

biography

Characters:

Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Synopsis:

The problems with having an old refrigerator as a style item

Reprints:

• in The Complete Dirty Laundry Comics (Last Gasp, 1993 series) #[nn] (June 1993)
• in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #16 - The Mid-1980s: More Years of Valiant Struggle (July 2002)
• in Need More Love A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)
• in Drawn Together (W. W. Norton, 2012 series) #[nn] (2012)

Keywords:

autobiography

Blues (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Eddie Campbell

Pencils:

Eddie Campbell

Inks:

Eddie Campbell

Letters:

Eddie Campbell

Content Information

Genre:

biography

Characters:

Eddie Campbell; Georgette Maison; Dave Harwood

Synopsis:

Love's obsession

Keywords:

autobiography

Indexer Notes

Originally released in the UK as a self-published comic

Overheard At America's Lunch Counters (Table of Contents)

Overheard At America's Lunch Counters / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Susan Catherine

Pencils:

Susan Catherine

Inks:

Susan Catherine

Letters:

Susan Catherine

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Eleven quotations heard by the author while waitressing

[Portrait] (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Kenneth Smith

Inks:

Kenneth Smith

Indexer Notes

Accompanies a text story by R.A. Lafferty

Mr. Hamadryad (Table of Contents)

text story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

R.A. Lafferty

Letters:

Typeset

Reality. Fantasy. and Everything in Between (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Gilbert Hernandez

Inks:

Gilbert Hernandez

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Luba

Synopsis:

Ad for Love & Rockets

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dot; Dash

Synopsis:

Dot and Dash chase a bird

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 19/6/1927

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Polly and her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Ashur Perkins; Pa

Synopsis:

Ashur invents flourescent slippers

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 19/6/1927

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dot; Dash

Synopsis:

Dot and Dash meet a fox

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 17/7/1927

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Polly and her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Polly; Pa; Bob

Synopsis:

Pa goes on a fox hunt

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 17/7/1927

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dot; Dash

Synopsis:

Dot and Dash are puzzled by a tortoise

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 22/5/1927

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Polly and her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Polly; Pa; Ashur

Synopsis:

Ashur's cleaning fluid fails

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 22/5/1927

The Confidante (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dori Seda

Pencils:

Dori Seda

Inks:

Dori Seda

Letters:

Dori Seda

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Lina; Cathy; Frank Dunden; Lina's Partner

Synopsis:

Frank is vilified by all the women in town

Reprints:

• in Dori Stories (Last Gasp, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)

The Thirteen Fingers (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Richard Sala

Pencils:

Richard Sala

Inks:

Richard Sala

Letters:

Richard Sala

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A journalist discovers a secret society

Reprints:

• in Maniac Killer Strikes Again! (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) #[nn] (December 2003)

Tor Johnson in the Country (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Johnny Legend

Pencils:

Drew Friedman

Inks:

Drew Friedman

Letters:

Drew Friedman

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Tor Johnson; Tramp

Synopsis:

Tor Johnson takes a trip to the country

Reprints:

• in Warts and All (Penguin, 1990 series) #[nn] (1990)

Hero of the Beach Revisited (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Justin Green

Pencils:

Justin Green

Inks:

Justin Green

Letters:

Justin Green

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

A life saved by the ads in comics

Reprints:

• in Justin Green's Binky Brown Sampler (Last Gasp, 1995 series) #[nn] (1995)

Contributors (Table of Contents)

credits / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gary Groth

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Blurb for all the artists plus the conclusion of Gary Groth's intro.

Treasure of the Lost Empire Chapter One (Table of Contents)

Rory Randall / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mitch Manzer

Pencils:

Mitch Manzer

Inks:

Mitch Manzer

Letters:

Mitch Manzer

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Rory Randall; Cindy-Lou; Namron the Invincible; Will

Synopsis:

Country singer Rory Randall engenders the wrath of a subterranean dictator

["ABELARD: No need to have any idea of his philosophy, nor even to know the titles of his works."] (Table of Contents)

Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas / text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gustave Flaubert

Pencils:

Rick Geary

Inks:

Rick Geary

Letters:

Rick Geary

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

Illustration of one of Flaubert's pithy sayings from The Dictionary of Received Ideas. From "Abelard" to "Authors."

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Colors:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dot; Dash

Synopsis:

Dot and Dash find a box

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 6/3/1927

Untitled (Table of Contents)

Polly and her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Sterrett

Pencils:

Cliff Sterrett

Inks:

Cliff Sterrett

Colors:

Cliff Sterrett

Letters:

Cliff Sterrett

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Pa; Polly

Synopsis:

Pa goes hunting

Indexer Notes

Reprinted newspaper strip from 6/3/1927

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

E.C Segar; Hal Foster; Milton Caniff

Inks:

E.C Segar; Hal Foster; Milton Caniff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Ad for Fantagraphics Books, including The Complete Popeye, Dickie Dare, Prince Valiant and Nemo: The Classics Comics Library.