(1993)
Cartoon Books,
1993 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
- Editing
- Jeff Smith ? (editor)
- Color
- color cover; black and white interior
- Dimensions
- standard Modern Age U.S.
- Paper Stock
- coated stock
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot; giveaway
Issue Notes
Hero Premiere Edition promotional comic polybagged with Hero Illustrated (Warrior Publications, 1993 series) #7 (January 1994).
Noted about the copyright: "Bone is (TM) and (c) 1993 Jeff Smith. The entire contents of this book is (c) Jeff Smith because when you get right down to it, the whole thing was his idea. Please do not infringe on this copyright and force us to send the rat creatures after you. It is, after all, the season for Peace on Earth and Good Will toward all. Now shut up and eat your quiche."
Noted about the copyright: "Bone is (TM) and (c) 1993 Jeff Smith. The entire contents of this book is (c) Jeff Smith because when you get right down to it, the whole thing was his idea. Please do not infringe on this copyright and force us to send the rat creatures after you. It is, after all, the season for Peace on Earth and Good Will toward all. Now shut up and eat your quiche."
[no title indexed]
Bone / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Inks
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Colors
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Letters
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure
- Characters
- Fone Bone; rat creatures
- Synopsis
- Fone Bone offers two rat creatures a present.
Happy Winter Solstice!
Bone / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Pencils
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Inks
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Letters
- Jeff Smith (credited)
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure
- Characters
- Fone Bone; Smiley Bone; Phoney Bone; Thorn; Gran'ma Ben
- Synopsis
- The Bone cousins, Thorn and Gran'ma Ben celebrate Winter Solstice. Fone Bone gives two rat creatures a hot quiche.
- Reprints
- in Bone Reader (Cartoon Books, 1996 series) (1996)
- in Bone (Cartoon Books, 1997 series) #55 (June 2004)
- in Bone: One Volume Edition (Cartoon Books, 2004 series) (2004)
-
in Bone (Astiberri Ediciones, 2007 series) #1 - El Valle (Noviembre 2007)
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Indexer Notes
This story was done especially for Hero preview.
1993
Bone / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure
- Characters
- Fone Bone; Smiley Bone; Phoney Bone; Thorn; Gran'ma Ben
- Synopsis
- Fone Bone, Smiley Bone and Thorn sing carols. Gran'ma Ben has roped Phoney Bone to the top of a Winter Solstice tree.
Animation, Art and Bone
Bone / text article / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure
- Characters
- Jeff Smith; Fone Bone; Phoney Bone; Thorn
- Synopsis
- An interview with Bone creator Jeff Smith by Frank Kurtz.
Indexer Notes
Five illustrations by Jeff Smith.
Early Bone
Bone / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure
- Characters
- Jeff Smith; Fone Bone; Phoney Bone; Thorn
- Synopsis
- Early incarnations of the Bone strip: one from the sixties, an early Bone and four early Thorn.
[Bone Covers]
Bone / cover reprint (on interior page) / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure
- Characters
- Fone Bone; Phoney Bone; Smiley Bone; Thorn
Indexer Notes
Previews of covers of Bone (Cartoon Books, 1991 series) #11 through 13, including uninked #13.
[no title indexed]
Bone / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure
- Characters
- Fone Bone
- Synopsis
- Fone Bone carries a quiche to the forest.
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Reprinted panel from the story.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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[Table of Contents]
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Happy Winter Solstice!
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1993
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Animation, Art and Bone
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Early Bone
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[Bone Covers]
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Cartoon Books Keeps All Issues of Bone in Print!
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Bone
This issue was modified by, among others
- EK
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Gregory Fischer
- Jochen G.
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Matthias Hofmann
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Ramon Schenk
- John P. Selegue
- Jim Van Dore
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