Strange Fruit #1 [BOOM! Ten Years Cover]
(July 2015)

Boom! Studios, 2015 Series
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Price
3.99 USD
Pages
28
On-sale Date
2015-07-08
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Boom! Studios
Brand
Ten Years Boom! Studios
Barcode
844284004831 00111
Editing
Ian Brill

Issue Notes

Wraparound cover with art by J. G. Jones.

"Strange Fruit" is the title of a 1937 poem (later set to music) by Abel Meeropol, protesting lynching.
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Strange Fruit / cover / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
J. G. Jones (signed) [as JJG]
Inks
J. G. Jones (signed) [as JJG]
Colors
J. G. Jones (signed) [as JJG]
Genre
historical; superhero
Characters
Johnson; townsfolk
Reprints
Keywords
Flood

Indexer Notes

Jones uses a signature that reads "JJG" left to right, but the central J is larger than the other letters, suggesting his name of J. G. Jones.

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credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Strange Fruit

Indexer Notes

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Strange Fruit / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
J. G. Jones; Mark Waid
Pencils
J. G. Jones (credited) (signed) [as JJG]
Inks
J. G. Jones (credited) (signed) [as JJG]
Colors
J. G. Jones (credited) (signed) [as JJG]
Letters
Deron Bennett
First Line of Dialogue or Text
...Cain't hardly remember what the damn sun looks like...
Genre
historical; superhero
Characters
Ku Klux Klan members; African American farm workers; workers on the levees; Sonny; Pickens; Sarah Lantry; Senator Blankenship; Johnson; Mr. Watson; Mr. McCoy
Synopsis
As floods threaten a small town in the southern U.S., Ku Klux Klan members round up black men for forced labor on the levees. A small white boy goes missing as a silent black man arrives. He is almost twice the size of a normal man and possesses prodigious strength. He never speaks, and presumably has arrived by what appears to be a crashed spacecraft. He drives off Klan members, and Sonny christens him Johnson.
Reprints
Keywords
African American; African-American; Afro-American; flood; Great Depression; Ku Klux Klan; negro; race relations

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

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  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Strange Fruit
  2. 1. ["Strange Fruit"]
  3. 2. ["...Cain't hardly remember what the damn sun looks like..."]
    Strange Fruit
  4. 3. ["We are Boom! Studios"]
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