The Comics Journal
#174
(February 1995)
Fantagraphics,
1977 Series
- Price
- 5.95 USD; 7.50 CAD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Barcode
- 074470741145 02
- Editing
- Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Tom Spurgeon (credited) (managing editor); Eric Reynolds (credited) (news editor); Dale Yarger (credited) (art director)
Issue Notes
Flip covers. Front cover painting by Frank Frazetta, Back cover, Dave Sim caricature by Bill Willingham. All text is aligned with the front cover. Interview with Frank Frazetta. Obituaries for Robert Osborn, Frank Robbins, and Tony Weare. Sketchbook by Renée French. Letters from Bill Leibowitz, Steven Abrams, Hart Fisher, Ian Cairns (England), Steve Lafler, Mark Jay Feldman, Bob Matson, M. T. Robinson, and Donna Barr.
The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
[no title indexed]
In Other Words / cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Mark Martin (credited) (signed as Martin)
- Pencils
- Mark Martin (credited) (signed as Martin)
- Inks
- Mark Martin (credited) (signed as Martin)
- Letters
- Mark Martin (credited) (signed as Martin)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here's the Sex War I Thinking Ace Victor Davis hot on the tail (or "tail") of his arch foe the Dread Barren!
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Cerebus
- Synopsis
- Cerebus riding Snoopy's dog house, dressed as the World War I flying ace, but with an outer space background.
Indexer Notes
Reference is to a misogynist essay by Dave Sim in Cerebus the Aardvark #186.
Frank Frazetta
about comics / 33.8 pages
- Script
- Frank Frazetta (credited) (interviewee); Gary Groth (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Frank Frazetta (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Frazetta (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 52 - 90
Indexer Notes
Interview with Frank Frazetta, conducted by Gary Groth in November and December 1994.
[The Ghost Rider #5 (ME) Cover]
The Ghost Rider / cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.4 page
- Pencils
- Frank Frazetta (signed as FF)
- Inks
- Frank Frazetta (signed as FF)
- Genre
- superhero; western-frontier
- Characters
- Ghost Rider [Rex Fury]
- Reprints
-
from The Ghost Rider (Magazine Enterprises, 1950 series) #5 [A-1 #37] (1951) [black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Grayscale reprint of color cover.
[Weird Science Fantasy #29 (EC) Cover]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.8 page
- Pencils
- Frank Frazetta (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Frazetta (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1954 series) #29 (May-June 1955) [black and white, illustration only]
-
Indexer Notes
Black and white reprint of color cover. Only illustration is reprinted.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
["Here's the Sex War I Thinking Ace Victor Davis hot on the tail (or "tail") of his arch foe the Dread Barren!"]
In Other Words -
2.
Frank Frazetta
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3.
[The Ghost Rider #5 (ME) Cover]
The Ghost Rider -
4.
[Weird Science Fantasy #29 (EC) Cover]
This issue was modified by
- Merlin Haas
- Steven Samuels
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