The Big Book of Conspiracies [Second Printing]
(1995)

DC, 1995 Series
Published in English (United States) United States
 
Price
14.95 USD; 20.95 CAD
Pages
228
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Suggested for Mature Readers
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Paradox Press
Brand
Factoid Books; [Paradox Press]
ISBN
1-56389-186-7 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
761941204130 00112; 9781563891861 51495
Editing
Bronwyn Carlton Taggart; Jim Higgins (assistant)
Color
color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions
8 1/2 inches by 10 7/8 inches
Paper Stock
cardstock cover; matte interior
Binding
squarebound
Publishing Format
one-shot

Issue Notes

Printed in Canada.

Letterers for interior sequences are listed as a group on page below indicia: Bob Lappan, Gail Beckett, Agnes Pinaha, Willie Schubert, Steve Smith, Roxanne Starr, L. Lois Buhalis, Ken Bruzenak, and Albert DeGuzman.

One of the seventeen Paradox Press series of Big Books:
1994 - The Big Book of Urban Legends
1995 - The Big Book of Death; The Big Book of Weirdos; The Big Book of Conspiracies;
1996 - The Big Book of Freaks; The Big Book of Little Criminals; The Big Book of Hoaxes; The Big Book of Thugs
1997 - The Big Book of Losers; The Big Book of The Unexplained; The Big Book of Martyrs; The Big Book of Scandal
1998 - The Big Book of Bad; The Big Book of the Weird Wild West
1999 - The Big Book of Vice; The Big Book of Grimm
2000 - The Big Book of the '70s
This issue is a variant of The Big Book of Conspiracies (DC, 1995 series) [First Printing].
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The Big Book of Conspiracies (Table of Contents: 1)

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Title page with illustration.

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

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Introduction (Table of Contents: 3)

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Reverend Ivan Stang
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Publisher's Note (Table of Contents: 4)

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Roger Langridge (credited)
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Roger Langridge (credited)
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Foreword (Table of Contents: 5)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Michael Avon Oeming (credited)
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Classic Conspiracies (Table of Contents: 6)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Introduction to Chapter One: Classic Conspiracies.

Coincidence or Consequence? (Table of Contents: 7)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Robin Smith (credited)
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Robin Smith (credited)
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The Ones That Got Away (Table of Contents: 8)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Randy DuBurke (credited)
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Randy DuBurke (credited)
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Other Oswalds (Table of Contents: 9)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Danny Hellman (credited)
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Danny Hellman (credited)
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The King Killers (Table of Contents: 10)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Russ Braun (credited as Russell Braun)
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Russ Braun (credited as Russell Braun)
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Kennedy-King Connections (Table of Contents: 11)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Barron Storey (credited)
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Barron Storey (credited)
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The RFK Conspiracy (Table of Contents: 12)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Zina Saunders (credited)
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Zina Saunders (credited)
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Big Brother's Greatest Hits (Table of Contents: 13)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Introduction to Chapter Two: Big Brother's Greatest Hits.

Psychedelic CIA (Table of Contents: 14)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Alex Wald (credited)
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Alex Wald (credited)
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Masking the Face of Mars (Table of Contents: 15)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Graham Higgins (credited)
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Graham Higgins (credited)
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Brotherhood of the Magic Bullet (Table of Contents: 16)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Kirk-Albert Etienne (credited)
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Kirk-Albert Etienne (credited)
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Jonestown Electric Kool-Aid Conspiracy Test (Table of Contents: 17)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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John Garcia (credited)
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John Garcia (credited)
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Jonestown's Ultra Fallout (Table of Contents: 18)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Jeff Newman (credited)
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Jeff Newman (credited)
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Secret CIA Links (Table of Contents: 19)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Paul Guinan (credited)
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Paul Guinan (credited)
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Choppers of the New World Order (Table of Contents: 20)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Ernie Stiner (credited)
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Ernie Stiner (credited)
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Trouble in Weirdland (Table of Contents: 21)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Introduction to Chapter Three: Trouble in Weirdland.

Saucer Sorcery (Table of Contents: 22)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Rick Geary (credited)
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Rick Geary (credited)
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Moongate (Table of Contents: 23)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Pat Broderick (credited)
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Pat Broderick (credited)
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No-Moon Gate (Table of Contents: 24)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Carl Critchlow (credited)
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Carl Critchlow (credited)
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Bay of Bush Pigs (Table of Contents: 25)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Roger Langridge (credited)
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Roger Langridge (credited)
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The Physicist and the Flying Saucers (Table of Contents: 26)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Frank Quitely (credited)
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Frank Quitely (credited)
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Synchronspiracy! (Table of Contents: 27)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Mitch O'Connell (credited)
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Mitch O'Connell (credited)
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Killing Castro (Table of Contents: 28)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Graham Manley (credited)
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Graham Manley (credited)
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Paranoia Potpourri (Table of Contents: 29)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Introduction to Chapter Four: Paranoia Potpourri.

The Cannabis Conspiracy (Table of Contents: 30)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Bryan Talbot (credited)
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Bryan Talbot (credited)
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Conspiracy Quotes (Table of Contents: 31)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Lennie Mace (credited)
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Lennie Mace (credited)
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The Sugar Daddy, the Stuttering Blonde, and the Silent Tramp (Table of Contents: 32)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Russ Heath (credited)
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Russ Heath (credited)
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Fractured Factoids (Table of Contents: 33)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Art Wetherell (credited)
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Art Wetherell (credited)
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Odd Passings and Other Assassinations (Table of Contents: 34)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Introduction to Chapter Five: Odd Passings and Other Assassinations.

The Strange Death of Malcolm X (Table of Contents: 35)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Donald David (credited)
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Donald David (credited)
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Come On, Baby, Douse My Fire (Table of Contents: 36)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Michael Avon Oeming (credited)
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Michael Avon Oeming (credited)
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More Morrison Mojo (Table of Contents: 37)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Tristan Schane (credited)
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Tristan Schane (credited)
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Peril in Plutonium (Table of Contents: 38)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Tayyar Ozkan (credited)
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Tayyar Ozkan (credited)
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Gal Killin' (Table of Contents: 39)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Justin Green (credited)
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Justin Green (credited)
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Historical Hysteria (Table of Contents: 40)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Introduction to Chapter Six: Historical Hysteria.

Lone Nut Family Tree (Table of Contents: 41)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Duncan Eagleson (credited)
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Duncan Eagleson (credited)
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The Bloodline Secret (Table of Contents: 42)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Bob Smith (credited)
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Bob Smith (credited)
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Three Tentacles of Odessa (Table of Contents: 43)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Kevin O'Neill (credited)
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Kevin O'Neill (credited)
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The CIA / Nazi Axis (Table of Contents: 44)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Brett Ewins (credited)
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Brett Ewins (credited)
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Fractured Factoids II (Table of Contents: 45)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Greg LaRocque (credited)
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Greg LaRocque (credited)
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The Conspiracy Conspiracy (Table of Contents: 46)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Introduction to Chapter Seven: The Conspiracy Conspiracy.

The Casolaro Conspiracy Maze (Table of Contents: 47)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Andrew Wendel (credited)
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Andrew Wendel (credited)
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Further Adventures of the Octopus in Weirdland (Table of Contents: 48)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Stephen Blue (credited)
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Stephen Blue (credited)
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Cabal of Looming Doom (Table of Contents: 49)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Richard Piers Rayner (credited)
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Richard Piers Rayner (credited)
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The Aliens of Eden (Table of Contents: 50)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Sean Scoffield (credited)
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Sean Scoffield (credited)
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Fractured Factoids III (Table of Contents: 51)

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Doug Moench (credited)
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Harry Robins (credited as Harry S. Robins)
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Harry Robins (credited as Harry S. Robins)
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[Afterword] (Table of Contents: 52)

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Michael Avon Oeming (credited)
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Biographies (Table of Contents: 53)

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Short biographies on the writer and artists featured in the book.

Copyright Information (Table of Contents: 54)

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Bibliography (Table of Contents: 55)

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Table of Contents
  1. 1. The Big Book of Conspiracies
  2. 2. Table of Contents
  3. 3. Introduction
  4. 4. Publisher's Note
  5. 5. Foreword
  6. 6. Classic Conspiracies
  7. 7. Coincidence or Consequence?
  8. 8. The Ones That Got Away
  9. 9. Other Oswalds
  10. 10. The King Killers
  11. 11. Kennedy-King Connections
  12. 12. The RFK Conspiracy
  13. 13. Big Brother's Greatest Hits
  14. 14. Psychedelic CIA
  15. 15. Masking the Face of Mars
  16. 16. Brotherhood of the Magic Bullet
  17. 17. Jonestown Electric Kool-Aid Conspiracy Test
  18. 18. Jonestown's Ultra Fallout
  19. 19. Secret CIA Links
  20. 20. Choppers of the New World Order
  21. 21. Trouble in Weirdland
  22. 22. Saucer Sorcery
  23. 23. Moongate
  24. 24. No-Moon Gate
  25. 25. Bay of Bush Pigs
  26. 26. The Physicist and the Flying Saucers
  27. 27. Synchronspiracy!
  28. 28. Killing Castro
  29. 29. Paranoia Potpourri
  30. 30. The Cannabis Conspiracy
  31. 31. Conspiracy Quotes
  32. 32. The Sugar Daddy, the Stuttering Blonde, and the Silent Tramp
  33. 33. Fractured Factoids
  34. 34. Odd Passings and Other Assassinations
  35. 35. The Strange Death of Malcolm X
  36. 36. Come On, Baby, Douse My Fire
  37. 37. More Morrison Mojo
  38. 38. Peril in Plutonium
  39. 39. Gal Killin'
  40. 40. Historical Hysteria
  41. 41. Lone Nut Family Tree
  42. 42. The Bloodline Secret
  43. 43. Three Tentacles of Odessa
  44. 44. The CIA / Nazi Axis
  45. 45. Fractured Factoids II
  46. 46. The Conspiracy Conspiracy
  47. 47. The Casolaro Conspiracy Maze
  48. 48. Further Adventures of the Octopus in Weirdland
  49. 49. Cabal of Looming Doom
  50. 50. The Aliens of Eden
  51. 51. Fractured Factoids III
  52. 52. [Afterword]
  53. 53. Biographies
  54. 54. Copyright Information
  55. 55. Bibliography
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  • Jim Van Dore