Volume: 2
Price: 14.95 USD; 19.95 CAD; 8.99 GBP
Pages: 192
On-sale Date: 1990-05-15
Editing: Art Spiegelman; Françoise Mouly; Robert Sikoryak (associate)
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Required Reading for the Post-Literate
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

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?
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typeset

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 3 pages

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?
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typeset

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title page, production credits, indicia and a illustration; table of contents with brief creator blurbs; a list of other Raw publications

Sneaking Out
(Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages

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Letters:
  • Genre:biography
Reprints (1)

The Basket Case
(Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 24 pages

Script:
Robert Legault (translator)
Kim Thompson (translator)
Françoise Mouly (credited as F. M.) (translator)
Art Spiegelman (credited as A. S.) (translator)
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Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

a.k.a. "La bascule à Charlot"

This Little Piggy Went to Market
(Table of Contents: 4)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Sue Coe (painting)
Inks:
Sue Coe (painting)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction; advocacy

Indexer Notes

A single painting accompanies this intro

This Little Piggy Went to Market
(Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 15 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Sue Coe (painting)
Inks:
Sue Coe (painting)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:advocacy

Indexer Notes

sixteen illustrations accompany the article

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Midsummer Day Dreams / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This is the first time I got into this car when it wasn't crowded..
Reprints (0)
  • from ? (1912)

Collect Yourself
(Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Jerry Moriarty (painting)
Inks:
Jerry Moriarty (painting)
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

"A Visual Crime - Number 7." The story is accompanied by a single painting.

He Had a Funny Face
(Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor
Reprints (2)

The Road to Rana Poona
(Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 9 pages

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?
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Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

The story is in black & white except for the top part of the final page

Sweet
(Table of Contents: 10)

Jopo de pojo / comic story / 4 pages

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Colors:
Supermarc Zanzibar (color assist)
Letters:
  • Genre:humor

The 7 Seas of Sin
(Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 6 pages

Script:
David Sandlin (credited as D. Sandlin)
Pencils:
David Sandlin (credited as D. Sandlin)
Inks:
David Sandlin (credited as D. Sandlin)
Colors:
David Sandlin (credited as D. Sandlin)
Letters:
David Sandlin (credited as D. Sandlin)

Waking up Blind
(Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 4 pages

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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Cowboy Henk / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
Anton van Dalen (translator)
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Colors:
Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. S.)
Letters:
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Excuse me, ma'am, may I come in to wind up my watch?

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 14)

Cowboy Henk / comic story / 0.2 page

Script:
Anton van Dalen (translator)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. S.)
Letters:
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ten steaks, please...

Oba's Electroplate Factory
(Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 24 pages

Script:
佐竹晃 (Akira Satake) (translator)
Paul Karasik (translator)
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Characters:
Oba
Reprints (0)
  • from Manga Story (April 1973) ?

Indexer Notes

a.k.a. ”Oba denki mekki Kôgyôsho”

The Ultimate Debt
(Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 2 pages

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Outside Out
(Table of Contents: 17)

comic story / 6 pages

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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 18)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Boody Rogers (signed)
Inks:
Boody Rogers (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Where to, Babe?
Characters:
Babe
Reprints (1)

The Mysterious Case of Mystery Mountain!
(Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 15 pages

Script:
Eric Stanton (plot idea)
Pencils:
Eric Stanton (art assist)
Inks:
Eric Stanton (art assist)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
Reprints (1)

From Maracaibo
(Table of Contents: 20)

comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Eduardo Kaplan (translated)
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Letters:

Maus Chapter Nine: ...And Here My Troubles Began...
(Table of Contents: 21)

recap / 2 pages

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?
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typeset
Reprints (1)

Maus Chapter Nine: ...And Here My Troubles Began...
(Table of Contents: 22)

comic story / 24 pages

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Reprints (3)

The Child Slave Rebellion
(Table of Contents: 23)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Henry Darger (painting)
Inks:
Henry Darger (painting)
Colors:
Henry Darger (painting)
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Includes a single painting

The History of My Life
(Table of Contents: 24)

text story / 11 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Henry Darger (painting)
Inks:
Henry Darger (painting)
Colors:
Henry Darger (painting)
Letters:
Henry Darger (painting)

Indexer Notes

Excerpts from the first hundred pages of his autobiography. Four stunning Darger paintings accompany his handwritten text. The middle two pages are gatefolds.

I Fell Asleep Waiting for Her
(Table of Contents: 25)

comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Jayr Pulga (credited as J. Pulga)
Pencils:
Jayr Pulga (credited as J. Pulga)
Inks:
Jayr Pulga (credited as J. Pulga)
Letters:
Jayr Pulga (credited as J. Pulga)

Good ol' Gregor Brown
(Table of Contents: 26)

comic story / 2 pages

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Characters:
Gregor Brown; Manager; Grete; The Maid
Synopsis:
The artist answers the question "What do you get when you cross "Peanuts” with Franz Kafka?"
Reprints (3)

The Corner Location
(Table of Contents: 27)

comic story / 6 pages

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Reality
(Table of Contents: 28)

comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Robert Legault (translator)
Eduardo Kaplan (translator)
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Inks:
Letters:

The Thinkers
(Table of Contents: 29)

illustration / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
Reprints (1)

The Smell of Shallow Graves
(Table of Contents: 30)

comic story / 1 page

Script:
Charles Burns (credited as Burns)
Pencils:
Charles Burns (credited as Burns)
Inks:
Charles Burns (credited as Burns)
Colors:
Charles Burns (credited as Burns)
Letters:
Charles Burns (credited as Burns)

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 31)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Required Reading for the Post-Literate
  2. [no title indexed]
  3. Sneaking Out
  4. The Basket Case
  5. This Little Piggy Went to Market
  6. This Little Piggy Went to Market
  7. ["This is the first time I got into this car when it wasn't crowded.."]
    Midsummer Day Dreams
  8. Collect Yourself
  9. He Had a Funny Face
  10. The Road to Rana Poona
  11. Sweet
    Jopo de pojo
  12. The 7 Seas of Sin
  13. Waking up Blind
  14. ["Excuse me, ma'am, may I come in to wind up my watch?"]
    Cowboy Henk
  15. ["Ten steaks, please..."]
    Cowboy Henk
  16. Oba's Electroplate Factory
  17. The Ultimate Debt
  18. Outside Out
  19. ["Where to, Babe?"]
  20. The Mysterious Case of Mystery Mountain!
  21. From Maracaibo
  22. Maus Chapter Nine: ...And Here My Troubles Began...
  23. Maus Chapter Nine: ...And Here My Troubles Began...
  24. The Child Slave Rebellion
  25. The History of My Life
  26. I Fell Asleep Waiting for Her
  27. Good ol' Gregor Brown
  28. The Corner Location
  29. Reality
  30. The Thinkers
  31. The Smell of Shallow Graves
  32. [no title indexed]
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