(1984)
David Boswell,
1984 Series
Published in English
(Canada)
- Price
- 2.50 CAD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- David Boswell
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- Color Cover, Black & White Interior
- Dimensions
- 8" x 10" (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- One Shot
Issue Notes
This is the first edition. Later published by Eclipse and Boswell's "Deep Sea Comics" imprint.
[no title indexed]
Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Laszlo, you chump, wake up! Constance just came in with another guy!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Laszlo; Reid Fleming
- Reprints
-
in Heartbreak Comics (Eclipse, 1988 series) (May 1988) - in Heart Break Comics (Deep-Sea Comics, 1997 series) #1 (February 1997)
- in Reid Fleming: World's Toughest Milkman (IDW, 2010 series) #[1] (December 2010)
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Heart Break Comics
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / ? pages
- Characters
- David Boswell (photo); Laszlo; Constance; Ken; Lena Fleming; Reid Fleming
- Synopsis
- Brief introduction by creator Boswell concerning the origin of the Heartbreak Comics story. Page also features character art and indicia information.
- Reprints
- in Reid Fleming: World's Toughest Milkman (IDW, 2010 series) #[1] (December 2010)
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Indexer Notes
Inside front cover intro dated October 1984. Accompanied by the sequence shown just below. Both are on the same page.
Heart Break Comics No. 1
comic story / ? pages
- Script
- David Boswell (signed)
- Pencils
- David Boswell (signed)
- Inks
- David Boswell (signed)
- Letters
- David Boswell (signed)
- Characters
- Laszlo; Lena
- Reprints
- in Heart Break Comics (Deep-Sea Comics, 1997 series) #1 (February 1997)
- in Reid Fleming: World's Toughest Milkman (IDW, 2010 series) #[1] (December 2010)
- from Georgia Straight #504 (July 14, 1977)
- in Heartbreak Comics (Eclipse, 1988 series) #[nn] ?
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Indexer Notes
A half-page size reproduction of Boswell's first weekly strip. On the same page as the "Author's Note" sequence shown above.
Heartbreak Comics
Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman / comic story / 41 pages
- Genre
- humour
- Synopsis
- From the Reid Fleming website: "What kind of a man fools around with the wife of the World's Toughest Milkman? Laszlo, Great "Slavic" Lover, that's who!
Risking grave danger at the hands of Reid Fleming, Laszlo pursues the affair ardently - until the day he meets Constance - The Woman of His Dreams! An Epic Tale of Perfidy, Lust, Woe, and Chickens Coming Home to Roost." [http://www.reidfleming.com/heartbreak.html, accessed 12/10/07] - Reprints
- in Heartbreak Comics (Eclipse, 1988 series) (May 1988)
- in Heart Break Comics (Deep-Sea Comics, 1997 series) #1 (February 1997)
- in Reid Fleming: World's Toughest Milkman (IDW, 2010 series) #[1] (December 2010)
-
Indexer Notes
A new version of the Heart Break Comics strip that first appeared in Vancouver's Georgia Straight newspaper in 1977. The artist notes in the intro that some ideas and scenes are used from the original but the drawings are brand new.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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["Laszlo, you chump, wake up! Constance just came in with another guy!"]
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Heart Break Comics
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Heart Break Comics No. 1
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Heartbreak Comics
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Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman
Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman
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- Christopher Day
- Jim Ordolis
- Steven Samuels
- Ramon Schenk
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