(1985)
Harvey Pekar,
1976 Series
- Volume
- [1]
- Price
- 3.00 USD
- Pages
- 60
- On-sale Date
- 1985-06-19
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Pekar
- Editing
- Harvey Pekar (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date (shipping) from the Public Catalog of the U.S. Copyright Office, Registration Number TX0001613828.
[no title indexed]
American Splendor / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Joyce Brabner
- Keywords
- autobiography
Domestic Appliances
American Splendor / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Doctor
- Synopsis
- Harvey discusses his problems with washing dishes.
- Keywords
- autobiography
The Bird Man
American Splendor / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- The Bird Man
- Synopsis
- A guy is selling wind-up birds at the Coventry Street fair.
Double Feature part 1: Footloose
American Splendor / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Toby Radloff
- Synopsis
- Harvey and Toby get into work early and discuss the movie Footloose.
- Reprints
-
in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) ([September] 1991)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Double Feature part 2: Revenge Of The Nerds
American Splendor / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Toby Radloff
- Synopsis
- Toby made a round trip of 260 miles to ensure he caught the movie Revenge Of The Nerds.
- Reprints
- in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) ([September] 1991)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Inner City Flea Market
American Splendor / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Record dealer; Pushy customers
- Synopsis
- Harvey witnesses an altercation at the flea market.
- Keywords
- autobiography
Today At Work, I...
American Splendor / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Doctor
- Synopsis
- Harvey finagles another donut from a doctor while telling him about how a magazine interviewer interpreted his doing so.
- Keywords
- autobiography
A Marriage Album
American Splendor / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Herschel; Joyce Brabner; Maxine; Charlie
- Synopsis
- Harvey and Joyce relate how a correspondence blossomed into a relationship
- Reprints
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Herschel is Harvey Pekar.
The Bear
American Splendor / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Joyce Brabner; Policeman
- Synopsis
- Harvey has a bad day.
- Keywords
- autobiography
Obsessive-Compulsive (Lost Glasses)
American Splendor / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Joyce Brabner
- Synopsis
- Harvey was wearing his glasses when he came in, but can't find them now.
- Reprints
- in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) ([September] 1991)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Violence
American Splendor / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Joyce Brabner
- Synopsis
- Harvey's experiences with violence from teenage days to present, and a recent mugging.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- autobiography
The Glory That Was Cleveland
American Splendor / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- A view of the Flats from what's left of the Clark Avenue Bridge.
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
This page is produced in a landscape rather than portrait format.
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Table of Contents
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American Splendor -
1.
Domestic Appliances
American Splendor -
2.
The Bird Man
American Splendor -
3.
Double Feature part 1: Footloose
American Splendor -
4.
Double Feature part 2: Revenge Of The Nerds
American Splendor -
5.
Inner City Flea Market
American Splendor -
6.
Today At Work, I...
American Splendor -
7.
A Marriage Album
American Splendor -
8.
The Bear
American Splendor -
9.
Obsessive-Compulsive (Lost Glasses)
American Splendor -
10.
Violence
American Splendor -
11.
The Glory That Was Cleveland
American Splendor -
12.
The Ridge
American Splendor
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