Prime Cuts #1

(March 1987)

Fantagraphics, 1986 Series

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Price: 3.50 USD; 5.25 CAD
Pages: 68
Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly
On-sale Date: 1987
Publisher's Age Guidelines: Recommended for Mature Readers
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Brand: Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]

Editing: Gary Groth; Kim Thompson (consulting); Robert Fiore (contributing); Kim Fryer (contributing)

Issue Notes

1st printing: November 1986 ?. The print date year is missing in the indicia but the month is included.

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Alec Stevens (signed) (painting)
Inks: Alec Stevens (signed) (painting)
Colors: Alec Stevens (signed) (painting)

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Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Colors: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Dot; Dash

Synopsis

Dot and Dash go surfing

Reprints

from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.07.24)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Colors: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey Polly! Sharks!!

Genre

humor

Characters

Polly; Pa; Uncle

Synopsis

Pa is worried about sharks near the beach

Reprints

from Polly and her Pals Sunday (1927.7.24)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Synopsis: Table of contents plus a quote from Hans Magnus Enzensberger

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script: Gary Groth
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Continued several pages later

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: H. P. Lovecraft
Pencils: Alec Stevens
Inks: Alec Stevens
Letters: Alec Stevens

Genre: horror-suspense
Synopsis: An adaptation of the famous short story about a solitary man weary of darkness who is inexorably drawn to a castle tower.

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Gilbert Hernandez
Inks: Gilbert Hernandez
Letters: typeset

Synopsis: Production and indicia credits. Subscription offer for Prime Cuts with the following month's issue shown.

Aline 'n' Bob / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb (signed)
Pencils: Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb (signed)
Inks: Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb (signed)
Letters: Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb (signed)

Genre

biography

Characters

Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Synopsis

The problems with having an old refrigerator as a style item

Reprints

in The Complete Dirty Laundry Comics (Last Gasp, 1993 series) (June 1993)
in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #16 - The Mid-1980s: More Years of Valiant Struggle (July 2002)
in Need More Love A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications, 2007 series) (2007)
in Drawn Together (W. W. Norton, 2012 series) ([October] 2012)

Keywords

autobiography

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: Eddie Campbell
Pencils: Eddie Campbell
Inks: Eddie Campbell
Letters: Eddie Campbell

Genre: biography
Characters: Eddie Campbell; Georgette Maison; Dave Harwood
Synopsis: Love's obsession
Keywords: autobiography

Indexer Notes

Originally released in the UK as a self-published comic

Overheard At America's Lunch Counters / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Susan Catherine
Pencils: Susan Catherine
Inks: Susan Catherine
Letters: Susan Catherine

Genre: humor
Synopsis: Eleven quotations heard by the author while waitressing

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Kenneth Smith
Inks: Kenneth Smith

Indexer Notes

Accompanies a text story by R.A. Lafferty

text story / 7 pages (report information)

Script: R. A. Lafferty
Letters: typeset

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Dot; Dash

Synopsis

Dot and Dash chase a bird

Reprints

from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.06.19)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Ashur Perkins; Pa

Synopsis

Ashur invents flourescent slippers

Reprints

from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.06.19)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Dot; Dash

Synopsis

Dot and Dash meet a fox

Reprints

from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.07.17)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Polly; Pa; Bob

Synopsis

Pa goes on a fox hunt

Reprints

from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.07.17)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Dot; Dash

Synopsis

Dot and Dash are puzzled by a tortoise

Reprints

from Dot and Dash Sunday (1927.05.22)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Polly; Pa; Ashur

Synopsis

Ashur's cleaning fluid fails

Reprints

from Polly and Her Pals Sunday (1927.05.22)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Dori Seda
Pencils: Dori Seda
Inks: Dori Seda
Letters: Dori Seda

Genre

humor

Characters

Lina; Cathy; Frank Dunden; Lina's Partner

Synopsis

Frank is vilified by all the women in town

Reprints

in Dori Stories (Last Gasp, 1999 series) (1999)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: Richard Sala
Pencils: Richard Sala
Inks: Richard Sala
Letters: Richard Sala

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A journalist discovers a secret society

Reprints

in Hypnotic Tales (Kitchen Sink Press, 1992 series) (1992)
in Maniac Killer Strikes Again! (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (December 2003)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Johnny Legend
Pencils: Drew Friedman
Inks: Drew Friedman
Letters: Drew Friedman

Genre

humor

Characters

Tor Johnson; Tramp

Synopsis

Tor Johnson takes a trip to the country

Reprints

in Heavy Metal Magazine (Heavy Metal, 1977 series) #v11#2 (Summer 1987)
in Warts and All (Penguin, 1990 series) (1990)
in Warts and All (Fantagraphics, 1994 series) (March 1994)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Justin Green
Pencils: Justin Green
Inks: Justin Green
Letters: Justin Green

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A life saved by the ads in comics

Reprints

in Justin Green's Binky Brown Sampler (Last Gasp, 1995 series) (1995)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script: Gary Groth
Letters: typeset

Synopsis: Blurb for all the artists plus the conclusion of Gary Groth's intro.

Rory Randall / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script: Mitch Manzer
Pencils: Mitch Manzer
Inks: Mitch Manzer
Letters: Mitch Manzer

Genre: humor
Characters: Rory Randall; Cindy-Lou; Namron the Invincible; Will
Synopsis: Country singer Rory Randall engenders the wrath of a subterranean dictator

Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Gustave Flaubert
Pencils: Rick Geary
Inks: Rick Geary
Letters: Rick Geary

First Line of Dialogue or Text: ABELARD: No need to have any idea of his philosophy, nor even to know the titles of his works.
Genre: humor

Indexer Notes

Illustration of one of Flaubert's pithy sayings from The Dictionary of Received Ideas. From "Abelard" to "Authors."

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Colors: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Dot; Dash

Synopsis

Dot and Dash find a box

Reprints

from Dot and Dash Sumday (1927.03.06)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Script: Cliff Sterrett
Pencils: Cliff Sterrett
Inks: Cliff Sterrett
Colors: Cliff Sterrett
Letters: Cliff Sterrett

Genre

humor

Characters

Pa; Polly

Synopsis

Pa goes hunting

Reprints

from Polly and Her Pals Sumday (1927.03.06)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
1. [no title indexed]
Dot and Dash
2. ["Hey Polly! Sharks!!"]
Polly and Her Pals
3. Prime Cuts Words & Pictures
4. Introduction
5. The Outsider
6. [no title indexed]
7. Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators
Aline 'n' Bob
8. Blues
9. Overheard At America's Lunch Counters
Overheard At America's Lunch Counters
10. [Portrait]
11. Mr. Hamadryad
12. Reality. Fantasy. and Everything in Between
13. [no title indexed]
Dot and Dash
14. [no title indexed]
Polly and Her Pals
15. [no title indexed]
Dot and Dash
16. [no title indexed]
Polly and Her Pals
17. [no title indexed]
Dot and Dash
18. [no title indexed]
Polly and Her Pals
19. The Confidante
20. The Thirteen Fingers
21. Tor Johnson in the Country
22. Hero of the Beach Revisited
23. Contributors
24. Treasure of the Lost Empire Chapter One
Rory Randall
25. ["ABELARD: No need to have any idea of his philosophy, nor even to know the titles of his works."]
Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas
26. [no title indexed]
Dot and Dash
27. [no title indexed]
Polly and Her Pals
28. [no title indexed]

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Peter Croome
Gregory Fischer
Tony R. Rose
Steven Samuels
Jim Van Dore

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Prime Cuts #1 (March 1987)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

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

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Prime Cuts Words & Pictures (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Introduction (Table of Contents: 4)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Outsider (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators (Table of Contents: 7)

Aline 'n' Bob / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Blues (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Overheard At America's Lunch Counters (Table of Contents: 9)

Overheard At America's Lunch Counters / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

[Portrait] (Table of Contents: 10)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

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Mr. Hamadryad (Table of Contents: 11)

text story / 7 pages (report information)

Reality. Fantasy. and Everything in Between (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

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

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

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

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

The Confidante (Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

The Thirteen Fingers (Table of Contents: 20)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Tor Johnson in the Country (Table of Contents: 21)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Hero of the Beach Revisited (Table of Contents: 22)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Contributors (Table of Contents: 23)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Treasure of the Lost Empire Chapter One (Table of Contents: 24)

Rory Randall / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 25)

Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas / text story / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 26)

Dot and Dash / comic story / 0.34 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 27)

Polly and Her Pals / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 28) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Prime Cuts #1

(March 1987)