Eightball
#3
[Second Printing]
(August 1991)
Fantagraphics,
1989 Series
- Price
- 2.50 USD; 2.95 CAD
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- published thrice yearly
- On-sale Date
- 1991
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Mature Readers
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
- ?
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #3.
There exist further variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #3 [Second Printing]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/829/w200/829441.jpg?-1975798679698333275)
![Cover Thumbnail for Eightball (1989 series) #3 [Third Printing]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1667/w100/1667971.jpg?-2948368805909298984)
![Cover Thumbnail for Eightball (1989 series) #3 [Fourth Printing]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1494/w100/1494337.jpg?-206124979462520360)
![Cover Thumbnail for Eightball (1989 series) #3 [Fifth Printing]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1667/w100/1667979.jpg?-6745278185875043191)
Pastor Robert Tilton
The Eightball Profile / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Robert Tilton
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text and illustration feature about a sleazy TV evangelist
Part Three
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron / comic story / 11 pages
- Characters
- Clay Loudermilk; Tina Muskegon; Kitty Muskegon
- Synopsis
- Clay stays with the part-fish Tina and her mother
- Reprints
-
in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) (May 1993) which is reprinted -
in Wie ein samtener Handschuh in eisernen Fesseln (Reprodukt, 1994 series) (November 1993) - in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #[nn] (May 1993)
- in Wie ein samtener Handschuh in eisernen Fesseln (Reprodukt, 2011 series) (1994)
- in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 1998 series) #[nn] (December 1998) which is reprinted
-
in 鉄で造ったベルベットの手袋のように [Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron] (Presspop Inc., 2005 ? series) (2005) - in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 2017 series) (2017)
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in Novela Gráfica 2019 (Levoir, 2019 series) #9 - Como uma Luva de Veludo Forjada em Ferro (2019) - in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
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The Stroll
comic story / 5 pages
- Characters
- Toupée Guy; Lisa
- Synopsis
- A person walks home and relfects on the people and incidents they observe
- Reprints
- in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) (October 1991)
- in Twentieth Century Eightball (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) ([2002])
- in The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (Harry N. Abrams, 2012 series) ([April] 2012)
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
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The Young Manhood Of Dan Pussey
Dan Pussey / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Dan Pussey; Doctor Infinity; Ms. Phalier; Gummo Bubbleman; Larry Anger
- Synopsis
- Dan Pussey tries to broaden his work
- Reprints
- in Pussey! (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (July 1995)
- in Pussey! (Fantagraphics, 2006 series) (July 2006)
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
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Indexer Notes
Alternately titled 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pussey'. Gummo Bubbleman is a caricature of Art Spiegelman, and Larry Anger is a caricature of Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth.
Postal Intercourse
letters page / 0.4 page
- Synopsis
- Letters section and a "plug corner" promoting the album "Split" by Victor Banana
- Reprints
Prank Phone Call Contest Final Results
text article / 0.6 page
- Synopsis
- Announcing the winner of the contest; small promo for other Clowes books.
- Reprints
What Can Robots Do?
Duplex Planet / comic story / 1 page
- Reprints
- in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) (October 1991)
- in No More Shaves (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (January 2003)
- in The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1 - Issues 1-10 ([June] 2015)
- from Duplex Planet (David Greenberger, 1979 series) #?
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- Keywords
- Question
Indexer Notes
Adapts answers given by people in an old folks home and originally published in Duplex Planet. This is the back cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
Pastor Robert Tilton
The Eightball Profile -
2.
Part Three
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron -
3.
The Stroll
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4.
The Young Manhood Of Dan Pussey
Dan Pussey -
5.
Postal Intercourse
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6.
Prank Phone Call Contest Final Results
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7.
What Can Robots Do?
Duplex Planet
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