Passionella and Other Stories
#[nn] (20368)
([April 2] 1959)
- Price
- 1.75 USD
- Pages
- 164
- On-sale Date
- 1959-04-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc.
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- black and white; spot color on cover
- Dimensions
- 5.5” × 8”
- Binding
- trade paperback
Issue Notes
The number 20368 shows up on the back cover.
On sale and publication dates are from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 13, Part 1, Number 1, Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals, January-June 1959. Class A book. Copyright number A385189.
Could be considered an early Graphic Novel, as it is comics material created to be published in a book format. Some of the content did appear in magazines earlier, but that content has been significantly revised for book publication.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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A word from John Crosby
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
The lowercase w in the title "A word from John Crosby" is recorded as it appears in print in this title.
Passionella
comic story / 50 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- in Passionella and Other Stories (New American Library, 1964 series) #P2544 (November 1964)
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Indexer Notes
From the copyright page: “The story ‘Passionella’ first appeared in Pageant, but was completely revised and redrawn for this book.”
Letters credit is based on the popular wisdom that, before the advent of desktop publishing software, Feiffer lettered his own cartooning work.
Munro
comic story / 52 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- in Passionella and Other Stories (New American Library, 1964 series) #P2544 (November 1964)
- in Feiffer's Children (Andrews McMeel, 1986 series) (1986)
- in Feiffer The Collected Works (Fantagraphics, 1988 series) #2 - Munro (October 1989)
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Indexer Notes
Letters credit is based on the popular wisdom that, before the advent of desktop publishing software, Feiffer lettered his own cartooning work.
George’s Moon
comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- in Passionella and Other Stories (New American Library, 1964 series) #P2544 (November 1964)
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Indexer Notes
Letters credit is based on the popular wisdom that, before the advent of desktop publishing software, Feiffer lettered his own cartooning work.
Boom!
comic story / 22 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- in Passionella and Other Stories (New American Library, 1964 series) #P2544 (November 1964)
- from The Village Voice (The Village Voice, Inc. 1955 series) 195X-XX-XX
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Indexer Notes
From the copyright page: “The story ‘Boom’ first appeared in The Village Voice.”
Letters credit is based on the popular wisdom that, before the advent of desktop publishing software, Feiffer lettered his own cartooning work.
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[no title indexed]
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A word from John Crosby
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Passionella
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3.
Munro
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4.
George’s Moon
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Boom!
- David B
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Clint Maxwell
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