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Issue: Itchy Planet #1
Publication Date: January 1988
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.40 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leonard Rifas
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: March 1988
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers, black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
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Crisis On Finite Earth

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
David Suter; Sir John Tenniel
David Suter; Sir John Tenniel
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Miscellaneous
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The "Alice in Wonderland" inset illustration is by Tenniel.
Itchy Planet no. 1 Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Reviews

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Miscellaneous
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Brief reviews of "Witty World," "La Semana Comica," "PAX," "World War 3 Illustrated," "Barefoot Gen" and "Real War Stories." Accompanied by four spot illustrations taken from the respective publications.
Survey - AIDS Comics

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Brief reviews of the following AIDS-related comics: "The AIDS Plague," "AIDS is Looking for You," "Andrea and Lisa," "Safer Sex Comics" and "The Works: Drugs, Sex & AIDS." Includes five sample panels from the respective publications.
Pa•ra•dox

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick
Subject Matter
Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan
Commentary on the paradoxes of having a nuclear arsenal as "deterrence."
Reprinting
FlagThe Best Comics of the Decade #2 published July 1990
as Pa•ra•dox [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Nuclear Winter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Leonard Rifas
Leonard Rifas (ink brush)
Leonard Rifas (ink brush)
Leonard Rifas
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Miscellaneous
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Love and Boundaries, or, How I Learned That I Cold Push the Button

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jerry Gold
Leonard Rifas
Leonard Rifas
typeset
Reprinting
from The Next War (text piece only)
Miscellaneous
3
Accompanied by five small illustrations.
Look out! It's the Nuclear Family

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Norman Dog ?; Larry Gonick ?
Norman Dog ?; Larry Gonick ?
Norman Dog ?; Larry Gonick ?
Norman Dog ?; Larry Gonick ?
Subject Matter
Debbie; Mom; Dad
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Miscellaneous
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Television

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Neil Postman
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Miscellaneous
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Text taken from Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985). Includes four spot illustrations.
Revival

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Michael Dougan
Michael Dougan
Michael Dougan
Michael Dougan
Subject Matter
biography
Michael Dougan; Mom; Sunday School Teacher
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Miscellaneous
4
U.S. Comic Books & Nuclear War

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Leonard Rifas
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Miscellaneous
5
The history of nuclear war depictions in comic books. Includes twenty-six small images taken from various comic book sources.

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