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Issue: The Tick #8 [1st Printing]
Publication Date: July 1990
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Issues: #8 [1st Printing] of 13 Issues (56 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Variant No Logo Cover
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Publisher: FlagNew England Comics
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.00 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): George Suarez (publisher); Bill Devine (Managing Editor); Bob Polio (Art Director)
Disclose Notes: Comic has at least 3 printings but only the 1st has an 8 page "Red Eye" comic insert, and is indexed here. 2nd and later printings are indexed under #8 [later printings].

The "No Logo" Variant is a first printing and contains the 8 page "Red Eye" comic insert. All cover text and logos are left off the cover except for the box explaining the 8 page "Red Eye" comic insert. West coast distributor "Destiny Distributors" included a note to the retailers explaining that the issue was a misprint affecting approximately 5% to 8% of the print run. This note also stated that the new suggested retail price was $3, rather than 2.25, although the issue itself does not display a price.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: First printing also has a variant cover with no price or company logo.
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Tick
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Tick illustration, indicia and credit information.
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A Matter of Cosmic Import...And Other Stories...

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Man-Eating Cow; Red Eye; Dr. Edward Robelord; Dot; Two Goons (villains)
Synopsis: The Tick is struck on the head with what looks to be a meteor but turns out to be sediment from Utah. Arthur and Tick have dinner with Art's sister, but their repast is interrupted by two goons shooting at them. After Man-Eating Cow lends a...uh...an udder in dispatching the villains, Tick decides that he and Arthur will leave for New York to fight real crime and leave their bovine companion to patrol The City in their stead. Tick reads.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
Disclose Notes: Tick Quick Quip of the Month: "Hey, don't knock crazy. The Romans were crazy, and they got all the girls."
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Red Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: 8-page comic insert, included only in first printings.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tick Talk
Synopsis: Letters page contains an excerpt of a letter by crazed Tick fan Sam Ismail requesting an "uncut" copy of The Tick #2 and punctuated by 83 hand written pages of the word "Please".
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Tick Mart
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Back Cover

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Chainsaw Vigilante
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Pages: 1

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