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Issue: The Tick #3
Publication Date: April 1990
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Issues: #3 of 13 Issues (56 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagNew England Comics
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Pages: 36
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Price: $2.25 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): George Suarez
Disclose Notes: Comic went through 6 printings; 2nd Nov. 1989 $2.25 price; 3rd April 1990 $2.25 price; 4th July 1991 $2.75 price; 5th Aug. 1993 $2.75 price; 6th Mar. 1998 $2.95 price; Each individual printing added a different colored border and the tag "Encore Presentation!" to the original cover art. First three printings of the comic contain an 8 page brochure stapled in for Ninja World.
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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; Oedipus; Ninjas
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Pages: 1
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Night of a Million-Zillion Ninja

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus [Oedipus Ashley Stevens]; Reginald Stevens; Amanda Stevens; Shing (Flashback); Ninjas; The District Manager
Synopsis: Tick tries to help Oedipus keep the Thorn of Oblivion out of the hands of a horde of Ninja (even though she stole it from them in the first place), but they get trapped in Oedipus' house and forced to attend her parent's dinner party.
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Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: Oedipus is a parody of Marvel's Elektra. Tick quick quip of the month: "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them..."
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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): Arthur
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Pages: 1

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