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Issue: Gay Comics #23 Age Restricted
Publication Date: January 1996
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagBob Ross
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Bob Ross
On Sale Date: 1996
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN:
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Price: $3.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Mature Readers
Content Items: 16 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Clones in a Clutch

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Subject Matter
Heartbreakers [Vector; Queenie; Pearl]
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Miscellaneous
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Title from the table of contents.
From the Editor

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
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GAY COMICS #23: Summer 1996

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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My Lover...My Clone!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Vector; Queenie; Pearl; Therese Sorenson
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Miscellaneous
8
The Kloseted Kid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Walter Ego
Professor; Bogie
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Miscellaneous
2
I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Blue Whale Inn
Robin; Nicky; Alex
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Miscellaneous
3
Personal Adventuring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Jon Macy Super Genius
Jon Macy; Roger; Jon's Friend; The Cabbie; Devilboy; Rodney; Ms. Construed; Paul; Joel
The search for a romantic partner through the personals.
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Miscellaneous
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Human Interaction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
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Miscellaneous
2
Four half-page strips.
Gay Comics Back Issues

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Offers various back issues of the title for sale from the publisher; issues #1-9 are all sold out. All other issues up until #21, as well as Gay Comics Special #1 was still available to order at the time this issue was published. The offer was not updated to include the previous issue, #22 and with the exception of removing #6, which presumably had sold out by this point, is nearly verbatim the same ad as included in #22.
Wanted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
The desire of an adopted person to know who one's real mother is.
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Miscellaneous
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Misconceptions

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, humorous, superhero
Pride
Pride [Dustyn]; Trent; Amanda; Del
Sentinel explains to his lover Trent why he needs to change his super hero code name. He picks "Pride" as his new name. Later, Trent is attacked.
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The real-life reason for the name change is because DC's original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, adopted the monicker Sentinel around the time this story was published.
The Lost Dolls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Steven's Comics
Mrs. Kabinski; Harold; Sabrina Wilkinson; Christopher Kanakis; Marcy; Jill; Ballerina Cossette; Kim; Travis Wise; Mrs. White; Harold's Mom; George; Travis's Dad; Mr. Kanakis; Tim
Harold took his sister's indian dolls to school but someone has stolen them. A look at parental dysfunction and its direct effect on children.
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Reprints strips featured in Steven's Comics #3.
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Title from the table of contents. The sequence is composed of eight half-page strips titled "Show and Tell," "The Stolen Dolls," "The Secret Fort," "The Saddest Thing," "Travis Wise," "The Car Show," "Darth Vader," "Sorry...."
Bitchy Butch Meets A Nice Guy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Bitchy Butch
Bitchy Butch; Jeff; Mark
Bitchy goes on a tirade in a lesbian cafe.
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FlagBitchy Butch: World's Angriest Dyke! #[nn] published May 1999
 
Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Queer Sir...
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Letters from Meroe Elahi and L. Videen were published in this issue's column. Also features a rundown of what aspiring comic creators can do to increase their chances of breaking into the business, in particular as a Gay Comics contributor.
Contributors (Table of Contents)

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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Bitchy Butch
Bitchy Butch; Jeff
Queer Symbolism
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Back cover. Title from the table of contents. The bottom of the page states "It's More Than a Lifestyle... It's an Attitude!"

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