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Issue: Best of Witzend #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2018
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 2018
Volume:
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781683961154
UPC/EAN: 978168396115464999
Price: $49.99 USD
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Content Items: 80 (34 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black & white
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Binding: hardcover
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[untitled]

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Crandall - ERB Part II

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A Reed Crandall ERB Portfolio

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Disclose Notes: 4 full-page and one half-page illustrations for Edgar Rice Burroughs stories, with brief introduction.
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Best of Witzend

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Contents

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Introduction

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Savage World

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Disclose Notes: Originally prepared for Lev Gleason's The Adventures of Buster Crabbe before the company went out of business. Rewritten by Wally Wood for Witzend.
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Sinner

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Animan

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Animan

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Midnight Special

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Orion

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Poetry by Ralph Reese

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First Line: Fools will tell you that there can be no honest person!
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[untitled]

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Lew Baggot; Roden; Icer; Krebs; Max; Purity; Lt. Brasher
First Line: Justice demands that man's principles be fixed...
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Disclose Notes: In "The Ditko Collection" this story is titled "Mr. A: Money."
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Art Spiegelman Department

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The Invaders

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Pipsqueak Papers

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Pipsqueak Papers

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Last Chance

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Disclose Notes: The artwork was done in the 1950s but was unpublished. It has been rearranged and relettered here with a new script.
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The Rejects

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Reed Crandall Portfolio of Edgar Rice Burroughs Part Four

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The Junkwaffel Invasion of Kruppenny Island

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Prevue: The Adventures of Talon

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Alien

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[untitled]

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Cobalt 60

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Feature(s): Limpstrel
First Line: I can't see why you're distraught...
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The Journey

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Disclose Notes: Credited to Betty and Gray Morrow.
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The City in the Sea

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Disclose Notes: A series of Frazetta illustrations from an aborted project, accompanying the Poe poem.
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The Hunting of the Snark

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Lost in a Dream

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Kym
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Disclose Notes: wordless (no dialog or captions)
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39-74

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Disclose Notes: Originally intended for Marvel's "Comix Book #1." It was rejected by Stan Lee.
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[untitled]

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Genres: crime
First Line: On March 17, 1969 I awoke at 8 A.M...
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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The Avenging Dodo

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[untitled]

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My Furry World... And Welcome To It!

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The Care and Feeding of Geks

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Booby Trap

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Stargazer

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The Real World

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Last Act of a Living Legend

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Disclose Notes: According to notes by Bill Pearson, this story was originally slated for Witzend #14. However, a fire destroyed everything slated for that issue. Stiles and Pearson worked from copies of the artwork to bring it back to life.
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An Idea in Any Form

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Synopsis: Article about Witzend contributors, including short biographical comments.
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Bucky Ruckus

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Feature(s): Bucky Ruckus
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Disclose Notes: Montage of Bucky Ruckus images from Witzend.
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A Reed Crandall ERB Portfolio

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Disclose Notes: 4 full-page and one half-page illustrations for Edgar Rice Burroughs stories, with brief introduction.
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Witzend, Beginning to End

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Synopsis: Memoir by Pearson about his work on Witzend.
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The World of the Wizard King

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An Oral History

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Synopsis: Oral history of Witzend.
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Wallace Wood 1927-1981

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Contributors

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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Assemblage of panels. Wood portraits of Animan, Bucky Ruckus, and Snorky, plus bits by other artists excerpted from work in this issue.
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Petunia Pig
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Illustration from original back cover. Credits from Witzend vol. II (Fantagraphics, 2014).
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The W. C. Fields Book

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W.C. Fields as a Police Officer

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Disclose Notes: Reprinted in reduced form as a quarter-page illustration. Original back cover of Witzend #9.
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Kym
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[untitled]

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McLeod nude with lion

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A Reed Crandall ERB Portfolio

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Disclose Notes: 4 full-page and one half-page illustrations for Edgar Rice Burroughs stories, with brief introduction.
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A Reed Crandall ERB Portfolio

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Crandall - ERB Part II

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Cartoonists Unite!

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