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Issue: Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables #1

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Publication Date: October 1993

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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Dark Horse

Brand: Dark Horse Comics [facing left]

Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $3.15 CAD
$2.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): John Weeks

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color cover; Black and White interior

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.

Paper Stock:

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: collected edition

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front Only (of Wraparound and/or Gatefold)

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Title Page

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Cover, Wraparound

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Title Page

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Content Items (9 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Wraparound

Credits

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Colorist(s): Chris Chalenor

Letterer(s): ?

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from ?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Wrap-around cover.

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from ?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside cover illustration.

Meteor Morgan

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Basil Wolverton

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Letterer(s): Basil Wolverton

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Meteor Morgan

Character(s): Meteor Morgan; Jolok

Synopsis: Meteor Morgan and Jolok fight Martian thieves who want to steal the mail on a rocket from Mars to Earth.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: "This circa 1939 Meteor Man episode was never continued so far as anyone knows, these six pages apparently being the only survivors of an unsold series. From the Glenn Bray collection."

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Basil Wolverton

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Letterer(s): Basil Wolverton

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Spacehawk

Character(s): Spacehawk

First Line: This sensitive device to pick up telephone messages...

Synopsis: Spacehawk prevents a "enemy" ship carrying midget submarines from sinking an American ship carrying a cargo of Red Cross supplies.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Target Comics v2 #5 [17] published July 1941
was The Submarine Attack [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Story from 1940 or 1941, before the United State entered the war in Europe. Un-named enemy's insignia is a stylized swastika.

Biographically Basil

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Spicer; Basil Wolverton

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Reprinted excerpt of the Wolverton interview from Graphic Story Magazine #14 (Winter 1971-72) along with a few paragraphs by Spicer. Includes an illustration by Wolverton from his Apocalypse series.

The End of the World

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: Artwork from Wolverton's classic Apocalypse series, a series of illustrations depicting the biblical end of the world. Done either at the request of or with the assistance of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Basil Wolverton

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Letterer(s): Basil Wolverton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science fiction

Feature(s): Jumpin' Jupiter

Character(s): Jumpin' Jupiter; Royal High Oof

First Line: I'm headin' for the void, Floyd!

Synopsis: Jumpin' Jupiter lands on a planet where it is forbidden to laugh.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Weird Tales of the Future (Key Publications, 1952 series) #?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Rocket Rider and His Interplanetary Ferry

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Basil Wolverton

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Letterer(s): Basil Wolverton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science fiction

Feature(s): Rocket Rider

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: First page only of a story "possibly planned for one of the numerous 1950s cartoon and photo girly mags." "..unknown to us if the story was ever finished or not."

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. "..an example of Wolverton's early '30s pulp art, drawn in a Hugo Gernsbackian Amazing Stories mode and probably never published at that time."