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Issue: Colin Upton's Big Black Thing #1
Publication Date: January 1994
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagStarhead Comix
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 28
ISBN:
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Price: $2.50 USD
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Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Gregory; Colin Upton
Disclose Notes: Compilation of the self-published work of Colin Upton selected by Editor Roberta Gregory.

Colin Upton discovered the small press comics movement during the 1980s, an anarchic sub-culture of cartoonists who happily rejected the need for publishers or editors to create and distribute their comics themselves. Much of this issue was produced as a small mini-comics (small, cheap photocopied 8 - 12 page pamphlets) and sent through the mail as a major method of distribution for trade or sale.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: One-Shot
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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The Big Black Thing of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton; Dennis Eichhorn
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Colin Upton; Dennis Eichhorn
Synopsis: Satire on Upton's self-published endeavor.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Famous Bus Rides #2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Homophobic grannies and an old man raging against the filthy, longhaired, scummy young people.
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From Issue: FlagFamous Bus Rides #2 published ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Real Rubbie #6

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A panhandler tries to bum money so he can get back to prison for the weekend.
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From Issue: FlagReal Rubbie #6 published ?
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Pages: 2
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Self-Indulgent Comics #10

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Mysterious appearance of foreign coins in the apartment of Colin Upton and possible explanations.
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From Content Item: FlagSelf-Indulgent Comics #10 published January 1988
was The horror all started one sunny day during spring cleaning... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Hotxha the Albanian Part one and two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): Hotxha
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From Issue: FlagHotxha the Albanian #[nn] published January 1990
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Happy Hater #3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Happy appears on a late night talk show, confusion and chaos ensues.
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From Issue: FlagThe Happy Hater #3 published ?
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Pages: 2
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Self-Indulgent Comics #3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Synopsis: The horrible dark secrets of the doomed Eccleheart clan revealed.
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From Issue: FlagSelf-Indulgent Comics #3 published ?
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Pages: 2
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Happy Ned and his Rabbit Spot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Happy Ned cheerfully spreads the good word with a good deed and a smile. Or automatic weapons fire if that doesn't work. This dark humoured satire foreshadowed the violence of the religious right years before it was fashionable.
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Reprint Notes: from Happy Ned (Colin Upton, 1985 series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Tales of the Terrible Teatotaler #1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Nauseating true tale of competitive vomiting amongst the denizens of the Terrible House of Sickness, an East Vancouver home famous for it's substance abuse.
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From Issue: FlagTales of the Terrible Teatotaler #1 published January 1987
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Pages: 2
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Socialist Turtle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Synopsis: In this funny animal political satire, Socialist Turtle is a Stalinist with a thin shell, battling for control of a featureless plain against capitalists, Trotsykites and class traitors. Inspired by infighting amongst various communist factions in the eighties, in particular the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.
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Reprint Notes: from Collected Socialist Turtle, The (Colin Upton, 1985 series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Colin Upton Comics Big Things

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement promoting back issues of Upton's self-published work. Upton purchased much of the back stock of Big Thing and is now offering this back stock for sale.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Colin Upton
Penciller(s): Colin Upton
Inker(s): Colin Upton
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Colin Upton
Subject Matter
Synopsis: `
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover is black with a small white circle in the middle of the page containing a cat by the name of Sam Hitler with the facial features of Adolph Hitler. With his right paw in the air, the cat is saying: Dis Comix is Gut.

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