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Issue: Faust #1
Publication Date: January 1989
 
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Is Variant Variant: Limited Premiere Edition
Rating: Adult Reading
Publisher: FlagNorthstar
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Indicia Publisher: Northstar Publishing
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
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Price: $2.75 CAD
$2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Adult Reading
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Premiere Edition with poster. Limited to 2,000 copies. 1,000 copies signed and numbered.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Act 1: Love of the Damned

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
adult, horror, superhero
Faust
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Decapitated head cover, perhaps an homage to the 1950's horror comics from publisher William Gaines.
Editorial

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Interior front cover editorial with indicia.
A Letter from the Writer

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
Faust: Birth of a Psycho-Hero
Quinn discusses how this Faust character demands a point-of-view perspective not often seen in comics.
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Papa's Got A Brand New Bag!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
James Brown (credited)
Scott France (credited, additional paste-ups)
Tom Brunton (credited, additional inks)
Kim Richerson (credited)
Subject Matter
adult, horror, superhero
Beef; Hapi; Jade DeCamp; Faust; Doctor Yuri
April 5, 1988. It was one of those spring mornings...
The birth of a psycho hero. Faust struggles violently to escape madness. To reach those who stole his life from him, he must claw his way through the horror of his own mind.
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Lyrics used in dialogue: "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", copyright 1965 James Brown, King Records. Extreme violence and sexual situations.
Fritz Whistle

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
The Adventure Begins...
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Miscellaneous
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Small portfolio of illustrations for the upcoming Fritz Whistle series in the pages of Faust.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Merchandising!!
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Interior back cover promotional house advertisement for Northstar merchandise including t-shirts, portfolios and postcards.
Omega

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
The Prophecy Comes Tru This January
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Back cover promotional advertisement for the new series Omega (Northstar, 1988 series).

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