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Issue: ORBiT #1
Publication Date: January 1990
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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEclipse
Brand: Eclipse Books
Indicia Publisher: Eclipse Books
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN: 0913035874
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.95 CAD
$4.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Cover price taken from back cover. No publication date in comic; indexed date from copyright notice. Davis Publications, Inc. is the publisher of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; glossy paper
Binding: squarebound
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Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Possum Dark; Ginny Sweethips [as Nurse Nora]
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In Issue: FlagUSA magazine #53 published March 1991
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover art is based on the sequence 6 story.
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T able O f C ontents

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover B&W indicia/credits page. No series title in indicia.
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ORBiT

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title page. Indexed series title is from this page.
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untitled

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.
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Nothing For Nothing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Explorer; Captain; Trader
Synopsis: Aliens try to trade with Cro-Magnon humans.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Adaptation of a 1979 prose short story first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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untitled

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.
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GINNY SWEETHIPS' FLYING CIRCUS

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ginny Sweethips [as Barbara Jean, Nurse Nora, & Schoolteacher Sally]; Del; Possum Dark; Moro Gain; Dog Quick; Fred
Synopsis: A woman, an accountant droid, and an anthropomorphic opossum try to survive the collapse of civilization by selling sex, tacos, and dangerous drugs.
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In Content Item: FlagSeriemagasinet #5/1991 published March 1991
as Vilken cirkus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: Adaptation of a 1988 prose short story first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Mature content: suggestive scenes and language.
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untitled

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.
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Fermi and Frost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Timothy Clary; Harry Malibert; Steve; Elda
Synopsis: Refugees from World War III try to survive a nuclear winter in Iceland.
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Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Adaptation of a 1984 prose short story first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Colour Eclipse Books back issue list for "graphic albums".
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Colour subscription ad for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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W hat's N ext: O rbit #2

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover B&W page listing the contents of the next issue in this series.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover of comic. Illustrated with art from page 5 of this issue.

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