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Issue: A Distant Soil #23
Publication Date: February 1998
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Issues: #23 of 28 Issues (29 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagImage
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Image Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $4.10 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 13 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jason; Ninivir
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagA Distant Soil #2 published September 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]Cover is reprinted on page 151 of this sequence in between story from issue #22.
In Content Item: FlagA Distant Soil #2 published April 2014
as Chapter Seventeen [Story on Interior Page(s)]Cover is inserted as page three of story.
From Content Item: FlagA Distant Soil #8 published December 1985
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]Cover image reprinted with different logos and text.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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What Has Gone Before

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ninivir
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Recap and credits. Small illustration of Ninivir from cover is reproduced.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): D'Mer; Seren [Rieken]; Bast; Jason; Ninivir
First Line: The Avatar's Gardens
Synopsis: Bast offers to take D'Mer's place when D'Mer has to be handed over to Emeris. Ninivir takes Jason to the airlock and loses consciousness as Jason tries to open the lock.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagA Distant Soil #2 published September 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagA Distant Soil #2 published April 2014
as Chapter Seventeen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Sere
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Mary K. Maulucci, JIMANDEE, Rob Grimmbeau and JK Carrier. Small head shot of Sere reproduced from pencil illustration on second page of Sketch Book sequence.
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The Gift

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Antonio Minetti; Angelo Minetti; Reynaldo
Synopsis: Angelo finds Reynaldo stealing from the church poor box. He lets him keep the money.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagA Distant Soil #2 published September 1998
as The Gift [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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A Distant Soil

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jason; Beys; Liana; Seren [Rieken]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Subscription and back issue information illustrated with reproductions of covers.
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The A Distant Soil Sketch Book

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bast; Jason; Sere; Jessica; Aeren; Seren [Rieken]; D'Mer; Beys; Ninvir; Galahad
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagA Distant Soil #2 published September 1998
as Portrait Gallery [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]reprints page 2 of this sequence
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (Photographs of Harlan Ellison, Anita Doran, Colleen Doran, Sergio Aragones and Walter Koenig)
Inker(s): ? (Photographs of Harlan Ellison, Anita Doran, Colleen Doran, Sergio Aragones and Walter Koenig)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Niniri
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Recent and upcoming activities of the author. List of retailers who support the comic. Example of pencil sketch in the remarqued hardcover edition of the collected edition of A Distant Soil.
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We Told You Everyone Would be Talking About

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for A Touch of Silver Trade Paperback featuring quotes from Will Eisner, Kurt Busiek, Steve Geppi, Marv Wolfman, Warren Ellis, Stan Sakai, Batton Lash, Tony Isabella, Fabian Nacieza, Terry Moore, Terri S. Wood, Colleen Doran, Ray Zone, Mark Waid and Peter David.
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PFLAG

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
Character(s): Ad for PFLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Dragon Battles a Knight in Shining Armor

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Savage Dragon #47 featuring cover art.
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Lea Hernandez Cathedral Child

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Feature(s): Cathedral Child
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for Cathedral Child graphic novel by Lea Hernandez and Kurt Busiek illustrated with a copy of the book's cover. Quote from Katherine Kerr.
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A Distant Soil: The Gathering

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Liana; Seren [Rieken]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad for the collected edition of A Distant Soil illustrated with a copy of the cover.

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