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Issue: Arcade the Comics Revue #4
Publication Date: January 1975
 
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Publisher: FlagThe Print Mint Inc
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Indicia Publisher: The Print Mint Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/18/1975
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 USD
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Content Items: 35 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date given in William S. Burroughs' copyright registration for the text of his story "Fun City in Ba'dan." No copyright registration was filed for the issue as a whole.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; black and white interiors
Dimensions: Magazine size (8.12" x 10.5" (20.62 cm x 26.67 cm))
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Frosty the Snowman
Frosty The Snowman
Here's One for th' Baby Jeeziz!
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FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #10 [unnamed variant] published March 1994
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Krupp Mail Order

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Krupp Mail Order
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Inside front cover. Ad for Krupp Mail Order Catalogue for $1.00 from Boulder, Colo.
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Bizarre Comix

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Bélier Press
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Inside front cover. Ad for Bizarre Comics #1 and #2 from Bélier Press, New York, NY 10028. Covers are shown.
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Arcade the Comics Revue

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Table of Contents, list of staff and writers and artists (with "self-portraits.") and indicia. The R. Crumb self-portrait from the contents page was reprinted in The Complete Crumb vol. 10.
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William S. Burroughs and S. Clay Wilson

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The Outline
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Letters
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Letters from Ken Jacobs; Roger Carrington; Dennis Carrington; Michael H. Price; Bruce Sterling; and Bob Singer.
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Frosty the Snowman and His Friends

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Frosty The Snowman; Stoop; Tuffy
Frosty and friends plot to throw bombs disguised as snowballs at the "Rockerfella" mansion.
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FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #10 [unnamed variant] published March 1994
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FlagR. Crumb's America #[nn] published October 1995
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FlagThe R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book #[nn] published January 1997
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These are 12 two-tier gag strips, set up as half-page strips with a logo on each one.
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Fun City In Ba'Dan

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Narrator; Audrey; Pu
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FlagThe Mythology of S. Clay Wilson #1 published June 2014
 
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Text story with seven illustrations and an illustrated border on the last two pages.
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Heidi's Story

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Heidi (dog)
Heidi the dog is left alone in the house.
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As the Mind Reels

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Chuck; Barbie; Doctor Legman; Martha
A surreal soap opera.
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FlagBreakdowns: From Maus to Now: An Anthology of Strips #[nn] published December 1977
FlagBreakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! #[nn] published October 2008
as Soap Opera Strip. notes (cont'd) "As the Mind Reels" (tentative title) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Dollboy

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humorous
Dr Morton; Jocko
A ventriloquist's dummy is kidnapped.
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FlagEl Víbora #3 published February 1980
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FlagThe New Comics Anthology #[nn] published January 1991
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FlagBill Griffith: Lost and Found - Comics 1969-2003 #[nn] published December 2011
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A Uniquely Complete Experience

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Arnold Peck The Human Wreck
Arnold Peck; Packy
The President passes by the café where Arnold is sitting.
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FlagFlamed-out Funnies #2 published November 1976
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Subject Matter
adult
Hollywood 'Hairboy'; Portly Bohemian
The Dynamics of “An Ugly Incident
A knife fight with fatal results.
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FlagHysteria in Remission: The Comix & Drawings of Robt. Williams #[nn] published September 2002
as The Dynamics of “An Ugly Incident” - A Hollywood 'hairboy' altercates with a portly bohemian [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Centerspread; pantomime story.
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Coca-Cola: Der Volkseltzer

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Subject Matter
Space Age Confidential
The ubiquity of Coca-Cola
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Text article with four illustrations
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Stalin

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Subject Matter
biography
Josef Stalin; Lenin; Nadia Stalin; Winston Churchill; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Biography of Stalin
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FlagMy True Story #[nn] published August 1994
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Cat and Pup Come to Town

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Cat; Pup; Plastic Man (cameo)
Cat and Pup wreak havoc.
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Strip has a satirical Plastic Man cameo.
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Genesis 38 Gluecified

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Subject Matter
humorous
Chapel for Glueheads
Mr More; Darlene; Mary Jo; Onan; Tamarra; Shela
Modern re-telling of a Biblical story from Genesis Chapter 38.
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The Adventures of Don Carlos Balmori

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Subject Matter
biography
Famous Frauds
Carlos Gonzales; Don Carlos Balmori
The story of a Mexican hoaxer.
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FlagBeyond the Pale! Krazed Komics and Stories #[nn] published October 1989
FlagThe New Comics Anthology #[nn] published January 1991
as The Adventures of Don Carlos Balmori (Famous Frauds no. 1) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland

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humorous
Arcade Archives
Nibsy; The King;
The King needs a heir.
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from Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland Sunday newspaper strips.
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A parody of Winsor McKay's Little Nemo from 1905. Colour strips reprinted in black and white.
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The 76 Marijuana Moonphase Calendar

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Dhrama Inner Light
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Ad for a color calendar featuring photos of marijuana. $6.00 from Dharma Inner Light, Auburn, CA 95603.
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While They Last!

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Arcade
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Ad for back issues of Arcade. Has illustration by Crumb.
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Toadette Paranoia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
The Toadettes
The secret life of toads
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FlagBD : L'hebdo de la B.D. #37 published ?
FlagBill Griffith: Lost and Found - Comics 1969-2003 #[nn] published December 2011
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National Weed On Sale Now

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National Weed
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Ad for subscriptions to the "National Weed," a magazine promoting marijuana.
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The $62.14 Misunderstanding

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humorous
Rowdy Noody
Rowdy Noody
Rowdy is paid money to jump naked in the lake.
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No. 886 the French Push

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Subject Matter
humorous
About the Citroen 2CV
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FlagU-Comix #12 published August 1981
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Blabette Yakowitz Takes a Vacation

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Blabette Yakowitz; Murray Yakowitz
Parents visit their daughter in San Francisco.
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Household Appliances

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The TV Family
A baby-sitter sabotages the parents' car.
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Household appliances as people.
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Mommy's Song

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A mother sings an inappropriate song to her child.
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Song lyrics are apparently taken from "I've Been Hoodood" by Gussie L. Davis (1890s), with some variations.
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Freak Circus

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A girl feeds mushrooms to rabbits in the forest.
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Brillo 'n Burma

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humorous
Brillo 'n Burma
Brillo; Burma; Bekins
The life of a bear family.
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FlagGlitz-2-Go #[nn] published January 2012
 
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Looking at the World Thru Rose Colored Glasses

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The First sip
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Factotum

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Subject Matter
Black Sparrow Press
Charles Bukowski (photo)
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Inside back cover. Ad for novel "Factotum" by Charles Bukowski from Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA 90025.
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The Distributors

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The Distributors
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Inside back cover. Ad for The Distributors, South Bend, Ind. 46635: "A 24 hour source for wholesale quality paperbacks." Cover of "A History of Underground Comics" is depicted.
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California Comics

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California Comics
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Inside back cover. Ad for California Comics (Bob Sidebottom, San Jose, Calif.) Covers to Barbarian Comix #1-4, Barbarian Women #1, Little Book of Inner Space; and California Comics #1-2 are shown.
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Uncle Sol's Creative Arts Seminars

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Subject Matter
humorous
Uncle Sol
The abrasive Uncle Sol offers advice.
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FlagJustin Green's Binky Brown Sampler #[nn] published January 1995
 
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Back cover. Five one-tier humour strips

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