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Issue: Boris the Bear Instant Color Classics #1

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Publication Date: July 1987

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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Dark Horse

Brand: Dark Horse Color Comics

Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

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Price: $2.50 CAD
$1.75 USD

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Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Randy Stradley

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Miniseries

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): James Dean Smith (signed)

Inker(s): James Dean Smith (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Boris the Bear

Character(s): Boris the Bear

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Randy Stradley; Mike Richardson (story)

Penciller(s): James Dean Smith

Inker(s): James Dean Smith

Colorist(s): Steve Mattsson

Letterer(s): John Workman

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Boris the Bear

Character(s): Boris the Bear; Hari Kari Hare (parody of Usagi Yojimbo); Sloberus (parody of Cerebus); Tampa Mice (parody of Miami Vice); Juvenile Deviant Hard-Shelled Assassins (parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); Fledgling Fluoroscopic Brownie-Button Rodents (parody of Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters); Bullwinkle (parody of); Woody Woodpecker (parody of); Smurfs (parody of); Space Arks (parody of); Wile E. Coyote (parody of); Road Runner (parody of); Bugs Bunny (parody of); others

First Line: This place isn't so bad.

Synopsis: Boris the Bear encounters and destroys all funny animal characters he encounters.

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From Content Item: Flag

Boris the Bear #1 [First Print] published August 1986
was Boris the Bear Slaughters the Teenage Radioactive Black Belt Mutant Ninja Critters [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 21

Promotional Advertisements

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 8

Notes: Charles Vess' The Book of Night (comic book, Dark Horse Comics); Mecha (comic book, Dark Horse Comics); The American #2 (comic book, Dark Horse Comics); Get Real With the Bear of Steel (sportswear, Dark Horse Comics); The Mark #1 (comic book, Dark Horse Comics); Boris the Bear #12 (comic book, Dark Horse Comics); Concrete #4 (comic book, Dark Horse Comics); Trekker #3 (comic book, Dark Horse Comics)

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): J. Bradrick

Inker(s): J. Bradrick

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: Funny promotional on the consequences of purchasing cheap imitation comics other than Dark Horse Comics.