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Issue: A Contract with God #[nn]
Publication Date: June 1985
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Publisher: FlagKitchen Sink Press
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Indicia Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
On Sale Date: 1985
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Pages: ?
ISBN: 0878160183
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $7.95 USD
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Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 5.875 in. x 9 in.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: graphic novel
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FlagA Contract with God #[nn] published October 1978 was A Contract with God [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Genres: drama, historical
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Preface

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Disclose Notes: The original preface is dated August 1978, with separate addenda dated January 1989 and June 1995.
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Introduction

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A Tenement in the Bronx

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1: A Contract with God

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Genres: drama, historical
Character(s): Frimme Hersh
Synopsis: Frimme Hersh, en route from Europe to America, writes a contract with God on a stone. He promises to live a pious, devout life, doing good deeds if God allows him safe passage to his new home. One day, having settled in his New York tenement home, Frimme finds a basket with a baby girl in it upon his doorstep. Frimme tries to raise the girl to the best of his ability, but she dies tragically from an illness at a young age. Filled with bitter rage, Frimme spits upon his contract, throws it out the window and decides to become a successful businessman.
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2: The Street Singer

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3: The Super

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4: Cookalein

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