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Issue: American Splendor: Portrait of the Author in His Declining Years #[nn]
Publication Date: April 2001
 
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
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Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Inc.
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Pages: 28
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UPC/EAN: 6156800448
Price: $3.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Diana Schutz
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: One-shot
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Special 25th Anniversary Issue!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Harvey Pekar
A photograph of a smiling Harvey Pekar, with notes about the contents and a list of the illustrators inside the issue.
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Photographic cover
Features

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Payback

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Harvey Pekar; Dean Haspiel; Josh Neufeld
Well, let's get this thing going.
Harvey explains how Dean Haspiel connected him with Good Machine to make a movie of his life, and Harvey repaid Dean by giving him an American Splendor story to illustrate.
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Miscellaneous
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Dennis McGee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Subject Matter
biography, non-fiction
Michael Doucet; Dennis McGee; Harvey Pekar
It's taken a long time, but finally Southwest Louisiana's Cajun and zydeco music has achieved a degree of international popularity.
Pekar introduces the music and legacy of musician Dennis McGee
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Sidney Bechet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
biography, non-fiction
Sidney Bechet; Clarence Williams; Duke Ellington; Noble Sissle; Bill Coleman
New Orleans clarinet/soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet (1877-1959) was a contemporary of Louis Armstrong's...
A portrait of jazz musician Sidney Bechet
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Why I Haven't Visited the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Bruce Springsteen; Jim Nabors; Lonnie Johnson; B.B. King; Charlie Christian; T. Bone Walker; Billy Joel; The Eagles; Dusty Springfield; Fleetwood Mac; Bobby Darin; Elvis Presley; Alan Freed; The Crewcuts; Pat Boone; Guy Mitchell; Patti Page
People ask me why I haven't visited the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, since I live in Cleveland and write about music...
Why Harvey Pekar refuses to visit the Cleveland-based Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
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Ameritech

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Dennis Collier
Dennis Collier
Dennis Collier
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Harvey Pekar; Kenny
Hmmm... What rapacious corporation and/or industry can I attack today on behalf of not only myself but the oppressed masses?
A screed against the telecommunications company Ameritech
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Danielle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Frank Stack
Frank Stack
Frank Stack
Subject Matter
biography, non-fiction
Harvey Pekar; Danielle; Harvey's Buddy; Surgeon; Joyce Brabner
The early and middle seventies -- what a lonely, awful time for me!
Harvey's story of his vasectomy, his later marriage to Joyce, and their decision to take on a girl named Danielle as their foster daughter.
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Reduction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Subject Matter
humorous, non-fiction
Harvey Pekar; Toby Radloff
Hey, Toby...
At the VA hospital, Harvey and Toby discuss Toby's goal of losing weight for the millennium
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Scenes from the Market

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Pekar
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Harvey Pekar
'ey, you short-changed me!
A montage of scenes from a Cleveland market
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