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Issue: Action Girl Comics #11
Publication Date: May 1997
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Issues: #11 of 19 Issues (22 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagSlave Labor
Brand: SLGView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Slave Labor Graphics
On Sale Date: 05/18/1997
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 17 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Limited Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Action Girl
Character(s): Action Girl
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Kate
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Disclose Notes: Drawing of a new character, Kate, accompanies the text. At this point in the series, Kate's only appearance has been on a trading card produced for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Info about upcoming conventions that various Action Girl Comics contributors will attend, also info about upcoming issue #13. On inside front cover.
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Tobey's Holiday Dinner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Chris Tobey; Tom Tobey
Synopsis: Chris & Tom have a bunch of friends over for a holiday dinner. Chris does all the work, while Tom entertains the friends, because he's oblivious to her sarcasm. As she tells herself she'll never do this again, a guest proposes a toast to Chris as the best hostess ever.
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Pages: 2
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Stay Gold Pony Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Patty; Jan
Synopsis: Patty recalls watching teen flicks with her sister Jan, such as "The Outsiders" (based on the book by S.E. Hinton), and John Hughes movies like "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Pretty In Pink."
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How I Became Beautiful

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Melissa; Alexandra
Synopsis: Alexandra's mom was a Mary Kay lady, so Alexandra got to wear makeup to school when she was 11. Melissa recounts how she saved her allowance to afford a tube of Pearly Pink #7 lipstick, which she put on after she got to school because she thought her parents wouldn't approve. After seeing Loni Anderson on the TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati," Melissa got a perm and that is when she felt she "became beautiful."
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Going Dutch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Jen; Ruth; Ethel
Synopsis: Jen recounts some of her experiences as a grocery store clerk in Pennsylvania Dutch country. She warns to not eat the "delicacy" called Scrapple because of what it's made of (scraps of pig meat, including snouts). She recalls the area as being almost without any pretense at all. Her boss reminds her of Ned Flanders from the TV show "The Simpsons." The bag boys talk about their cars. And her inspiration is an older cashier, Ethel, who was a dancer and cocktail waitress in New York City in the 1940s, who tells her to live hard and fast because at 22 you're just young and stupid anyway.
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Puberty Shmewberty!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Lisa McElroy
Penciller(s): Lisa McElroy
Inker(s): Lisa McElroy
Letterer(s): Lisa McElroy
Subject Matter
Feature(s): TinyTotz Comix
Character(s): Scooter; Tink; Miss Dunlap
Synopsis: Scooter and Tink are bored by the sex education class being taught be Miss Dunlap so they claim fake pre-menstrual tension and temporary water weight to get out of class and go to the nurse's office, but instead they hang out on the playground eating candy cigarettes and imagining growing up to be a gangster's moll or owner of a bumper car amusement park ride. Later they play dodge ball during gym class where they get hit by the balls.
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Quitter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: A young man recounts how he wanted to be an artist and thought a degree was required, so he went to art school where he learned nothing because he was too intimidated by other, more talented students, and he pushed away those who tried to help. Eventually he quit and didn't draw at all for years. But eventually he started drawing again and learned to get out of his own way and just draw.
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Pages: 7
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Pivotal Scenes from My Life as a Stage Actress

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Leslee; Chrissy Toberman
Synopsis: Leslee doesn't get the part she wanted in a third grade school play, but Chrissy Toberman (her Leslee considers to be her arch enemy) got the part, and wanted to trade. During the play Leslee has to stand on a chair while speaking, and during the performance she falls down. The teacher tells her she's OK and that the show must go on. The worst part for Leslee wasn't that she fell or that the kids laughed, it was that Chrissy saw her fall, and Leslee imagines that Chrissy snickered at her humiliation.
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Mrs. Miller

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: biography
Synopsis: When an elderly neighborhood resident passes away, the author goes to the estate sale that is run by the state since the deceased had no family. The author didn't know the woman well, but recalled selling her Girl Scout Cookies when the author was a child. The house was full of books and art at very low prices. The author buys a few items, and wonders what the deceased - Mrs. Miller - would have thought about her and the state going through her things.
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Fashion Is Silly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: While sitting in a dentist's office waiting to have oral surgery, the author reads a fashion magazine from the 1980s that is over 10 years old, and recalls some of the stupid fashions that were popular, like bad perms, guys with pony tails, acid wash jeans, pants with multiple pockets on the legs, leg warms with high-heel shoes, shoulder pads and stirrup pants.
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He Shoulda Knowed Betta!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Chris; Jim
Synopsis: Chris is eating a messy tuna sandwich and Jim is looking at a scrapbook he made of John Romita Spider-Man newspaper comic strips. Chris asks to look at it, Jim is reluctant but agrees, and Chris spills a huge bit of tuna sandwich on an open page. Chris then tells Jim it's his fault because he should have known better.
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Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Your Hostesses
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Disclose Notes: Info about the contributors to the issue, including info on their other projects. Some include mailing addresses or email address, to facilitate ordering those other books directly from the contributors.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Further Rambling
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Info on other independent comics, mini-comics and 'zines that may be of interest to readers of Action Girl Comics.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Action Mail
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from readers.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Information about how to order back issues of this comic, a catalog of other Slave Labor comics, and Action Girl T-shirts. On inside back cover.
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Slave Labor World Tour!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Info about various Slave Labor creators who will be part of the Slave Labor convention tour, noting which conventions will be on the tour and which creators will be at each convention. On back cover. Conventions listed are: Comic Book Extravaganza, June 7, 1997; Dragon-Con, June 26-29, 1997; Chicago Comic-Con, July 4-6, 1997; Comic-International: San Diego, July 17-20, 1997; Words & Pictures Museum, Sept. 20, 1997; Small Press Expo (SPX), Sept. 20, 1997; and Alternative Press Expo (APE) V, Feb. 21-22, 1998.

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