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Issue: Bizarre Thrills #1
Publication Date: January 1977
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagAC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Paragon Publications
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 40
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: none entered
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 14 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Black [as William Black] (editor and publisher)
Disclose Notes: The editorial marks this as Paragon's 13th publication including portfolios
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Magazine size
Paper Stock:  
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagFemForce #16 published December 1988 as Miss Victory [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Illustrated Adventures of the Unusual

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]
Synopsis: A bound and gagged Phantom Lady is menaced by someone with a blackjack.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Based on the interior story, the hand holding the blackjack turns out to be that of a woman.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, fantasy
First Line: Illustrated adventures of the unusual.
Synopsis: Woman with a sword is tangled in a tentacle while large human eyes watch from the dark.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Earlier this year, while wrapping up the protfolio Fem Forever...
Synopsis: The introduction appears next to an illustration of a topless girl roped to a pillar.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Also, the indicia appears here.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Illustrations and text describe the Fem Forever portfolio and also the one-shot, Drenched Damsels, available from the publisher.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Battle Beyond Reality

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Phantom Lady; Black Cat
Synopsis: The Phantom Lady waits outside a theater advertising a film that appears to show her fighting Black Cat. She enters the theater and thereby enters the film, a surreal nightmare of shifting images, fights, and brief nudity.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The movie poster lists the star as Barbara Steele. Steele is a real-life British film star who emerged on the scene in 1960 in schlock movies filmed on the cheap in Italy. The final frame of the story is a nod to Vincent Price in Roger Corman's The House of Usher.
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The Executioner's Proposition

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, humorous
First Line: They want blood...
Synopsis: A medieval executioner pauses his ax to suggest an alternative to his topless victim.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Tara
Character(s): Tara Fremont
First Line: Over the waters of a tropical lagoon...
Synopsis: Tara follows a vision into a subaquatic cave.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, humorous
Feature(s): Harv's Honeys
Character(s): Starbright; Frog; Crow
First Line: You know it's a wig and that I'm not a real blonde...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ? (logo)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Miss Victory [Joan Wayne]; Nazi babe
Synopsis: While chained to a giant swastika, Miss Victory is menaced by a topless Nazi woman.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The first and fourth page are single frame action. Page 2 and 3 constitute a two-page giant centerfold. No dialog for this three-frame sequence, no credits except for artist signature.
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Blackjack

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, superhero
Character(s): Blonde Phantom; Lady Luck; Black Cat; Bulletgirl; Phantom Lady; Nightveil (host); Dr. Heinrich Wirtham; The Olde Ones
First Line: Alone in space, I sit, self-exiled...
Synopsis: The story of a mystical blackjack is intertwined with the tale of an analysis of Earth's comics performed by Dr. Heinrich Wirtham as he realizes it is being used in the comics as part of a ritual to open a dimensional gate.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNightveil #6 published January 1986
as Blackjack [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The narrative is typeset, and there are several places with hand-drawn lettering for sound effects, signs, fictitious comic cover blurbs, etc.

Satire on Fredric Wertham and his book The Seduction of the Innocent. Also mentions rotund publisher Gainsborough Williams. Lovecraft reference in The Olde Ones.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Black Phantom; Calamity Kate; Firehair; Red Mask; Haunted Horseman; Presto Kid
First Line: Freeze right whar ya are, Phantom!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The story is presented two pages at a time, with the following sequence in between page 2 and page 3.
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In the Clutches of Countess Peril

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Stormy Tempest
Character(s): Stormy Tempest; Countess Peril (villainess)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, fantasy
Synopsis: A topless woman is threatened by two small humanoid creatures sitting atop her breasts.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, fantasy
Synopsis: A naked woman in a bog is stalked by a seven-tentacled alien from the dark.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover

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