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Issue: Anarchy Comics #4
Publication Date: January 1987
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues (7 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagLast Gasp
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Indicia Publisher: Last Gasp
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume:
Pages: 44
ISBN: 0867191775
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Price: $2.50 USD
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Content Items: 16 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney (associate editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: limited series
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Just Say Yes to Anarachy Comics

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Paul Mavrides
Inker(s): Paul Mavrides
Colorist(s): Paul Mavrides
Letterer(s): Paul Mavrides
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Cavemen brandishing golfclubs, phone receivers and hammers tromp over a wasteland of skulls, computers, and keyboards and gaze at decaying skyscrapers in a post-civilization world.
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A heavily doctored Charles R. Knight painting is probably the skeletal underpinning for this image. Half-toned stats used in its production were done with the assistance of Processed World, a radical magazine of the era.
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The Conspiracy District Court Star-Chamber: Northern District of Eco-Topia

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Mavrides
Letterer(s): Paul Mavrides
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Introduction to the artists and stories in the issue in the guise of an indictment of "the Anarchy Comics Collective," a fictitious entity representing the contributors to the issue.
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The "indictment" is signed by "Winston P. Smith, Conspiracy Attorney," an ironic reference to the protagonist of George Orwell's 1984.
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Armageddon Outtahere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
Penciller(s): Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
Inker(s): Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
Letterer(s): J
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bud Tuttle; Dritz Bodkin; Jesus; Mary Magdalene; the Anti-Christ; a cast of millions
Synopsis: Mistakenly thinking the world is ending, Tuttle and Bodkin lock themselves in an underground survivalist chamber, only to re-emerge 10 years later when the real end-of-the-world is unleashed.
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Tuttle and Bodkin had appeared in previous Kinney-Mavrides strips and Tuttle originated in a Kinney-Sonntag strip in Occult Laff-Parade in 1973.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Cliff Harper
Penciller(s): Cliff Harper
Inker(s): Cliff Harper
Letterer(s): Cliff Harper
Subject Matter
First Line: On the Night of March 3 1982...
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: First 3 pages are a mostly-wordless depiction of a teenager's petrol-bombing of a police station in a London suburb in 1982 (which caused no loss of life and little damage). The final page is a mostly text summary of the subsequent fall-out which included the perpetrator's hanging himself in custody.
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You Rule the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Norman Dog
Penciller(s): Norman Dog
Inker(s): Norman Dog
Letterer(s): Norman Dog
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A discontinuous sequence of panels showing different choices culminating in the protagonist ruling the world, as he is the only one left.
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Pages: 4
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1871

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
Penciller(s): Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
Inker(s): Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
Letterer(s): Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Emperor Napoleon III; Jacques; Raymond; Leon Gambetta; Cleric; Claire LaPorte; Raoul; Monsieur Renoir
Synopsis: A dramatized historical strip about the Paris Commune and its fate.
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
In Content Item: FlagMy True Story #[nn] published August 1994
as 1871 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Public Enemy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Melinda Gebbie
Penciller(s): Melinda Gebbie
Inker(s): Melinda Gebbie
Letterer(s): Melinda Gebbie
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A semi-allegorical account of the bust, impounding, and destruction of the artists' solo comic, Frescazizis, in the 1980s in the UK.
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Pages: 3
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Mr. Helpful

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Norman Dog
Penciller(s): Norman Dog
Inker(s): Norman Dog
Letterer(s): Norman Dog
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Recursive tale of a wish to help world hunger delayed by the desire for a "little snack."
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Pages: 2
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Confirm Your Worst Suspicions with Anarchy Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Mavrides
Penciller(s): Paul Mavrides
Inker(s): Paul Mavrides
Letterer(s): Paul Mavrides
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad occupying the left half of page 34.
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Executive Terrorism

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): S. Zorca
Penciller(s): Paul Mavrides (spot illo)
Inker(s): Paul Mavrides (spot illo)
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story occupies right side of page 34 and left side of adjoining page 35.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: House ad for 4 issues of Anarchy Comics with ordering coupon.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Occupies the right side of page 35.
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Korporate-Rex

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): R. Diggs
Penciller(s): R. Diggs
Inker(s): R. Diggs
Letterer(s): R. Diggs
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Allegorical strip of international corporations as battling dinosaurs
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
In Content Item: FlagGreatest Diggs of All Time #[nn] published January 1991
as Korporate Rex [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Anarchy = Panarchy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry S. Robins
Penciller(s): Harry S. Robins
Inker(s): Harry S. Robins
Letterer(s): Harry S. Robins
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Intricate rhyming strip riffing on the meaning of the word "anarchy".
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In Issue: FlagUG!3K & Expozo #[nn] published December 1999
In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Byron Werner
Penciller(s): Byron Werner
Inker(s): Byron Werner
Letterer(s): Byron Werner
Subject Matter
First Line: The Federation of Planets extends greetings to Planet Earth and its people
Synopsis: Infant convinces arriving aliens that Earth's inhabitants are too primitive to wisely use the aliens' offer of advanced technological knowledge. They depart.
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Pages: 1
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Cover-up Lowdown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
Penciller(s): Paul Mavrides
Inker(s): Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
Letterer(s): Jay Kinney
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Satire of the international arms market, featuring a character reminiscent of Fat Freddy of the Freak Brothers.
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Greetings from Hiroshima, Japan

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Paul Mavrides
Inker(s): Paul Mavrides
Colorist(s): Paul Mavrides
Letterer(s): Paul Mavrides
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Mock 'souvenir" postcard of Hiroshima after the U.S. Atomic attack
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In Issue: FlagAnarchy Comics: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2012
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover

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