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Issue: Weirdo #5
Publication Date: January 1982
 
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Publisher: FlagLast Gasp
Indicia Publisher: Last Gasp Eco Funnies
On Sale Date: 1982
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: 0867191376
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 21 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Letters page includes comments from Kim Deitch. Cover price rises with this issue.

1st printing: May 1982 (2.50 USD); 2nd printing: July 1982 (2.50 USD)
Both printings were 10,000 copies apiece
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; black and white interiors
Dimensions: 8.25 in. x 10.75 in. (20.9 cm x 27.3 cm)
Paper Stock: glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Goodbye Cruel World
Reprinting
FlagR. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 #[nn] published January 2013
FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Cover design resembles early issues of Mad as a Magazine.
They Need Your Designer Jeans

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Fake fundraising ad
Reprinting
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] published July 1986
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 #[nn] published February 2012
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] published September 1986
as They Need Your Designer Jeans [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Laugh Makers
Bud Abbott; Joe DeRita; Oliver Hardy; Fred Quimby; Doodles Weaver; Jimmy Nelson; Danny O'Day; Farfel
Bud Abbott made his final stage appearance in 1974 at the old actors home in Los Angeles.
False biographical oddities about comedians in their advanced old age.
Reprinting
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] published July 1986
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 #[nn] published February 2012
FlagAny Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] published September 1986
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe New Comics Anthology #[nn] published January 1991
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn
Prof. T.E. Zwigoff (photo of Terry Zwigoff)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.29
Weirdo Number 5

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as Weirdo Letters Page Logos [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]masthead drawing
 
Miscellaneous
1.41
Includes letters from Dawn Martin (Seattle, WA), Larry Adler (NY, NY), R.F. McAteer, John King (NY, NY), J.H. Szostek (Leeds, UK), Steve Replogle (Grant, CO), Big Red, Kim Deitch, Steven Dover (NY, NY), Ron Evry (Fredericksburg, VA), Ole Askholm (Brandon, Manitoba).
Somebody Help Me!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Robert Crumb (photo)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.3
Ad for back issues of this magazine. Accompanied by a small ad for Robert Armstrong's Couch Potato Movement newsletter, "The Tuber's Voice."
Unsung Heroes in the History of Humour

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
Approximately twenty-six assorted old cartoons and gags, most of them anonymous.
Professor Brainard Admonishes His Nephew Maynard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Professor Brainard
Professor Brainard
Rhyme about the perils of youth
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Space Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Professor Brainard
Professor Brainard
Cautionary rhyme about spreading our bad habits elsewhere
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.
Professor Brainard Encounters Lemurman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Professor Brainard
Professor Brainard
The Professor meets Lemurman
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.
The Hucksters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Professor Brainard
Professor Brainard
The Professor rails against greed
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.
A Dissertation On Creation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Professor Brainard
Professor Brainard
A rhyming rant against creationists
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.
Peter Makes the Scene

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Peter the Penis
Peter is introduced to other women
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Ricky Dickner's Manic Activity Book

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Ricky Dickner
The fate of wildman Ricky Dickner.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
Strip credited only to "Tom -n- Craig."
She Jumped On Her Pushbike and Pedalled Away!

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photo)
? (photo)
Subject Matter
humorous
Aline Kominsky-Crumb (photo)
The pleasures of cycling
Reprinting
FlagNeed More Love A Graphic Memoir #[nn] published January 2007
as She Jumped On Her Push-Bike and Pedalled Away! [Photo Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
Photostrip adapting an old song lyric
The Pen Is

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Ad for Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories.
The Old Songs are the Best Songs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Humourous adaptations of old song lyrics
Reprinting
FlagR. Crumb Draws the Blues #[nn] published January 1993
FlagR. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 #[nn] published January 2013
FlagR. Crumb Draws the Blues #[nn] published January 1992
as The Old Songs Are the Best Songs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as The Old Songs are the Best Songs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as On the Street Where You Live [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as My Guy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as Purple Haze [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as When You Go A Courtin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRocky #4/2006 published May 2006
as De gamle sangene er de beste sangene [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
FlagRocky #6/2006 published August 2006
as De gamle sangene er de beste sangene del 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
 
Miscellaneous
8
I Became the Slave of the Wild Girls of Putah Creek

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
An explorer is captured by jungle amazons
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
Macedonio #268314

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
autobiography
Life in a Texas prison
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
This sequence includes the following stories and illustrations: "Contoones;" "Tales from the Inside- "Cultured Criminals;" "Tales from the Inside- Shitter Time;" "The Rebellion"
Punch-A-Bunch

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Fake ad for a roll-back doll
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Weirdo License

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Etoain Shrdlu
Official Weirdo certificate
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #14 [unnamed variant] published April 2000
as Weirdo License [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
back cover

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