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Issue: Taboo #2
Publication Date: January 1989
 
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Volume: 1
Pages: 148
ISBN: 0922003017
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Price: $9.95 USD
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Content Items: 46 (17 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Cover; Black & White Interior
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Paper Stock: Cardstock Cover
Binding: softcover; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Untitled Blasphemy

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The Droolies (study for an unrealised children's book project)

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Table of Contents

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Table of contents page, with small illustrations by Clive Barker and descriptive information on cover painting and inside front cover art, as well as short career biographies of their respective artists.
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Indicia and Acknowledgments

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Indicia page. Contains illustrations by Charles Burns.
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"The Pyjama Girl's Big Night Out" Introduction

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One of the oldest themes of the horror yarn, and that most associated with horror comics, is the "back-from-the-dead" revenge story.
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The Pyjama Girl's Big Night Out

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Pyjama Girl
The pyjama girl was hauled out of the liquid.
An unsolved Australian murder from the 1930s.
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FlagLittle Italy #1 published July 1991
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"Encore" Introduction

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In contrast to the story you've just read, "Encore" presents a more traditional approach to the archetypal walking-dead tale.
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Encore

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I was only a bookkeeper.
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"Mad Eyes" Introduction

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The effects of the 'British Invasion' are still being felt on the American and international comics scenes.
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Mad Eyes

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Tonight, after a life in the darkness, I was given my eyes
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"Sweet Nothings" Introduction

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One of the premises of Taboo is that there are no defined boundaries to the horror genre (or its realization through comic art).
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Sweet Nothings

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She began to wonder if this was normal.
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"Wet" Introduction

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While working on the ambitious second chapter of "Throat Sprockets", artist Mike Hoffman made time to...
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Wet

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Walter; Meg
Meg hadn't wanted to move into the duplex, but, Walter won out with his usual resolve...
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"Hell's Toupeé" and "Sick Animal" Introduction

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Once, delivering groceries to a nursing home, I stumbled into a mealtime scene that made me quite uncomfortable.
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Sick Animal

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He plastered his eyebrows with purple Maybelline probably.
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Hell's Toupeé

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He couldn't take anymore of her endless harangue.
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Numbleschitz

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Hey fuckley
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Elly

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"Check-out Time" Introduction

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"Check-out Time" author and artist Tom Marnick (a.k.a. Julie Bortzoil) claims that his story is based on a true experience . . .
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Check-out Time

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The Blue Royal Motor Inn... the friendly place to stay...
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"Saying Grace" Introduction

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During the winter of 1981-82, I had a series of nightmares that grew out of a period of change and turmoil in Nancy's and my life together.
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Saying Grace

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Cardinal Syn
Spit once.
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Features the character Cardinal Syn, who appeared to Bissette in a dream. Character also appeared in the cover painting to Taboo #1.
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"Sharks" Introduction

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Mark Askwith and Rick Taylor are soft-spoken, affable fellows living in Ontario, Canada...
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Sharks

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In the beginning there was chaos.
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"Life With the Vampire" Introduction

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For some storytellers, their fictional characters have autonomous lives, apparently immune to the whims and schemes of their creators.
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Life With the Vampire Chapter One: Oh God, It Feels Like Dying

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Maggie McDonnell; Barney; Ivan
The Vampire doesn't care much for that title.
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Life With the Vampire Chapter Two: The Human Crux

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Maggie McDonnell; Barney; Ivan
However. Later that night, Barney flops over on Ivan, wakes up and flees.
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Tom Veitch on S. Clay Wilson (1973)

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The point is – ya got this piece of blank paper before you.
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Excerpted from "Comix: How to think the unthinkable & live," The San Francisco Phoenix, Vol. 1 #17 (May 3, 1973), p. 8
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Rebel Reject Robots Dally with the Bastard Daughters of Corrupt Technocrats

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Rotting Zombie Harpies Dispatch a Vampire

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adult
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FlagThe Art of S. Clay Wilson #[nn] published January 2006
 
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The Checkered Demon and a Vampire Messmate Race to the Bottom

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Checkered Demon; Vampire Messmate
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FlagCocaine Comix #3 published January 1981
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The Merry Makers Parade by... Oblivious to the Odious Acts in the Alley.

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adult
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Tom Veitch on S. Clay Wilson (1973)

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Like you, gentle reader, I am repulsed and sickened by the art of S. Clay Wilson.
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Oh, Baby! Our love is Taboo

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Oh baby! Our love is taboo.
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"Mercy" Introduction

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Roman Catholicism is organized around inherited guilt and rituals of blood...
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Mercy

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go ahead jimmy it's your turn now...
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"Hate Mail" Introduction

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The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself.
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Hate Mail

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The doorbell rings. It's not my usual postman who delivers the package.
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"From Hell" Introduction

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From Hell.
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Salutation to Ganesa

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This book is dedicated to...
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From Hell Prologue: The Old Men on the Shore

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From Hell
Robert Lees; Fred Abberline
Bournemouth, September 1923
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FlagFrom Hell #1 [First Printing] published March 1991
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FlagHelvetistä #1 published September 1994
as Prologi: Vanhat miehet rannalla [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFrom Hell #[nn] [First Printing] published November 1999
as Prologue: The Old Men on the Shore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFrom Hell #1 published March 2000
as Prólogo: Los ancianos en la costa [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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From Hell Chapter One: The Affections of Young Mr. S

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From Hell
Annie Crook; Prince Eddie; Walter Sickert; John Netley; Alice Crook; Marie Kelly
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FlagFrom Hell #1 [First Printing] published March 1991
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FlagHelvetistä #1 published September 1994
as Luku 1 Nuoren herra S:n tunteet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFrom Hell #[nn] [First Printing] published November 1999
as Chapter One: The Affections of Young Mr. S [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFrom Hell #1 published March 2000
as Capítulo primero: Las inclinaciones del joven Sr. S [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Gut Reaction

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Titles of back cover and inside back cover art, as well as a short biography of Charles Lang, also appear on this page.
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Major Arcana: The Lovers and the Star (Eddie -- Annie -- The London Pentacle)

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From Hell
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Printed on the inside back cover.
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Home is Where the Heart is

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Back cover.

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