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Issue: Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book #[nn]
Publication Date: November 1986
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagKitchen Sink Press
Indicia Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 160
ISBN: 0878160213
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $35.00 CAD
$25.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Also sold in a signed version for 35.00 USD (49.00 CAD).
Second printing of hardcover: March 1988; 29.95 USD; 38.95 CAD.
All but seven pages were shot from the original art. The cover and pages 6, 11, 126, and 131 were shot from the original paperback. Pages 7 and 60 were shot from a French edition. (English word balloons may have been replaced by Harvey Kurtzman. It is not clear in the credits.) Word balloons on the original art had fallen into disrepair and were masked and touched up by Ray Fehrenbach, Jan Manweiler, and Paula Meyer. (All info from credits page.)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 6 3/4 in x 11 1/4 in
Paper Stock:  
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: graphic novel
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book

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FlagHarvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book #338 K published September 1959
 
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Inside front cover and first interior sheet are blank.
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
"There are jungles... and then there are JUNGLES." — H. Kurtzman 6/59 N.Y.C.
A swimming pool full of women as seen from the bottom of the pool.
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Full page panel from "Thelonius Violence Like Private Eye", minus the story text and with a Kurtzman quote in its place.
Respectfully Dedicated to...

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Subject Matter
humorous
Head shot of a cave man.
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Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book [or] Up from the Apes!

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Hand-lettered text only title page.
[untitled]

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Credits, including which pages were shot from original art and which came from other sources.
Table of Contents

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Table of Contents, with one small illustration taken from page five of "Decadence Degenerated" (art only)
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Blank page between "Table of Contents" and "Intro."
Intro

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Subject Matter
There are Geniuses ... and then there are Geniuses
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Hand-lettered introduction, dated "New York City, July 29, 1986."
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One blank page between Intro and Outro.
Outro

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Credits
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Thelonius Violence Like Private Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Thelonius Violence; Lolita Nabakov
Thelonius Violence is a new kind of detective, a jazz inspired detective.
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FlagHarvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book #338 K published September 1959
 
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One blank sheet between stories.
The Organization Man in the Grey Flannel Executive Suite

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Subject Matter
humorous
Goodman Beaver
Goodman Beaver
An idealistic young man is hired to work at an old Madison Avenue magazine company.
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FlagHarvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book #338 K published September 1959
 
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Goodman Beaver later would appear in Help!
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One blank sheet between stories.
Compulsion on the Range

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Subject Matter
humorous, western
Marshal Dollin; Johnny Ringding
Marshal Dollin chases the gunfighter Johnny Ringding across the old west.
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FlagHarvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book #338 K published September 1959
 
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Blank Pages

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One blank sheet between stories.
Decadence Degenerated

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Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
The folks of Rottenville learn a lesson about law and order.
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Last interior sheet and inside back cover are blank.
Wanted: Violation of Parody

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Subject Matter
Harvey Kurtzman (self-caricature)
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Back cover. A black and white parody "Wanted" poster of Harvey Kurtzman, along with quotes and promo for this printing of the book. Solid red background continued from cover border and spine. No other colors.

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