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Issue: Comic Book Comics #1
Publication Date: March 2008
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues
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Publisher: FlagEvil Twin Comics
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Indicia Publisher: Evil Twin Comics
On Sale Date: 03/05/2008
Volume: none
Pages: 44
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UPC/EAN: 649241852124
Price: $3.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, non-fiction
Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
Character(s): The Yellow Kid; Max Fleischer; Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster
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Pages: 1
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Legalese!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
Character(s): Koko the Clown
Synopsis: Illustrated list of trademarks & copyrights featured in the issue.
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Funnies Get Famous

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Genres: humorous, non-fiction
Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
Character(s): James Sweeney; Josef Noa; Rudolf Charousek; The Yellow Kid; Richard F. Outcault; William Randolph Hearst; Henry Conway "Bud" Fisher; Winsor McCay; Little Nemo; Gertie the Dinosaur; Max Fleischer; Waldemar Klaempffert; Koko the Clown
Synopsis: Traces the origins of comic art, including the Outcault's Yellow Kid and McCay's Little Nemo, plus how the animation work of Max Fleischer grew up contemporaneously.
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Amazing Spicy Science Mystery Stories!

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Genres: humorous, non-fiction
Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
Character(s): Frank A. Munsey; Hugo Gernsback; Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster; Friedrich Nietzsche
Synopsis: Recounts the rise of pulp magazine adventures and how they inspired young Jack Kirby and Jerry Siegel, leading to Kirby's employment by Max Fleischer.
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Toon Feud

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Genres: humorous, non-fiction
Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
Character(s): Koko the Clown; Max Fleischer; Jerry Siegel; Carole Lombard; Bimbo
Synopsis: Recounts Kirby's time employed by Max Fleischer and how Fleischer originally found more success than Disney by being cost-conscientious, but Fleischer's labor troubles and Disney's success with Snow White saw Disney eclipse Fleischer before the end of the 1930s.
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New Action Fun

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Genres: humorous, non-fiction
Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
Character(s): Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster; Joe Simon; Maxwell C. Gaines; The Yellow Kid; Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; Henri Duval; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Bob Kane; Harry Donenfeld; Victor Fox; Will Eisner
Synopsis: Explores the creation of Superman and the beginning of Kirby's career in comic books.
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Pages: 12
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World's Greatest Comic Book Collection!

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Genres: non-fiction
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Bonus!

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Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
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Disclose Notes: First page of "Crime Oh Man, Does it Pay!" from Awesome: The Indie Spinner Rack Anthology (Evil Twin Comics, 2007) #[nn].
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Red More Comics - Get More Smarter

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Feature(s): Action Philosophers!
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Feature(s): Comic Book Comics
First Line: You Only Think You Know Comics History!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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