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Issue: How Loathsome #1
Publication Date: January 2003
 
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Pages: 28
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Price: $4.50 CAD
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Content Items: 7 (2 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
Publishing Format: limited series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane; Comrade.Cid (cover design and layout)
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Subject Matter
How Loathsome
Catherine Gore
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Photograph portion of the cover wraps around to the back cover, which is otherwise blank.
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Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
typeset
Subject Matter
How Loathsome
Catherine Gore
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Miscellaneous
1
Gray reprint of the line art from the cover beside the credits and indicia.
Catherine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Tristan Crane; Ted Naifeh
Subject Matter
How Loathsome
Catherine Gore (introduction); Nick (introduction); Chloe (introduction)
Nick drags Catherine to an S/M play party where they meet Chloe, to whom they are both attracted.
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The six-page story "The Woods" appears between the 8th and 9th pages of this story, as if reflecting Catherine's dream as she and Chloe sleep.
The Woods

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ted Naifeh [as Catherine Gore]; Tristan Crane [as Catherine Gore]
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Tristan Crane; Ted Naifeh
Subject Matter
How Loathsome
Catherine Gore
A young version of Catherine is growing up in a one room shack with her widower father and her golden-haired sister Lillian. The adventurous Lillian gets lost in the wood one night, and once found sickens and dies. Catherine is haunted by a ghostly vision of Lillian, and when her father gives her his cross necklace, he, too, wastes away and dies.
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Miscellaneous
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Falls between pages 8 and 9 of the main story, while Catherine and Chloe sleep.
Don't Miss These!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Oddballz #6; Dungeon #5
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Miscellaneous
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Free Comic Book Day

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Fear of Loathing

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Ted Naifeh; Tristan Crane
Subject Matter
How Loathsome
Ted, Tristan and Catherine talk about the sort of people they show in the book, and offer a toast to them.
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Miscellaneous
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Also includes some acknowledgments from Tristan Crane and a teaser for the next issue, including a small preview of a page of artwork. The title is the one used in later issues as this becomes a letters page.

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