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Issue: The Big Book of Death #[nn]
Publication Date: July 1995
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Factoid Books; [Paradox Press]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Paradox Press
On Sale Date: 05/04/1995
Volume: none
Pages: 228
ISBN: 1563891662
UPC/EAN: 76194120361400111
Price: $17.95 CAD
$12.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 70 (67 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Letterers for interior sequences are listed as a group: Rod Ollerenshaw, Gail Beckett, Bob Lappan and Bob Pinaha. Unsure to exact sequence each did.

One of the seventeen Paradox Press series of Big Books:
1994 - The Big Book of Urban Legends
1995 - The Big Book of Death; The Big Book of Weirdos; The Big Book of Conspiracies;
1996 - The Big Book of Freaks; The Big Book of Little Criminals; The Big Book of Hoaxes; The Big Book of Thugs
1997 - The Big Book of Losers; The Big Book of The Unexplained; The Big Book of Martyrs; The Big Book of Scandal
1998 - The Big Book of Bad; The Big Book of the Weird Wild West
1999 - The Big Book of Vice; The Big Book of Grimm
2000 - The Big Book of the '70s
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 8 1/2 inches by 10 7/8 inches
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; matte interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: one-shot
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The Big Book of Death

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Introduction

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Foreword

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A Short History of Execution

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Decapitation

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A Visit with the Hanging Judge

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Firing Squad

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Old Sparky

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Capital Punishment - It's a Gas

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Lethal Injection

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Last Suppers

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Stupid Murders

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Look Out! It's the Killer Postmen!

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The Wide World of Death!

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Teen Suicide

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Suicide

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The Quality of Mercy

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The Right to Die

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They Call Him Dr. Death

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The Eggshell Skull

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Sickness Unto Death I: Black Death

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Sickness Unto Death II: Tuberculosis

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Sickness Unto Death III: Typhoid Mary

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Sickness Unto Death IV: The Future

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The Art of War

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Onward (Your Religion Here) Soldiers

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One-Way Ticket

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Spontaneous Human Combustion

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Weird Death I

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Weird Death II

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Weird Death III

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Weird Death IV

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Weird Death V

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Weird Death VI

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Weird Death VII

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Weird Death VIII

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Weird Death IX

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The Definition of Death?

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Anatomy of an Autopsy

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Embalming

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Six Feet Under

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The Watery Grave

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Cremation

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Mummification

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Cryonics: The Frozen Dead

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A Walking Tour of Highgate Cemetery

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Le Cimetière du Père Lachaise

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A Poetic Journey Through the Protestant Cemetery in Rome

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The Vienna Funeral Museum

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Greetings from Green-Wood Cemetery

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Forest Lawn

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Synopsis: History of Forest Lawn Cemetary in Hollywood Hills, CA.
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Where to Go

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Dead But Not Departed

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They Saved Sakharov's Brain

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The Disposal Dilemma

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You Are What You Eat

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Dead Love

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The Vampire!

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Are Zombies Real?

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Soccer: The Sport That Kills!

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From Cradle to Grave

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The Art of Death

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Heaven and Hereafter

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Dante Goes to Hell

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Near-Death Experiences

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Famous Last Words

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The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

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That Line Is Dead

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Mike Montaigne Looks at Death

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