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Issue: Itchy Planet #1
Publication Date: January 1988
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1988
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.40 CAD
$2.25 USD
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Content Items: 11 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: 1st printing: March 1988
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers, black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
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Crisis On Finite Earth

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Itchy Planet no. 1 Contents

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Reviews

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Brief reviews of "Witty World," "La Semana Comica," "PAX," "World War 3 Illustrated," "Barefoot Gen" and "Real War Stories." Accompanied by four spot illustrations taken from the respective publications.
Survey - AIDS Comics

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Brief reviews of the following AIDS-related comics: "The AIDS Plague," "AIDS is Looking for You," "Andrea and Lisa," "Safer Sex Comics" and "The Works: Drugs, Sex & AIDS." Includes five sample panels from the respective publications.
Pa•ra•dox

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Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan
Commentary on the paradoxes of having a nuclear arsenal as "deterrence."
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FlagThe Best Comics of the Decade #2 published July 1990
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Nuclear Winter

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Love and Boundaries, or, How I Learned That I Cold Push the Button

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from The Next War (text piece only)
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Accompanied by five small illustrations.
Look out! It's the Nuclear Family

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Debbie; Mom; Dad
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Television

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Text taken from Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985). Includes four spot illustrations.
Revival

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biography
Michael Dougan; Mom; Sunday School Teacher
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U.S. Comic Books & Nuclear War

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The history of nuclear war depictions in comic books. Includes twenty-six small images taken from various comic book sources.

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