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Issue: Itchy Planet #2
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: 16 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Comics Warp Our Vision

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Editorial

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Leonard Rifas
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Itchy Planet number 2

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Table of contents, production credits and indicia with two small-size images of Ethiopian wall stencils. A brief side note indicates that the topic for the (never-published) fourth issue was to have been "Green Cities."
Travelling Exhibit Celebrates Universal Power of Art and Humor

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Announces a travelling exhibition between Soviet and American cartoonists. Includes three unsigned images.
Reviews

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Reviews of "Tales from the Heart" (Cindy Goff, Rafael Nieves, Seitu Hayden (Entropy Enterprises)) and "Streetwise," an Australian comics series. Includes small full-page samples of each. Also briefly mentions Michigan State University's "Comic Art Collection" newsletter
Mini • Forum

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The Avenger; Blindeye the Sailor
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Letters from Kjartan Arnorsson (Allston, MA) and Donnie Jupiter (Sacramento, CA). Includes a complete comic story from each - "The Avenger Who Has a Message of Hope" and "Blindeye the Sailor Man in the Persian Gulf"
Duopoly

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Little Lulu (unnamed single-panel silent cameo); Plastic Man (unnamed single-panel cameo); Superman; Harvey Kurtzman (small-size caption illustration); Captain Marbles; Superduperman; Spider-Man; Gardner Fox; The Shadow (single-panel cameo); Batman; Art Young (single-panel silent cameo); Tom Yeates (single-panel silent cameo); J. Jonah Jameson; Peter Parker; Ruby the Girl Wonder
A critique of the mainstream comic book industry.
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Novice in a Comics Shop

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The Image of Arabs in U.S. Comic Books

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Criticizes the rampant racist depictions of Arabs in the U.S. mainstream comic book scene.
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Includes fourteen small-size sample comic panels. Some of the identifiable artists from these are Hergé (from a Tintin story), Jim Aparo and Basil Wolverton. Stories explicitly identified as having racist elements are "Lois' Dream Scoop!" from Superman Family #198, "Prison of the Mind" from Weird War Tales #83, "The Foreign Legion Hare" from Four Color #407, "Checkmate" from Action Comics #598 and "Wild Rose" from Punisher #7 (March 1988).
Busted

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Joyce Farmer; Undercover Cop; Mild-Mannered Academic; Pregnant Wife; Reporter; Evie; A.C.L.U. Attorney
Joyce recounts the legal difficulties she faced after Tits & Clits #1 was published.
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FlagThe Best Comics of the Decade #2 published July 1990
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Sexism in Comics - The Conspiracy of Regurgitation

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Dick; Jane
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The Mongrel Dog is Free!

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humorous
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Kick That Habit Maan

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Marc Campos; Marc's Wife
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Meanwhile: Down in the Meadow

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anthropomorphic, humorous
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FlagGreatest Diggs of All Time #[nn] published January 1991
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1988: Ethiopian Famine Returns to the Headlines

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Criticizes Marvel & DC's "Heroes for Hope" and "Heroes Against Hunger" famine relief comic books
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Dog Jaw!

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Rupert Murdoch
Dog Boy bites Murdoch and sets on fire a few executives from New World Pictures, Inc.
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