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Issue: American Splendor: Music Comics #[nn]
Publication Date: November 1997
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 6156897513
Price: $4.15 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Diana Schutz (editor); Davey Estrada (assistant editor); Mike Richardson (publisher)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: One-Shot
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Music Comics

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; man
First Line: I can give you four L.P.s of your choice or $50 for that art ensemble album
Synopsis: Harvey is trading L.P.s with another man
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Your search for the Heart and Soul of America ends here!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Images and information about various American Splendor comics published by Dark Horse.
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Introduction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar
First Line: Hey, music lovers...
Synopsis: Harvey explains that this comic contains a collection of comics he has written (mostly about music) since 1990, many of them previously published in other magazines.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; Aaron
First Line: The way I got into jazz was weird.
Synopsis: How Harvey got into jazz.
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My Career Begins

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Ira Gitler; Harvey Pekar; Fats Navarro; Martin Williams
First Line: Back in the summer of '59 I was really at loose ends.
Synopsis: How Harvey's jazz writing career started.
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Pages: 2
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A Story About a Review

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; Fats Navarro; Jabbo Smith; Django Reinhardt; Tristano
First Line: The first writing I ever had published was about jazz.
Synopsis: A continuation of the story of Harvey's jazz criticism career
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Jazz Review; Downbeat; jazz; Northern Ohio Live
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Slim Gaillard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Slim Gaillard; Slam Stuart; Cab Calloway; Dizzy Gillespie; Chuck Berry; Charlie Christian; Billy Eckstine; Count Basie; Jack Kerouac
First Line: Slim Gaillard could play a lot of instruments and was a "solid" Charlie Christian-influenced guitarist, but above all he was one of jazz's great comic vocalists.
Synopsis: An appreciation of jazz musician and vocalist Slim Gaillard.
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Jabbo Smith

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; Jabbo Smith; Milt Hinton; Dizzy Gillespie; Louis Armstrong; Roy Eldridge; Henry Allen; Duke Ellington; Fats Waller; Charlie Johnson; King Oliver; Jelly Roll Morton
First Line: Jazz Archives has just released a two-CD set by Jabbo Smith containing almost all of his 1927–1938 recorded work.
Synopsis: An appreciation of jazz trumpeter Jabbo Smith.
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Sheila Jordan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Sheila Jordan; Harvey Pekar; Cade Bursell; Charlie Parker; Duke Jordan; George Russell; Harvey Swartz
First Line: "I don't care what I have to do."
Synopsis: A biography and appreciation of jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan.
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Bill DeArango Remembers 52nd St.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; Bill DeArango; Morey Feld; Don Byas; Bob Crosby; Billy Butterfield; Ben Webster; Dizzy Gillespie; Sarah Vaughn, Red Norvo; Charlie Ventura; Kenny Werner
First Line: "When I was discharged from the army in 1944. I moved to New York."
Synopsis: Jazz guitarist Bill DeArango tells how he got started.
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Teo Macero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; Teo Macero; John Lewis; Orlando Di Girolamo; Lenny Di Jay; Lester Young; Stan Getz; Albert Ayler; John Coltrane; Charlie Mingus; Mitch Miller; Miles Davis; Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk; J. J. Johnson; Andre Kostelanetz; Lionel Hampton; John Zorn; Dave Douglas; Anthony Coleman; Roy Nathanson; Mark Ribot; Michael Dorf; Artie Shaw
First Line: For over 25 years I've been going around with snatches of Teo Macero's music in my head...
Synopsis: A biography of jazz musician Teo Macero, who later became an A&R man.
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Sun Ra

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Sun Ra; Harvey Pekar; Albert Ayler
First Line: In 1974, after visiting a buddy of mine in Chicago, I took a bus from there back to Cleveland.
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Out of Williamsburg

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; Joe Maneri; Paul Bley; George Russell; Josef Schmid; Alban Berg; Eric Leinsdorf; Gunther Schuller; Hankus Netsky; Ornette Coleman; John Coltrane; Matt Maneri; David Buchbinder
First Line: Let me introduce Joe Maneri, a guy who 35 years ago, maybe earlier, was playing like the new musicians of today.
Synopsis: A biography of, and appreciation for, jazz musician Joe Maneri.
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A Rose for Greg Selker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; Hankus Netsky; Greg Selker; Frank London; Don Byron
First Line: So Hankus Netsky, who was, like, a student teacher, plays me a big stack of 78s he founds in his uncle's attic.
Synopsis: Greg Selker tells Harvey about his origins as a jazz musician and what he's been up to recently.
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It Seems Like Only Yesterday

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Robert Crumb; Harvey Pekar; Victor Moscoso; Alan Freed; The Who; Magic Sam; James Cotton; Muddy Waters; Alberto Gianquinto; The Beatles; Pete Townsend; John Entwhistle; Roger Daltrey; Keith Moon
First Line: My friend Robert Crumb lived in Cleveland off and on from 1962 to 1966.
Synopsis: When Harvey visited San Francisco in 1968 and saw a great show at The Fillmore featuring The Who.
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Compromise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Pekar
Penciller(s): Joe Sacco
Inker(s): Joe Sacco
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Sacco
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Harvey Pekar; jazz critic; Wynton Marsalis; George Shearing; Kenny G
First Line: "I agree with you that Wynton Marsalis's composition is derivative and vastly overrated..."
Synopsis: Harvey debates with another jazz critic about the merits of Wynton Marsalis
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