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Issue: The Tick: The Complete Edlund #[nn]
Publication Date: December 2008
 
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Publisher: FlagNew England Comics
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Indicia Publisher: New England Comics Press
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 420
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 68946606708800001
Price: $35.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 60 (24 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7.25 in. x 10.25 in.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Ninjas
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Title Page & Credits

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Character(s): The Tick; Arthur
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Introduction

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Arachnida

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Table of Contents

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First Sketch

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
First Line: Men call me the Tick.
Synopsis: The Tick breaks out of the Minnesota Community Clinic and sets out to become a vigilante.
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Tick

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick (introduction); Clark Oppenheimer (introduction); Ninjas
First Line: Bored...
Synopsis: The Tick arrives straight from the nuthouse and into The City where he decides to be a superhero. After having a tussle with ninjas and being run over by a train, he is no closer to realizing his lofty goals.
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How to Draw The Tick

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
Synopsis: One page art lesson on how to draw The Tick with accompanying oval.
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Mack Trail

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Mack Trail; The Tick
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Disclose Notes: Done as a parody of a nature strip about ticks.
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Pin-Up Page

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
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Tick #1 Back Cover

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Clark Oppenheimer
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High Rise Hijinx

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Caped Wonder [Clark Oppenheimer]
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Pages: 30
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Epilogue

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Genres: espionage, humorous, superhero
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The Tick & Paul the Samurai

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Paul the Samurai
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus; Ninjas
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Night of a Million-Zillion Ninja

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus [Oedipus Ashley Stevens]; Reginald Stevens; Amanda Stevens; Shing (Flashback); Ninjas; The District Manager
Synopsis: Tick tries to help Oedipus keep the Thorn of Oblivion out of the hands of a horde of Ninja (even though she stole it from them in the first place), but they get trapped in Oedipus' house and forced to attend her parent's dinner party.
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The Tick #3 Back Cover

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Character(s): Arthur
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The Plot Thicks...

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Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus; Arthur; Paul the Samurai; Sagin
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A Big Fight

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus [Oedipus Ashley Stevens]; Arthur; Paul the Samurai; Reginald Stevens; Amanda Stevens; Shing; Ninjas; The District Manager; Sagin
Synopsis: Tick and Oedipus are attacked at her parents' dinner party by a group of ninjas. After Oedipus is injured, Tick has a crisis of sanity and decides the best thing to do is destroy Ninja World, which he does, Conflict ensues over the Thorn of Destiny and Tick comes close to losing it until Arthur shows up to make sense of a few things, Paul the Samurai trails his enemy Sagin from Japan and prepares to take him down with a loaf of deadly French bread.
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The Tick #4 Back Cover

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Character(s): The Tick
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Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Paul the Samurai; Ninjas
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Early Morning of a Million Zillion Ninjas

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus [Oedipus Ashley Stevens]; Arthur; Paul the Samurai; Reginald Stevens; Amanda Stevens; Ninjas; The District Manager; Sagin (Death)
Synopsis: The Tick, Paul and Arthur prepare to battle a million zillion ninjas but end up facing only one. Arthur becomes Tick's sidekick.
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Travel Log

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Penciller(s): Jim Young (photos); Aaron Young (photos)
Inker(s): Jim Young (photos); Aaron Young (photos)
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
Synopsis: The Tick describes his trip to Europe.
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Free Pin-Up! It's Fun!

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Character(s): The Tick
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; The Running Guy; The Red Scare
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Villans Inc.

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): FEATURE: The Tick; GUESTS: Arthur; The Running Guy; VILLAIN: The Red Scare
Synopsis: The Running Guy tries to stage a mock battle with The Red Scare to make his reputation as a hero but The Tick intervenes and ruins the deal.
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The Tick #6 Back Cover

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Character(s): The Tick; Angus MacGuire
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Epilogue

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Clark Oppenheimer; Oedipus; Brachiating Man; District Manager; Whirling Dervishes; Red Scare; Mucilage Man
Synopsis: The Tick goes on patrol and meets Brachiating Man. Brachiating Man suggests that by combining forces they could eliminate crime. The Tick is only interested in fighting crime, not eliminating it.
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Character(s): The Tick; Angus MacGuire; Man-Eating Cow
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The Moon Menace

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Angus MacGuire; Man-Eating Cow; Chairface Chippendale; Zipperneck; The Crease; Harriet Curse; Eyebrows Smith; Boils Brown; Boris Saint-Vladmirovotch; The Forehead; Pineapple Pokopo; Mr. Planters; Devon Ugly; The Cleft; Professor Chromedome; The-Guy-That-Looks-Just-Like-Peter-Lorre
Synopsis: Sallying forth on a quest for Pez, The Tick ends up helping a gum-shoe detective take on a bevy of hideous criminals as well as a pit full of man-eating alligators and cows, all in a bid to keep their leader, Chairface Chippendale, from writing his name on the moon. The Tick adopts his infamous and little plagarized battle cry--"SPOON!"
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Sketch

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
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The Tick #7 Back Cover

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Character(s): The Tick; Arthur
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Character(s): The Tick; Arthur
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A Matter of Cosmic Import... And Other Stories...

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Man-Eating Cow; Red Eye; Dr. Edward Robelord; Dot; Two Goons
Synopsis: The Tick is struck on the head with what looks to be a meteor but turns out to be sediment from Utah. Arthur and Tick have dinner with Art's sister, but their repast is interrupted by two goons shooting at them. After Man-Eating Cow lends a...uh...an udder in dispatching the villains, Tick decides that he and Arthur will leave for New York to fight real crime and leave their bovine companion to patrol The City in their stead. Tick reads.
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Red Eye

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Character(s): Red Eye
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The Tick #8 Back Cover

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Character(s): Chainsaw Vigilante
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Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Chainsaw Vigilante
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Road Trip

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Mystic Order of Arachnid Vigilance Members; Chainsaw Vigilante; Civic-Minded Five [Oddman; Mr. Envelope; Feral Boy; Radio King]
Synopsis: The Tick and Arthur prepare to leave The City but are accosted by the Tick's fellow escaped insane asylum inmates who have come to worship him. Arthur drives and the Tick navigates as the duo head for New York but our hero has a little trouble with the map (starting with the fact that it is a 1959 edition). After countless miles of driving all over creation, Arthur insists that they do the unthinkable--ask for directions. The Chainsaw Vigilante cuts his way through the rest of the Civic-Minded Five and sets his sights on the Tick and Arthur.
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The Tick #9 Back Cover

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Character(s): The Tick; Chainsaw Vigilante
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; The Monolith; Crazed Villagers
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Some Obstacles and a Partial Resolution

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Chainsaw Vigilante; Red Eye; The Monoloth; Crazed Villagers; Portugese Man-O-War; Jelly Boy
Synopsis: Tick wraps up his battle with Chainsaw Vigilante and he and Arthur hit the road again. Tick discovers that his meteor is inhabited by tiny aliens. Arthur picks up the nefarious hitchhiker Red Eye and Tick tries to annoy him enough that he will leave the car without killing them. Pulling into Monolith, Kentucky, our heroes are captured by villagers who want to put them through gruesome scientific experimentation at the behest of the, well, of the big Monoloth that resides in the town.
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Agrippa; The Tick [Barry Hubris]; Arthur; Fish Boy
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Two Strange Warm Men and the City of Their Dreams

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Ricardo; Anvil; Deviled Man; Agrippa; Bouncer; El Flamingo; Blind Devil; Skateboard Viking; Hand-Drill Harry; Friendly Fire; Four-Legged Man; Hand Grenade Man; The Ant; Fishboy; Six-Gun; The Tick [Barry Hubris]; Thrakkorzog
Synopsis: The Tick and Arthur finally make it to New York City only to find it is completely overpopulated by super heroes. They meet Agrippa who takes them to his favorite club. While Arthur is forced to hang out in the sidekick's lounge, Agrippa introduces the Tick to some of his colleagues. Unfortunately, one of his colleagues is violent, crazy and also calling himself the Tick. The Tick battles the Tick for the rights to use the name and, wouldn't you know it, the Tick wins.
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The Tick #11 Back Cover

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; The Tick [Barry Hubris]
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One Man's Treasure... Is Another Man's Treasure

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Tri-State Super-Hero Congress; Barry Hubris; Host; The Terror; Multiple Santa; Mr. Tragedy; The Fuzzy Person; Tuun-La
Synopsis: Having defeated Barry for the right to use the super hero name "The Tick," it is determined that the Tick is also entitled to his base of operations and all of his equipment. As the Tick and Arthur move into the Tick Cave underneath Barry's mansion, their opponent turned host hatches a devious plan. When our heroes head out to investigate nefarious happenings at Brenda Industries, Barry calls his rogues gallery and tells them all about his new look, his new sidekick and where he can be found.
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Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Multiple Santa
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; She-Moth; Agrippa; Blind Devil; Skateboard Viking; Hand-Drill Harry; Friendly Fire; Four-Legged Man; Hand Grenade Man; The Ant; Fishboy; Six-Gun; Miss Thang; Many More; Barry Hubris; The Terror; Multiple Santa; Mr. Tragedy; The Fuzzy Person; Tuun-La
First Line: Uh - Tick?
Synopsis: Set up by Barry, the Tick and Arthur investigate Brenda Industries only to find a cabal of deadly villains lying in wait for them, and a battle ensues. Meanwhile, back at the Comet Club, Barry shows up in his old costume and brags that he has taken care of his little Tick problem. With the smell of villainous perfidy in the air, almost every hero in New York heads out to help the Tick. With hundreds of heroes stealing their glory, the Tick and Arthur feel that New York is overpopulated with vigilant protectors and decide to head back to the City.
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Pin-Up

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Red Eye; Sultan
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I Had a Bad Day

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Barbara Stanwyck; Doctor Zachary Smith
Synopsis: The Tick recalls his worst nightmare, which includes being chased by the cast of The Big Valley, his plumbing backed up by "some kinda Cthulu deal," and being stuck on a bus next to Lost in Space's Doctor Smith.
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Cephelopoda

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick
Synopsis: The Tick is abruptly attacked by Cephalopods.
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The Worser Scrape

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): The Tick; Arthur; Santa Claus; Darth Vader
Synopsis: The Tick is in prison, but reminds Arthur they've been in worse trouble, such as when they had to save Santa Claus from Darth Vader. Arthur reminds the Tick that never actually happened.
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Perfect Place

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Genres: anthropomorphic, horror
Character(s): Yogi Bear; Boo-Boo
Synopsis: In the aftermath of nuclear war, the intelligent bears Yogi and Boo-Boo rule over the remnants of humanity.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Originally released as an insert.
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fear-Filled Facts!
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Feature(s): New England Comics
First Line: Can't get to a comic shop?
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