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Issue: Optimism of Youth: The Underground Work of Jack Jackson #[nn]
Publication Date: October 1991
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 1991
Volume:
Pages: 124
ISBN: 1560970677
UPC/EAN: 978156097067551295
Price: $15.50 CAD
$12.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 8.43" x 10.75" (21.4 cm x 27.3 cm)
Paper Stock:  
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: We won't get fooled again!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Underground Work of Jack Jackson

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title page
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Optimism of Youth: The Underground Work of Jack Jackson

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Title and publisher page includes a drawing taken from the final page of "The Intruder" story; publication, editorial and copyright credits pages included a blown-up panel from the "Gene Shuffle" story; table of contents page
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Gobs of Worms

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Roscoe; Armando; Melba
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From Content Item: FlagInsect Fear #3 published January 1972
was Gobs of Worms [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Devoured By His Own Fantasies

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Accompanied by small-size cover images of Skull #1, Slow Death #6 and a large blown-up panel from the "White Man's Burden" story
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The Vicious Recycle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Those Lovable Nitwits Kilroy & Yorlik
Character(s): Kilroy; Yorlik
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From Content Item: FlagSlow Death Funnies #1 [1st print red border] published April 1970
was The Vicious Recycle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Intruder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Antique Dealer; Professor
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From Content Item: FlagSkull #1 published March 1970
was The Intruder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Pussy Whipped!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, horror
Character(s): Chicken Itza; Pamela Pullybone; Pamela's Old Man; Black Bart; Gnome; Cretin
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From Content Item: FlagSkull #2 published September 1970
was Pussy Whipped! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Secret

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lieutenant; Captain
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From Content Item: FlagSlow Death #2 [2nd Printing, White Logo and Price] published ?
was The Secret [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Testicles the Tautologist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Fair Maiden; Priest; Syphilitic Leper; Testicles the Tautologist; Humperdink; Baby-Sister; Gestapocles
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From Content Item: FlagSkull #3 published November 1971
was Testicles the Tautologist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Light in the Distance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jaxon; Oscar; Nurse
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From Content Item: FlagUp from the Deep #1 published May 1971
was The Light in the Distance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Antique Dealer; Preacher Man; Preacher's Sister; Young Buck
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From Content Item: FlagUp from the Deep #1 published May 1971
was The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Gene Shuffle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gene Shuffle; Mommy; Son; Olga; Granny Damron
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From Content Item: FlagSlow Death #3 [1st Printomg, Pentagram Press Logo] published November 1971
was Gene Shuffle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Homesick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Hawkins; Bent-Head; Darlin' Lil; Pa; Johnny; Ted Hawkins; Irma Hawkins; Charlie
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From Content Item: FlagSlow Death #4 [1st Printing, 50ยข Cover Price] published November 1972
was Homesick [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Hound

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Billy Joe; St. John; The Hound
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From Content Item: FlagSkull #4 published May 1972
was The Hound [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Tales of the Leather Nun's Grandmother

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: erotica, fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Abdul Alhazared; Esmeralda; Dwarf; Cthulhu
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From Content Item: FlagTales from the Leather Nun #1 [unnamed variant] published September 1973
was Tales of the Leather Nun's Grandmother [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Death Rattle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Tecpatl; High Priest; Xibalba; Citla; Zipacna; Chimalca; Borgia; Huitziwoppa; Zapote
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From Content Item: FlagGrim Wit #2 published September 1973
was Death Rattle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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White Man's Burden

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): George; George's Wife; Chico; Jomo; Tonto; Chan; Young Whiteman
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From Content Item: FlagSlow Death #6 published January 1974
was White Man's Burden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: ...And then there's the one that almost got away.
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Pages: 1
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Sleeping Beauty and the Beast

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, fantasy
Character(s): Sleeping Beauty; Handsome Young Prince; Gnarl
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Previously unpublished. From 1978. Originally for a sex-themed Wallace Wood project that was cancelled by Last Gasp.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Jack Jackson takes pleasure in drawing the spectacular and the grotesque...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover includes a blown-up panel from the final page of "The Hound" story accompanied by a promo quote.

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