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Issue: Blab! #9
Publication Date: January 1997
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 1997
Volume: none
Pages: 116
ISBN: 156097284X
UPC/EAN: 978156097284651895
Price: $25.95 CAD
$19.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 25 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color with some Black & White
Dimensions: 10" x 10" (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm)
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Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Blab 9

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Miscellaneous
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Dogs

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Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Accompanied by production credits and indicia and several Archer Prewitt background illustrations.
The Prestigious Blanket

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Priscilla

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Priscilla
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12
Double for Danger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Steven
Steven; Boss
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12
Valse Mecanique (The Mechanical Waltz)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Maria
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FlagNew & Used Blab! #[nn] published January 2003
as Valse Mecanique (The Mechanical Waltz) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
Dirty Boulevard

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Crack Baby; Clocker Girl; Shooter; Crank Bug; The Fixer; The Snitch; The Boy Drug
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Miscellaneous
7
Seven illustrations drawn on lined grade school-type paper. The titles are the same as the character names.
Enjoy or Suffer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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FlagNew & Used Blab! #[nn] published January 2003
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Goodnight Irene

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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FlagNew & Used Blab! #[nn] published January 2003
 
Miscellaneous
3
Three full-page paintings
The Quiet Man

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
9
Accompanied by four full-page illustrations- one by Mucha and three by Campbell.
The Fighting Poets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
autobiography, biography
Fred Toote'
Spain Rodriguez; Helen; Jocko Reese; Fred Toote'; Goose Mundain; Shelly; Tex
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FlagCruisin' with the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote' #[nn] published April 2012
 
Miscellaneous
9
New Version of Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
1
Park

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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4
In the Land of Plenty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Harry
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6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Snoot Grolo
Snoot Grolo; Pal; Jill; Wild Bill Hickok; Snoot's Mom
Bang! Bang! Pal! I got one! Dinner is in the bag! I know. You want your rock salt!
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4
Exorcise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
autobiography, biography
Peter Kuper; Wilton; Linda Blair (cameo)
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4
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Sof' Boy
Sof' Boy
Zzzzzzz Zzzzzaaww
A drunk man urinates and vomits on Sof' Boy while he sleeps in an alleyway.
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Miscellaneous
4
The Art of the Dell Mystery

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Miscellaneous
4
Accompanied by nineteen images of Dell mass market paperbacks.
Late Night Walk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Little Baby Gumba
Baby Gumba; Whore; Pimp
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Miscellaneous
1
Tales of Tomorrow Number Eight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Tales of Tomorrow
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FlagAcme Novelty Library #15 published January 2001
as Number Eight [Story on Interior Page(s)]
in Chicago Newcity (January 1, 1998)
Miscellaneous
2
The first few lines in the story are "Hey Fellas! Wouldn't you like to know how to play banjo? It's easy!"
The Nostalgia Rapist

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Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Text is accompanied by a single full-page painting.
Boris Artzybasheff - Visual Thunder: A Retrospective

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Credits
typeset
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FlagNew & Used Blab! #[nn] published January 2003
 
Miscellaneous
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A brief text piece is accompanied by the following illustrations: "Modern War Machines;" "Spring Forming Presses;" "The Red Mill;" "The Witches' Sabbath;" "Hydraulic Press;" "Tapping a Heat of Steel;" "The Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden;" "Weaving a Fence Fabric;" "Making of Steel: Charging the Open Hearth;" "The Blooming Mill."
Parking receipt: Not valid Unless Stamped. Not a Claim Check

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
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A mixed media montage piece combining newspaper, painting, advertising cutouts and other flotsam
Blab #9

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back cover

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