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Issue: World War 3 Illustrated #14
Publication Date: January 1991
 
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 132
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 39 (28 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Peter Kuper; Seth Tobocman; Sabrina Jones; Scott Cunningham
Disclose Notes: Published some time after February-March 1991 judging from some of the signed artist dates contained in the stories.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers, Black & White Interiors #1-35; Mostly Black & White with Occasional Color #36 & up
Dimensions: Standard US Magazine Size #1-39; 7" x 11" (17.78 cm x 27.94 cm) #40 & up
Paper Stock: Newsprint #1-39 ?
Binding: Saddle-Stitched #1-11; #13-38; Perfect Bound #12; #39 & up
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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New World Empire

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
?
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ingar Westburg
Ingar Westburg (painted)
Ingar Westburg (painted)
typeset
Subject Matter
"A thousand points of light" ... Always wondered what that meant, until the night of January 16th when those thousand points of light were exploding over Baghdad.
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Accompanied by a brief text piece
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Contents Issue #14

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Bombs Away

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: 1979-2014 #[nn] published January 2014
FlagHeavy Metal Magazine v15 #4 published September 1991
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FlagBleeding Heart #2 published March 1992
as Bombs Away [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics #[nn] published September 1995
as Bombs Away [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSpeechless #[nn] published January 2001
as Bombs Away [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Foreign Policy Song

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sandy Jimenez
Sandy Jimenez (ink only ?)
Sandy Jimenez
Sandy Jimenez
Subject Matter
Shit House Poet
Sandy Jimenez; Best Friend
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The Following Are Quotes From U.S. Troops in the Persian Gulf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman ?; Karen Elliot
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
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This and the following sequence are titled "Quotes from Soldiers and Their Families" in the table of contents
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The Following Are Quotes From Relatives of Soldiers in the Gulf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman ?; Karen Elliot
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
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Spoils of War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Andrew Paquette
Andrew Paquette
Andrew Paquette
Andrew Paquette
Subject Matter
Guide
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"Note: This story is based on a dream experience by the artist on September 4, 1990"
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How the U.S. Won the War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman ?; Karen Elliot
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
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Titled "Bronx Troops" in the table of contents
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Prediction: New World Empire

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Eqbal Ahmad
Peter Kuper (stencil); Scott Cunningham; Seth Tobocman; Eric Drooker (scratchboard ?); Sabrina Jones (stencil); Irene Ledwith
Peter Kuper (stencil); Scott Cunningham; Seth Tobocman; Eric Drooker (scratchboard ?); Sabrina Jones (stencil); Irene Ledwith
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Subject Matter
Saddam Hussein; George Herbert Walker Bush
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Accompanied by seven illustrations of varying sizes. Cunningham contributes a continuous strip that runs on the bottom of each page
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World Word Lie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
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Title from the table of contents.
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New World Order- Same Old George

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Rick Scanlan ?
Stephen Kroninger (photo collage)
Stephen Kroninger (photo collage)
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Subject Matter
Norman Schwarzkopf (photo); George Herbert Walker Bush (photo)
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Accompanied by three photo collages of varying sizes
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U.N. for Sale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Subject Matter
George Herbert Walker Bush; Mikhail Gorbachev; Hussein of Jordan
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Title from the table of contents. The first line of dialogue is "Bush went to the United Nations to buy an international coalition."
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[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Debra DeSalvo
Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
typeset
Subject Matter
What are the motherfuckers with no lips doing tonight?
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A text piece accompanied by a single illustration. Titled "Opening Day" in the table of contents.
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Euphoria

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
James Romberger
James Romberger
James Romberger (stencil ?)
Subject Matter
George Herbert Walker Bush; Norman Schwarkopf; Dick Cheney; Bart Simpson
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Another Day, Another Petro-Dollar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Kathryn Hyatt
Kathryn Hyatt
Kathryn Hyatt
Kathryn Hyatt
Subject Matter
Kathryn Hyatt; Sue; Pat; Brent Scowcroft (photo); George Herbert Walker Bush (photo)
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A Pax on Both Choices

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Polonoff
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
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The War Game ...Who Wins?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Trina Robbins (signed)
Trina Robbins (signed)
Trina Robbins (signed)
Trina Robbins (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Woman Soldier
An anti-war mock board game
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FlagFanny #1 published January 1991
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The Bridge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman ?; Scarlett Letter
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Subject Matter
Scarlett Letter ?; Reporter; High Driver; Melissa
A anti-Gulf War protester recounts what happened to her on the night of January 19, 1991 in NYC.
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In the New World Order, Those Who Refuse to Kill Are Criminals / Support the Real Heroes of the Gulf War

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Hands Off
Hands Off (photo)
Hands Off (photo)
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A text article accompanied by a blown-up image of the back of a dollar bill. Titled "Hands Off" in the table of contents
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The City and the War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
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Power Myth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Cheap Art; George Herbert Walker Bush
Cheap Art (ink only ?)
Cheap Art
Cheap Art
Subject Matter
Connie Chung (photo); Robert MacNeil (photo); Mary Hart (photo); Tom Brokaw (photo); Jim Lehrer (photo)
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Text from George Herbert Walker Bush's January 1991 State of the Union address is incorporated with drawn comic panels and images from American TV news broadcasts
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Foreign Policy Song #2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sandy Jimenez
Sandy Jimenez (ink only ?)
Sandy Jimenez
Sandy Jimenez
Subject Matter
Shit House Poet
Sandy Jimenez; George Herbert Walker Bush
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman ?; Peggy Smith
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Subject Matter
No neighborhood in the U.S. has more troops in the Gulf than the Bronx.
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Titled "Our Glorious Crusade" in the table of contents
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Hypewarhypestyle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed)
Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed) (ink only ?)
Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed)
Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pepgirlz
Pepgirlz [Sledgehammer Sue; Kali Maler]
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Back Issues

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Ad for back issues of "World War 3" with several images taken from previous covers
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Seth Tobocman; Tom Toles; Clayton Patterson; ?
Seth Tobocman; Tom Toles; Clayton Patterson; ?
typeset; ?
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Twenty-two mostly NYC-related ads: "The first thing we do let's kill at the lawyers. Except: Stanley L. Cohen, Attorney at Law" (full page); Dubois Trucking Art Moving & Installation; "The Portable Lower East Side" (subscription); Pressure Drop Press- "You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive;" "Moogy and the Rhythm Kings- Songs to Stomp the State To" (with a Tobocman illustration); "Hype Magazine" (subscription); Max.Fish; The Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory; Thomas Woodruff- Chromatic Aberration (P.P.O.W. Gallery); The Shadow underground newspaper; Todd's Copy Shop; Revolution Books; Context Studios; World War 3 Illustrated the Video (VHS documentary); Tompkins Square Park police riot video (with illustration from Patterson); "How to Squash a Squat" VHS offer; "Nowhere to Hide" VHS (with Tobocman illustration); "U.S. Wins Vietnam War" (a Cultural Correspondence leaflet with illustrations from Tobocman); Manhattan Comic News (with an illustration from Toles); World War 3 Anthology from Fantagraphics; East Side Bandits- "We Hold Up the Sky;" "House & the New World Order: Alternatives and Struggle in the 90s" (a conference)
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Subject Matter
Ronald Reagan [as "Pretty Boy" Reagan]; Ariel Sharon [as Ariel "Bugsy" Sharon]; Deng Xiaoping; Henry Kissinger; Mikhail Gorbachev; George Herbert Walker Bush; Saddam Hussein
1983: "Pretty Boy" Reagan overthrew Grenada.
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Titled "International Law" in the table of contents
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Out of My Past and Into Your Future

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
Subject Matter
Alien Metaphor
The Boy [E.T. Boy]; The She-Monkey Mom; The Alien; Big Female Gorilla; Jesus Christ
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics #[nn] published September 1995
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Seth Tobocman
Subject Matter
January 1991: The mass media reported that the Pentagon was using a new generation of "smart" bombs that would avoid hitting civilian targets.
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Titled "Smart Bombs" in the table of contents
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1991- The New World Order

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Beatrice Schafroth
Beatrice Schafroth
typeset
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper (signed)
Peter Kuper (signed)
Peter Kuper (signed)
Subject Matter
Dreams of Reason
Peter Kuper
At midnight on January 15th Saddam Hussein passed the deadline to pull out of Kuwait.
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FlagHeavy Metal Magazine v15 #6 published January 1992
as Dreams of Reason [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagBleeding Heart #2 published March 1992
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Dog Bite

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Irene Ledwith
Irene Ledwith
Irene Ledwith
Irene Ledwith
Subject Matter
Sarah; Sarah's Dog; The Boy
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics #[nn] published September 1995
as The Dog Bite [Story on Interior Page(s)]
from The Dog Bite (Nexus Press, 1988) #[nn]
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Eskimo Song

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Eric Drooker
Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
Subject Matter
Eskimo Hunter
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FlagHeavy Metal Magazine v15 #4 published September 1991
as Eskimo Song [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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"A true story of one who survived the cold.... alone"
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State of Shock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Kathryn Hyatt
Kathryn Hyatt
Kathryn Hyatt
Kathryn Hyatt
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Difficulty at the Beginning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robby Desmond, R. N.
Isabella Bannerman
Isabella Bannerman
Isabella Bannerman
Subject Matter
Joanie; Robby; The Midwife; Teenage Girl; Georgia
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics #[nn] published September 1995
as Difficulty at the Beginning [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Trees

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sabrina Jones
Sabrina Jones
Sabrina Jones
Sabrina Jones
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A wordless story
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Hurst
John Hurst
John Hurst
John Hurst
Subject Matter
George Herbert Walker Bush
My fellow Americans, the Iraqi army has been defeated.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?; Sabrina Jones
Sabrina Jones (painted)
Sabrina Jones (painted)
Sabrina Jones (painted)
typeset
Subject Matter
The issue is not driving. The issue is that here in Saudi Arabia, I exist as a person from the belly-button to the knees.
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FlagWorld War 3 Illustrated: 1979-2014 #[nn] published January 2014
 
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Back cover with a quote from a Saudi Arabian protestor

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