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Comics Journal (1977) comic books

  • Issue #151
    Comics Journal (1977) 151
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    Last call with Drew Friedman, artist and co-creator of Warts and All; Carl Barks sketchbook - never-before-seen drawings by comics' beloved 'Duck Man'; retailers speak out - a special forum on the ups and downs of selling comics; summer reading list; the best comic shops in America. Cover by Drew Friedman. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #152
    Comics Journal (1977) 152

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    Todd McFarlane tears Gary Groth's head off (or vice-versa) in an exclusive interview; the History of Marvel - Darcy Sullivan on the reality and fantasy of the 'official' version; comics creators (Alan Moore, Evan Dorkin and others) discuss the problems and pleasures of working for mainstream and alternative publishers; Chris Claremont - the deposed X-Men writer talks about his turbulent career. Cover by Todd McFarlane. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #153
    Comics Journal (1977) 153
    • Discounted from $13.00.

    Special Harvey Kurtzman issue. Interviews with Jack Davis, Kurtzman collaborator Byron Preiss, and an archived Kurtzman interview from 1965. Tributes by comics professionals. The New Two-Fisted Tales: advance preview. A rarely seen Kurtzman story. Plus reviews, comics, letters, and news. Cover by Davis. Black and white. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #154
    Comics Journal (1977) 154

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    Interview with Dan Clowes (Eightball); America's cartoon museums - up against the wall; the Fight for Dori Seda's Legacy by Leslie Sternbergh; hate crime - comic store burned in California; Hunt Emerson sketchbook. Cover by Dan Clowes. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #155
    Comics Journal (1977) 155
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    Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean - That's the Way to Do it; up from bubblegum - trading cards come of age; sneak previews of works-in-progress by Michael Dougan and Trina Robbins. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #156
    Comics Journal (1977) 156
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    Gahan Wilson interview; missing: the search for Zap #0; Mark Martin's tantalizing sketchbook; Penguin axes graphic novels line; interview with Steven creator Doug Allen. Cover by Gahan Wilson. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #157
    Comics Journal (1977) 157

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    Bill Griffith talks to Gary Groth about the early days of the underground, the pitfalls of fame and the ever-delayed Zippy movie deal; Kyle Baker sketchbook; Harvey Kurtzman tribute; readers' poll results. Cover by Bill Griffith. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #158
    Comics Journal (1977) 158
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    Interviews with Robert Crumb and editorial cartoonist Ed Sorel. A Jay Lynch sketchbook. Feminist views on Roberta Gregorys work. Plus reviews, comics, letters, and news. Cover by Sorel. Black and white; 96 pages. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #159
    Comics Journal (1977) 159

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    Interview with Peter Bagge. A Skip Williamson sketchbook. A collection of rock n roll album cover art from famous cartoonists. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Bagge. Black and white; 120 pages. Cover price $4.95.

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  • Issue #160
    Comics Journal (1977) 160

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    Black comic artists are featured. Interviews with Denys Cowan, Stan Shaw, Seitu Hayden and Ho Che Anderson; Trina Robbins looks at the work of Jackie Ormes; Grass Green sketchbook. Cover by Cowan, Shaw, Hayden and Anderson. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #161
    Comics Journal (1977) 161

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    Robert Williams interview - hi brow meets lo brow; Mark Newgarden talks about comics and Nancy; Richard Sala sketchbook; Mini-Malism returns; Tundra/Kitchen Sink - what really happened? Cover by Robert Williams. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #162
    Comics Journal (1977) 162

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    How much longer are we going to be able to stand all those autobiographical cartoonists - spotlight on Harvey Pekar, Seth, Noomin, Eichhorn, Brown and Matt; autobio timeline; satire; Bob Levin on Yummy Fur; Michael Netzer sues Neal Adams; Crisis of Infinite Marketing Gimmicks - Darcy Sullivan introduces the Moolahverse. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #163
    Comics Journal (1977) 163

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    Spotlight on Vertigo, featuring a Vertigo roundtable discussion; interviews with Neil Gaiman, Ted McKeever (The Extremist) and Terry LaBan (Cud). A Dave Sim sketchbook. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Chris Bachalo. Black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #164
    Comics Journal (1977) 164

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    Michael Allred and Jim Woodring interviews; Dave McKean sketchbook; Harlan Ellison Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #165
    Comics Journal (1977) 165

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    Interview with Matt Wagner; interview with Tom Tomorrow; Dan Burr sketchbook. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #166
    Comics Journal (1977) 166

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    The definitive Burne Hogarth interview; interview with Mary Fleener (Slutburger). The passing of Jack Kirby. Jill Thompsons sketchbook. The collapse of the speculator market. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Hogarth. Black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #167
    Comics Journal (1977) 167

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    Flip-book issue. Interview with Paul Mavrides; interview with Burne Hogarth - part 2; remembering Jack Kirby - reminiscences, tributes & commentary from Will Eisner, George Perez, Neil Gaiman, Paul Chadwick, Steve Rude, Chester Brown, Rick Veitch, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Jim Woodring, Marie Severin, Alan Moore, R.C. Harvey, Mark Schultz, Alex Toth, Richard Corben, Stan Lee and more; Kirby portrait by Jaime Hernandez. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #168
    Comics Journal (1977) 168

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    Interviews with Roberta Gregory (Naughty Bits) and Wendy & Richard Pini (ElfQuest); Guy Davis sketchbook. Covers by Gregory and Pini. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #169
    Comics Journal (1977) 169

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    Interview with Neil Gaiman; interview with Sol Harrison. Gaiman cover portrait by Michael Zulli. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #170
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    Mark Martin interview; Joe Coleman interview; Jack Kirby's legacy; seducing the innocent - teaching kids comics; DC editor Neal Pozner dies. Covers by Joe Coleman and Mark Martin. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #171
    Comics Journal (1977) 171

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    Clive Barker interview (with ghastly cover by Barker); Dame Darcy interview; Gary Groth compares Jim Shooter to Nixon (with ghastly flip-cover by Bill Willingham); comics' first move online in the days of CompuServe; Marvel vs. Comics Unlimited; Terry Gilliam sketchbook. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #172
    Comics Journal (1977) 172

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    Joe Kubert cover and interview; Paul Rivoche sketchbook Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #173
    Comics Journal (1977) 173

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    Jeff Smith interview (Bone); Martin Wagner interview (Hepcats); Ho Che Anderson (King, Black Dogs) sketchbook; Mike Diana interview; 'Superstar' minimalism; Marvel acquires Malibu; Mavrides issue analyzed. Cover by Jeff Smith. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #174
    Comics Journal (1977) 174


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    Article on Dave Sim with comments from Alan Moore, Seth, Rick Veitch, Steve Bissette and Chester Brown; Frank Frazetta interview. Cover of Sim by Bill Willingham. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #175
    Comics Journal (1977) 175

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    Rick Veitch interview; S. Clay Wilson interview; Don Martin sues Welsh; Critical Focus - Marvels; Fiore on Frank Miller. Cover by Rick Veitch. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #176
    Comics Journal (1977) 176

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    Grant Morrison interview; from Portland to Palestine - around the world with Joe Sacco; Marvelution - the art of the deal; Terry LaBan - a work in progress. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #177
    Comics Journal (1977) 177

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    EC Comics issue; interviews with George Evans, Al Feldstein, and Will Elder Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #178
    Comics Journal (1977) 178

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    David Levine interview; Neil Gaiman interviews Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #179
    Comics Journal (1977) 179

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    Interviews with Scott McCloud on when a pipe is not a pipe, Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), and Terry Zwigoff, director of the Crumb documentary. Readers Poll results. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by McCloud. Black and white. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #180
    Comics Journal (1977) 180

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    Art Spiegelman interview (part 1); selections from Spiegelmans sketchbook; Robert Crumb interviewed about the Crumb documentary; a discussion of Crumbs portrayal of women in his work. Front and back covers by Jeff Wong. Mature readers. Black and white; 144 pages. Cover price $6.95. Cover price $6.95.

  • Issue #181
    Comics Journal (1977) 181

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    Interviews with Belgian cartoonist Joost Swarte, Art Spiegelman, and an archived Stan Lee interview from 1968. Pro and con essays on Lees work and anecdotes from Eisner, Romita, Buscema, Sutton, Chadwick, Trimpe, Jaffee, Moench, Hernandez, LaBan, Mignola, Sim, and Fleener. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Drew Friedman. Black and white; 144 pages. Cover price $6.95.

  • Issue #182
    Comics Journal (1977) 182

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    Terry Gilliam - the acclaimed director discusses cartooning, Monty Python and making movies; Planet Comics busted - the complete story. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #183
    Comics Journal (1977) 183

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    Interviews with Joe Matt (Peep Show), Seth (Its a Good Life…), and part 1 of the Don Rosa (Uncle Scrooge) interview. A critical essay on Alan Moores 1990s absence from comics. Dave Coopers sketchbook. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Covers by Matt and Rosa. Black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #184
    Comics Journal (1977) 184

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    Interview with Dave Sim; interview with Don Rosa - part 2; Burne Hogarth is remembered by Gil Kane, Gary Groth, Pete Hamill and Kenneth Smith; tributes to Jerry Siegel. Covers by Dave Sim and Jaime Hernandez. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #185
    Comics Journal (1977) 185

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    Steve Bissette interviewed - Tundra, Tyrant, Taboo. Cover by Bissette. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #186
    Comics Journal (1977) 186
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    Interviews with Gil Kane, on an oral history of comics, and post-punk cartoonist Kaz. A critical essay on Frank Frazetta. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Covers by Kaz and Marie Severin. Black and white; 144 pages. Cover price $6.95.

  • Issue #187
    Comics Journal (1977) 187

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    Interviews with Gilbert Shelton on life in France, Gil Kane (cont. from #186) and lumberjack/cartoonist Bus Griffiths. Kingdom Come reviewed. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Shelton. Black and white; 120 pages. Cover price $5.95. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #188
    Comics Journal (1977) 188

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    Scott McCloud, Kurt Busiek, Dan Clowes, Neil Gaiman, Drawn & Quarterlys Chris Oliveros, and many others discuss their thoughts on The State of the Art Form. Self-publishers and Young Cartoonists roundtables. Bob Fingermans sketchbook. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Covers by David Mazzucchelli and Ivan Brunetti. Black and white; 152 pages. Cover price $6.95. Cover price $6.95.

  • Issue #189
    Comics Journal (1977) 189

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    Mike Mignola interviewed - Hell (boy) and back; Diamond buys Capital - complete news coverage. Hellboy cover by Mignola. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #190
    Comics Journal (1977) 190

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    Barry Windsor-Smith talks about the state of the art and his new book Storyteller; Donna Barr interviewed; Rob Liefeld and Image - the complete story. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #191
    Comics Journal (1977) 191

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    Carmine Infantino interviewed; Image litigation; R.C. Harvey on 'Bad Girls'; Paul Pope interviewed - part 1; Cages reviewed. Batman and Flash cover by Infantino. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #192
    Comics Journal (1977) 192

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    Interviews with Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo), Paul Pope, Dave Sim (Cerebus) and Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf. Comics in Poland. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Sakai. Black and white.. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #193
    Comics Journal (1977) 193

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    Interviews with Seth (Its a Good Life…), Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise) and Bill Schorr (The Grizzwells). Bill Griffith celebrates a century of comics. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Seth. Black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $5.95. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #194
    Comics Journal (1977) 194

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    David Mazzucchelli talks about Rubber Blanket, the New Yorker and more; Bryan Talbot (The Tale of One Bad Rat) interviewed. Cover by Mazzucchelli. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #195
    Comics Journal (1977) 195

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    Interview with political cartoonist Tom Toles; behind-the-scenes of the Rob Liefeld/Todd McFarlane fall-out. Cover by Toles. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #196
    Comics Journal (1977) 196

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    Interviews with Dave McKean, on his first decade in comics, and Nick Abadzis (Hugo Tate). R.C. Harvey celebrates a century of comics. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. All this, and the Snobby Awards too! Cover by McKean. Black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #197
    Comics Journal (1977) 197

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    Interviews with Wally Wood (archived from 1977) and Patrick McDonnell (Mutts). A look at Woods work through the years. Roundtable discussion with young NYC cartoonists. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Wood. Black and white; 96 pages. Cover price $5.95. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #198
    Comics Journal (1977) 198

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    Interview with Milo Manara; interview with Hunt Emerson; Wally Wood's life and work - part 2; Eisner winners; convention reports. Cover by Manara. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #199
    Comics Journal (1977) 199

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    James Robinson interviewed; Paul Krassner (The Realist) interviewed; Justice Department investigates comics industry; Planet Comics case resolved; SPX/ICAF coverage; top industry figures debate 'The Comic Book Crisis.' Leave It to Chance cover by Paul Smith. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #200
    Comics Journal (1977) 200


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    Special double-sized anniversary issue. Interviews with Charles Schulz and Chris Ware. Essays on the essential works in comics. A look at Jules Feiffers classic book, The Great Comic Book Heroes. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Covers by Schulz and Ware. Black and white; 280 pages. Cover price $12.95. Cover price $5.95.