The Book of Jim #[nn] (1993) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: The Book of Jim (Fantagraphics, 1993 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: February 1993
Key date: February 1993
On-sale date: 1993
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Price: $14.95
Pages: 124
Barcode: 978156097091051295
ISBN: 156097091X

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring
1	Title Page & Credits	credits, title page	2	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
2	The Book of Jim	table of contents	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
3	Author's Note	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	2	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
4	What Can I Tell Ya 'Bout Jim	comic story	1	script: Mark Martin; pencils: Mark Martin; inks: Mark Martin; letters: Mark Martin	Mark Martin
5	Two Children Inadvertently Kill an Agent of the Devil Through an Excess of Youthful High Spirit	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
6	What the Left Hand Did	comic story	13	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Big Egypt Parlor Sphinx, Jim Woodring
7	Cheap Work / Our Hero Is a Bastard	text story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
8	Tales of Bears	text story	7	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
9	The Lousy Show	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
10	Invisible Hinge	comic story	10	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Haripada Das [Frank]; Randy; Rosenblatt
11	At the Old Estate	comic story	6	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Daisy Beaumonde; Horace
12	Part II: Let's Play	comic story	6	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Jim Woodring
13	Enough Is Enough	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
14	The Hour of the Kitten	text story	3	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
15	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Big Egypt Parlor Sphinx
16	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring
17	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring
18	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
19	Screechy Peachy	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring
20	Particular Mind	comic story	13	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Jim Woodring
21	Horse Sinister	text story	3	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
22	Part III: Powerland	comic story	5	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Jim Woodring
23	Big Red	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Big Red
24	-	comic story	3	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Pulque
25	Barnyard Trouble	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
26	Dinosaur Cage	text story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
27	Part IV: Nidrian Gardner	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Daisy Beaumonde; Horace
28	Seafood Platter from Hell	comic story	5	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Jim Woodring
29	Pillar of Stew	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
30	When the Lobster Whistles On the Hill	text story	8	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
31	Good Medicine	text story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
32	Li'l Rat	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring, John Dorman; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
33	-	comic story	2	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Big Red
34	My Dreamhouse	text story	2	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
36	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Robert Williams, Alan Moore; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories #2 ISBN 9780300126716	2008	On eBay ›
Jim #[nn] ISBN 9781606997529	2014	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

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