Jim #2 (1988) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

Series: Jim (Fantagraphics, 1987 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: January 1988
Key date: January 1988
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.50; 3.75 CAD
Pages: 36

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring
1	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Kim Deitch; inks: Kim Deitch
2	Ugh, It's Jim Number Two- December 1987, The Magazine of Jokes and Platitudes	credits, title page	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
3	-	in-house column	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
4	Invisible Hinge	comic story	10	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Jim Woodring
5	Tales of Bears	text story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
6	Troutcapper Hats	illustration	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
7	Jim Book of the Dead	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
8	A Walk in the Foothills	text story	2	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
9	-	comic story	2	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Big Red
10	Enough Is Enough	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
11	My Dreamhouse	text story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
13	-	text article	1	script: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring
14	Pillar of Stew	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
15	-	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
16	Hernandez Heaven	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez
17	-	illustration	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Geier; inks: Jim Geier

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Best Comics of the Decade #2 ISBN 0560970374; 9780560970371	1990	On eBay ›
The Book of Jim #[nn] ISBN 156097091X	1993	On eBay ›
Jim #[nn] ISBN 9781606997529	2014	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Confirm the UPC box: a publisher mark instead of a barcode means direct edition, a barcode means newsstand.
Glossy covers of this era show edge chipping easily. Check black edges closely in the photos.
Check the staples and centerfold; heavily read anniversary and key issues loosen there first.

Series context

‹ #12 of 4#3 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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