Jizz #1 - First Appearance of Scott Russo, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Jizz (Fantagraphics, 1991 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: January 1991
Key date: January 10, 1991
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.00; 2.50 CAD
Pages: 28

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Scott Russo - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of Sister Ellspeth - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	(What Are You Waiting For? Buy it Already!)	cover	1	pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First, Sister Ellspeth First
1	Welcome to My Private Hell	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Franz Kafka (photo)
2	Editorial - One Dude's Opinion	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo
3	Writer's Block	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo
4	-	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First, Sister Ellspeth First
5	-	comic story	2	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First
6	Those Wacky Skinheads!	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Two Skinheads; Mulugeta Seraw [as Mulegeta Seraw] (photo)
7	Spiked	comic story	4	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First
8	-	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Sister Ellspeth First
9	-	text story	2	script: Gerald C. Crotty, Scott Russo
10	An Overheard Conversation. Really.	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First
11	Inside Fantagraphics	comic story	2	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Gary Groth, Stan Lee, Kim Thompson
12	-	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First
13	Tuesday, Sister Gets a Package Meant for Her Neighbor	illustration	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Sister Ellspeth First
14	Fantagraphicus Liberi	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First
15	-	illustration	1	script: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Bishop Thomas V. Daily (photo)
16	-	comic story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Scott Russo First
17	What is Wrong With These Pictures?	illustration	2	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo	Malcolm X (photo); Jesse Helms (photo); Thomas Jefferson
18	Finally, a Use for the Crippled	illustration	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo; letters: Scott Russo
19	The Classifieds	text story	1	script: Scott Russo; pencils: Scott Russo; inks: Scott Russo
20	-	illustration	1	script: Scott Russo

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Series context

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Sources

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

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