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Publishers / Fantagraphics / King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2005) / #[nn]
[nn]February 2005
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King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. #[nn]

Fantagraphics · February 2005

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Series
King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Fantagraphics, 2005 series)
Issue
#[nn]
Publication date
February 2005
Key date
February 2005
Indicia publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Price
$22.95
Pages
248
Barcode
978156097622652295
ISBN
1560976225

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Kingcover1pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King Jr.
1-promo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset
2-illustration3pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson
31935comic story4script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King Jr.; Martin Luther King Sr.
4King: A Comic Book Biographycredits, title page2pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King Jr.
5-credits, title page1pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson
6A King In Comicsforeword, introduction, preface, afterword3script: Stanley Crouch; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King Jr.
7The Witnessescomic story2script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonWitnesses to the life of Martin Luther King.
8Kingcomic story1.67script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King, Jr.
9Boston University, 1952comic story5.33script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King, Jr.; Philip; Reverend Hollis; Mr. Barbour; Serious Doctor; Partygoers
10Kingcomic story2script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King Jr.; Reverend
11Western Lunch Box: Coretta Scottcomic story1script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.; Coretta Scott
12Copacabana Clubcomic story0.67script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.; Coretta Scott
13The Totem PoleBoxcomic story6script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.; Coretta Scott; dancers
14Alabama, June 18, 1953comic story4script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Coretta Scott King; Witnesses; Rosa Parks
15Montgomery, Alabama, 1955: Ralph Abernathycomic story28.33script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Coretta Scott King; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Rosa Parks; Bus Driver; Morrie; Brother Nixon [E.D. Nixon]; Rufus Lewis; Boycotters; Associated Press Reporter; Charlie; Vern; Emmett Till
16Kingcomic story4script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che AndersonMurray Myron; Martin Luther King, Jr.
17New York, 1957: A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters & Roy Wilkins of the NAACPcomic story6.33script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; A. Philip Randolph; Asa; Roy Wilkins; Daphne; Charlie
18February 2, 1960comic story1script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonWitness
19Rick's Snack Bar, Atlanta, October 19comic story1.67script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Brother Ralph [The Reverend Ralph Abernathy]; Police
20Harlem, New York Blumstein's Department Store Saturday September 20comic story2script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che AndersonDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Madame [Izola Curry]
21Kingcomic story2script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson
22Kingcomic story2script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Sr.
23Kingcomic story2script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. [Daddy King]; Surgeon; Coretta Scott King; Randolph
24Massachusetts, June, 1960: Senator John F. Kennedycomic story7.5script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Senator John F. Kennedy; The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. [Daddy King]; Mr. Blessing; SNCC members; Yolanda King; Coretta Scott King; Lonnie
251961comic story2.5script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Andrew Young; Brother Lowery; Wyatt Walker
26The Freedom Ridescomic story17script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonCongress of Racial Equality Member; The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Fred Shuttlesworth; President John F. Kennedy; Freedom Riders; Ku Klux Klan Supporters; Coretta Scott King; "Bull" Connor; Governor George C. Wallace
27Birmingham, Alabama, 1963comic story15.67script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonGreg; Nathan; The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Fred Shuttlesworth; April; Caroline Longstreet; Wyatt Walker; Dorothy; SCLC volunteers
28Birmingham, Alabama, May 2: D-Daycomic story1.33script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonDemonstrators; police; "Bull" Connor
29May 3: Double D-Daycomic story11script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; A. Philip Randolph; President John F. Kennedy; Demonstrators; Police; Firemen; "Bull" Connor; Roy; Asa; Bobby [Robert F. Kennedy]; Lyndon Johnson; Joseph McCarthy (single-panel)
30Washington, August 28, 1963: The March on Washingtoncomic story13script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; A. Philip Randolph; Mahalia Jackson; Charlton Heston; Demonstrators
31Kingillustration2script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che Anderson
32Kingcomic story4script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonJohn F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Jacqueline Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald; Jack Ruby; The Witnesses; The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; J. Edgar Hoover
33Chicago, Illinois, January, 1966: Martin Moves Into North Lawndalecomic story14.5script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Coretta Scott King; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Greg
34Martin is Received by the Vice Lordscomic story3.5script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Vice Lords; Damon; Morty's Kid; Jeff
35The Chicago Freedom Movement Meet and Greet the Cobras & the Blackstone Rangerscomic story4script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther king Jr.; Cobras; Blackstone Rangers
36Martin Meets With Floyd McKissick, National Director of CORE, and Stokely Carmichael, Chairman of SNCCcomic story4script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Floyd McKissick; Stokely Carmichael
37July 10, Soldier's Field: Freedom Sundaycomic story7script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Mayor Richard J. Daley; Coretta Scott King; police; demonstrators; Yolanda King
38July 12comic story1.67script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonRioters; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy
39July 13comic story0.66script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonPolice; rioters
40July 14comic story9.67script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Caroline Longstreet; Andrew Young; Mayor Richard J. Daley; Witnesses; Slum Dwellers
41Martin Meets With James Lawson, Pastor of the Centenary Methodist Churchcomic story5script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; The Reverend James Lawson; Caroline Longstreet
42Memphis, March 28, 1968comic story12script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Jimmy [The Reverend James Lawson]; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Andrew Young; police; sanitation workers; Coretta Scott King
43Memphis, April 4, 1968comic story14script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; The Reverend Ralph Abernathy; A.D. King; Andrew Young; Maralee; Reverend Kyles; Chauncey Eskridge; Billy
44Kingcomic story3script: Ho Che Anderson; pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; letters: Ho Che Anderson
45-illustration1pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson; colors: Ho Che Anderson
46With Acknowledgement to the Works of / By the Same Perpetrator / The Volume Covers for King 1-3credits, title page2pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che Anderson
47-illustration3pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
48-promo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset
49-promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Ho Che Anderson; inks: Ho Che AndersonMartin Luther King, Jr.

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