Street Music #1 - First Appearance of Mark Martin, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Street Music (Fantagraphics, 1988 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: December 1988
Key date: December 1988
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.75; 3.50 CAD
Pages: 60

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Mark Martin - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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	Cafe	cover	1	pencils: Richard Sala; inks: Richard Sala; letters: Michael Cherkas
1	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Jules Feiffer; pencils: Jules Feiffer; inks: Jules Feiffer; letters: Jules Feiffer
2	Street Music	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
3	Street Music, chapter 1	comic story	16	script: Mark Burbey; pencils: Bill Turner; inks: Bill Turner; letters: Bill Turner	Lincoln; Fripp; Vida; Jerry; Jack; Ruby; Clorette; Dan; Tyler
4	Behind a Door	comic story	3	script: Mark Burbey; pencils: Richard Sala; inks: Richard Sala; letters: Richard Sala	Joan; Joan's Boyfriend
5	The Fantagraphics 500 Complete Catalogue: Winter 1988 / 89	promo (ad from the publisher)	16	script: Gary Groth, Kim Thompson
6	Death in the Afternoon	text story	1	script: Pete Hamill
7	Job Abuse	comic story	5	script: Carol Tyler; pencils: Carol Tyler; inks: Carol Tyler; letters: Carol Tyler	Carol Tyler
8	There's Nothing Worse Than Having an Itch You Can't Scratch...	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
9	The Observation Deck!	text article	2	script: Michael Now; pencils: Mark Martin; inks: Mark Martin; letters: Mark Martin
10	Message	comic story	6	script: David Marshall; pencils: David Marshall; inks: David Marshall; letters: David Marshall
11	The Brobdingnagian Accident	comic story	2	script: Mark Burbey; pencils: Richard Lawson; inks: Richard Lawson	Daughter
12	Death in the Afternoon continued	text story	0.5	script: Pete Hamill
13	Feiffer	comic story	0.5	script: Jules Feiffer; pencils: Jules Feiffer; inks: Jules Feiffer; letters: Jules Feiffer
14	Coda	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	3	script: Mark Burbey; pencils: Mark Martin, Dave Marshall, Richard Sala, Bill Turner, Carol Tyler; inks: Mark Martin, Dave Marshall, Richard Sala, Bill Turner, Carol Tyler	Mark Martin First, Carol Tyler
15	Coast-to-Coast Comedy!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Job Thing #[nn] ISBN 1560971118	1993	On eBay ›

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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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