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A celebrated essayist, Ellison has often been asked to introduce comic collections. This is a selection of those introductions.
 
  BATMAN RETURNS MOVIE MAGAZINE
1992, Topps

Essay was severely edited from a page down to a paragraph because of an attack on DC Comics and their attitude towards creator rights. Essay was later reprinted in the Comic Buyer's Guide.

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  BERNIE WRIGHTSON: A LOOK BACK
1991, Underwood Miller
editor, Christopher Zavisa

Retrospective on the comic art and illustration work of Bernie Wrightson
  BUT I DIGRESS
1994, Comic Buyer's Guide

Collection of essays by Peter David, "Writer of Stuff," and founder of the Friends of Ellison

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  CANUCK COMICS
year unknown, Matrix Books
editor, John Bell;
cover, Ken Steacy

Price Guide and Bibliography of Canadian produced comic books

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  HARLAN ELLISON'S CHOCOLATE ALPHABET
"A Note On How This Story Came To Be Written"
1978, Last Gasp Eco-Funnies

Comic written by Harlan Ellison and illustrated by Larry Todd

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  ENCHANTED APPLES OF OZ
1986, First Comics

story & art, Eric Shanower

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  FISH POLICE: HAIRBALL
1987, Comico

story and art, Steve Moncuse

Collection of issues 1 through 4 of Fishwrap Press' Fish Police

FISH POLICE
"Finny Friends, Adieu, Toodle-oo: An Outroduction to Fish Police"
Issue 26, December 1990, Apple Comics

story and art, Steve Moncuse

Last issue of the Fish Police series

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  FIRESALE
"Smokey Considerations"
1989, Rip Off Press

Benefit comic for Larry Todd, Ellison's collaborator on The Chocolate Alphabet

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  GREY
Issue 1, January 1988, Viz

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  IMAGES OF OMAHA
Issue 1, 1992, Kitchen Sink Press

Benefit pin-up comic for Reed Waller, artist of Omaha the Cat Dancer
  KURT BUSIEK'S ASTRO CITY: FAMILY ALBUM
September 1988, Image Comics/Homage Comics

story, Kurt Busiek; art, Brent Anderson & Willie Blyberg; covers, Alex Ross

Collection of Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 2 Issues 1-3 and 10-13

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  LI'L ABNER
Volume 14, 1998, Kitchen Sink Press

Reprint of Li'l Abner comic strips from the year 1948, including a number of Shmoo strips.

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  MANGLE TANGLE TALES
"Roses In December"
Issue 1, 1990, Innovation

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  NIGHT AND THE ENEMY
1987, Comico/Graphitti Press

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  ROCKETEER GRAPHIC NOVEL
1985, Eclipse

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  SANDMAN: SEASONS OF THE MIST
1992, DC Comics/Vertigo
  SLOW DEATH
1975, Last Gasp Eco-Funnies

Reprint collection of stories from Slow Death, an underground comic from the sixties and seventies, featuring art and stories by R. Crumb, Rand Holmes, Richard Corben, Gilbert Shelton, Jaxon, Greg Irons, and others.

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  TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Issue 1 Anniversary Reprint, 1993, Mirage Press

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  TWILIGHT ZONE
"Riding The Daymare"
Issue 1, 1991, NOW Comics

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  VIC AND BLOOD
"After Vic and Blood, Some Afterthoughts As Afterwords"
1989, NBM

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  VISIONS OF AZRACH
1993, Kitchen Sink Press
  WIZARD 1995 COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE ANNUAL
1996, Wizard Press
  WIZARD PRESS PRESENTS BEYOND ZERO HOUR
1998(?), Wizard Press
  WOLVERTOONS
198?, Kitchen Sink Press
   
     
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