The Comics Journal Magazine Back Issues Archive

Comics # 53

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The Comics Journal # 53, Winter 1980

Features
A hell-raising interview with Harlan Ellison
What's right (and wrong) with comics, tv, literature-and the way we live

Comics # 54

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The Comics Journal # 54, March 1980

Features
The Marshall Rogers interview!
Al Capp's final interview
The shadow returns- Ellison & Kaluta create new comics novel!

Comics # 55

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The Comics Journal # 55, April 1980

Features
Marvel adds pages, follows DC to 50c format
Time warp cancelled: DC readies two new sf titles
Mightier than the skate: low sales kill Dracula

Comics # 56

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The Comics Journal # 56, June 1980

Features
Michael Fleisher: an interview with Jonah Hex's alter ego!
Roy Thomas quits Marvel for DC!

Comics # 57

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The Comics Journal # 57, Summer 1980

Features
Comics code rejects Daredevil drug story!
John Byrne unleashed!
The return of Steve Gerber

Comics # 58

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The Comics Journal # 58, September 1980

Features
The visual Elan of Frank Miller's Daredevil examined by R.C. Harvey!
Marvel launches film studio!

Comics # 59

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The Comics Journal # 59, October 1980

Features
Former Heavy Metal editor Ted White talks about drugs, fans, and comics art
Dick Giordano to edit all three Batman titles at DC

Comics # 60

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The Comics Journal # 60, November 1980

Features
Detective #500: exclusive preview
Gil Kane return to Marvel
An interview with Jim Shooter the future of Marvel!

Comics # 61

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The Comics Journal # 61, Winter 1981

Features
New graphic novels by Wrightson, Adams & Golden
Roy Thomas doesn't pull any punches in an exclusive interview
Dale Luciano on Bill Mantlo's duck
R.C. Harvey on dull comics

Comics # 62

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The Comics Journal # 62, March 1981

Features
Detectives, inc., Wrightson's mutants, Gerber's rat
A candid interview with DC's newest editor: Dick Giordano