Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	July 1997
Cover Price	12.95 USD
Pages	138
Editing	Lynn Adair

Cover Details - "Man of Mystery"

Genre	satire
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Colors	Arthur Suydam

2 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Bob Burden: The Man Who Proved the Earth Is Flat"

Script	Dave Sim
Letters	typeset

4 page text article "I Carrot"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; Bob
Synopsis	introduction to the character-no plot
Reprinted	from Anything Goes! (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) #1 (October 1986)

32 page Flaming Carrot story "Road Hogs from Outer Space"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; Uncle Billy; Dr Heller; Artless Dodger (cameo); Zip the Puppet
Synopsis	Cub reporter Radzak Zokey searches for the Flaming Carrot. Meanwhile Martians attack, insulted by all our bad SF movies
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Reprinted	from Flaming Carrot Comics (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1984 series) #1 (May 1984)

5 page Flaming Carrot story "Flaming Carrot and His World"

Characters	Flaming Carrot (origin)
Synopsis	origin recapped
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Reprinted	from Flaming Carrot Comics (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1984 series) #3 (September 1984)

23 page Flaming Carrot story "Death Gets Drunk"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; Death; Barky (a Scottish super-hero); Mel Toupee
Synopsis	The Carrot and Death are both chasing gang leader Mel Toupee
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Reprinted	from Flaming Carrot Comics (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1984 series) #2 (July 1984)

24 page Flaming Carrot story "Flaming Carrot Meets the Artless Dodger"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; Artless Dodger
Synopsis	The Artless Dodger causes mass destruction abd murders people to steal worthless items
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Reprinted	from Flaming Carrot Comics (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1984 series) #3 (September 1984)

1 page Flaming Carrot illustration "Secrets of the Carrot"

Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Notes	description of the Carrot's weapons
Reprinted	from Flaming Carrot Comics Annual (Dark Horse, 1997 series) #1

4 page Flaming Carrot story "The Bandit Moons"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; Uncle Billy; Sponge Boy
Synopsis	The Bandit Moons capture Sponge Boy
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Reprinted	from AV in 3D (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1984 series) #1 (December 1984)

5 page Flaming Carrot story "The New People Part 1"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; 8-Ball; Strange Witch
Synopsis	The City is besieged by men of sawdust floating down from the sky
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Reprinted	from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #61 (April 1984)

5 page Flaming Carrot story "The New People Part 2"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; 8-Ball; Strange Witch
Synopsis	Flaming Carrot defeats the witch
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Reprinted	from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #62 (May 1984)

10 page Flaming Carrot text story "Flaming Carrot's Midnight Adventure"

Characters	Flaming Carrot; Madame Sorga; Brunnar
Synopsis	The Carrot is captured by the King of Lost Buttons
Genre	satire
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden (spot illos)
Inks	Bob Burden (spot illos)
Letters	typeset

5 page story "Adventures In Limbo"

Synopsis	The Circus Bezerkus tries to dispose of a dead elephant
Script	Bob Burden
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden
Letters	Roxanne Starr
Notes	not a Flaming Carrot story
Reprinted	from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #63 (June 1984)

1 page Mystery Men illustration

Characters	Forty Face; The Apostle; The Gasser
Pencils	Bob Burden
Inks	Bob Burden