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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published July 1985
Cover Price 2.00 CAD; 1.70 USD
Pages 28
Editing Dave Sim

Cover Details - "Verying [sic] Reasons of Assorted Depths"

Characters Cerebus; Adam Weisshaupt
Genre Fantasy
Script Dave Sim ?
Pencils Dave Sim (signed)[as DS]
Inks Dave Sim (signed)[as DS]; Gerhard (signed)[as Ger]
Colors Dave Sim (signed)[as DS]; Gerhard (signed)[as Ger]
Letters Dave Sim ?
Notes Same image used for back cover without text.

1 page Note From the President foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "New rules, guys..."

Synopsis Dave explains his new rules for being at a convention.
Script Dave Sim
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside front cover. Also includes indicia. Circulation 24,200. Copyright noted as "All contents (C) 1985 Dave Sim".

20 page Cerebus story "Varying Reasons of Assorted Depths"

Characters Cerebus; Weisshaupt; Boobah
Synopsis Weishaupt imparts last words of advice. Cerebus learns there are two other aardvarks.
Genre Fantasy
Script Dave Sim
Pencils Dave Sim; Gerhard (backgrounds)
Inks Dave Sim; Gerhard
Letters Dave Sim
Reprinted in Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1986 series) #3 [Church & State Volume 1]

1 page advertisement "Now and Then Books"

Synopsis Ad for Cerebus stuff including back issues and original artwork from Now and Then Books in Kitchener, Ontario.

3 page Aardvark Comment letters page "Aardvark Comment"

Characters Dave Sim; Michael Wm. Kaluta
Synopsis Letters of comment including one from Jerry Siegel, Derek McCulloch and Rob McCulloch.
Script Dave Sim
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters Typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Friends of Cerebus Fan Club"

Synopsis Ad for Friends of Cerebus Fan Club, Original Artwork for sale, back issues, subscriptions and "The First Fifth" portfolio.
Notes Inside back cover.

1 page illustration

Characters Cerebus; Weisshaupt
Pencils Dave Sim [as DS]
Inks Dave Sim [as DS]; Gerhard [as Ger]
Colors Dave Sim [as DS]; Gerhard [as Ger]
Notes Same image as front cover, but without logo or any other lettering.