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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published February 1991
Cover Price $2.25
Pages 24
Notes Letters page has comments from Mary Fleener, Jay Lynch and Don Simpson. Partial interior colour from this issue.

Cover Details

Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Colors Daniel Clowes
Letters Daniel Clowes
Notes Letters page has comments from Mary Fleener, Jay Lynch and Don Simpson. Partial interior colour from this issue.

Half page Duplex Planet story "Why Do People Spit?"

Genre Question
Script Various
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Colors Daniel Clowes
Letters Daniel Clowes
Notes Adapts answers given by people in an old folks home and originally published in Duplex Planet.
Reprinted in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) #nn

13 page Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron story "Part Five"

Characters Clay Loudermilk, Beatrice
Synopsis Clay ends up in a strange hotel
Genre Mystery
Script Daniel Clowes
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Colors Daniel Clowes
Letters Daniel Clowes
Notes First page is in colour
Reprinted in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #[nn]

4 page Daniel Clowes story "Just Another Day"

Characters Daniel Clowes
Synopsis Clowes directs his cast
Genre Biography
Script Daniel Clowes
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Letters Daniel Clowes
Reprinted in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) #nn

3 page story "Playful Obsession"

Characters Willie Millions, Insignificant Shrimp, Gregg, Sweet Sal, Obesity Girl
Genre Parody
Script Daniel Clowes
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Colors Daniel Clowes
Letters Daniel Clowes
Notes Strip is a pastiche of Richie Rich, Caspar and other Harvey characters, and is in colour
Reprinted in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) #nn

1 page story "Paranoid"

Characters God, God's Friend, you
Genre Slice of Life
Script Daniel Clowes
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Colors Daniel Clowes
Letters Daniel Clowes
Notes This is also the back cover
Reprinted in Lout Rampage (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) #nn