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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published [November] 2002
Cover Price 2.50 USD; 3.50 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Bill Morrison (creative director); Terry Delegeane (managing editor)
Notes Hamlet parody.

Cover Details - "The Simpsons Shake-Up Shakespeare!"

Characters Bart Simpson; Homer Simpson
Genre humor; sitcom; family; satire
Pencils Jason Ho (signed)
Inks Jason Ho (signed)
Colors Nathan Kane (signed)
Notes Hamlet parody.

27 page Simpsons story "Bard Boiled"

Characters Bart Simpson; Lisa Simpson; Marge Simpson; Homer Simpson; Maggie Simpson; Principal Skinner [Seymour Skinner]; Edna Krabappel; Mr. Burns; Waylon Smithers ; Carl Carlson; Lenny Leonard; Professor Frink; Chief Wiggum; Moe Szyslak; Reverend Lovejoy; Ned Flanders; Rod Flanders; Todd Flanders; Ralph Wiggum; Nelson Muntz; Krusty the Clown; Itchy; Scratchy; Sideshow Bob; Kent Brockman; Patty Bouvier; Selma Bouvier
Synopsis While Springfield's children perform Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida", Homer dozes off, dreaming of different Shakespeare "plays" portrayed by various Springfield residents.
Genre humor; sitcom; family; satire
Script Ian Boothby
Pencils John Costanza
Inks Phyllis Novin; Howard Shum
Colors Art Villanueva; Joey Mason
Letters Karen Bates
Notes Contains parodies of Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, Titus Andronicus and King Lear.

1 page Junk Mail letters page "Junk Mail"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters from Jacob Kise and Amanda Lucas with fan art from Amanda Lucas.