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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published Fall 1982
Cover Price 7.00 CAD
Pages 116
Editing Denise Loubert (president)

Cover Details - "The Palnu Trilogy"

Genre Satire
Pencils Dave Sim (painting)
Inks Dave Sim (painting)
Colors Dave Sim (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page illustration

Script Alex Toth
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Letters Alex Toth
Notes Inside front cover features small illustration by Alex Toth, praising Cerebus and Dave Sim.

2 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Introductions"

Synopsis Introduction and background for the stories "Magiking" (previously unpublished) and "Black Magiking" (Cerebus No. 13, Dec. 1979-Jan. 1980) that follow.
Script Dave Sim
Letters typeset

10 page Cerebus story "Magiking"

Synopsis A prequel to the story "Black Magiking" from Cerebus #13 (1977 Series)
Genre Satire
Script Dave Sim
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Letters Dave Sim
Notes The story "Magiking" is original to this volume.
Reprinted in Cerebus Bi-Weekly (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1988 series) #nn [26]

22 page Cerebus story "Black Magiking"

Genre Satire
Script Dave Sim
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Letters Dave Sim
Reprinted from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #13

5 page story "Introductions"

Synopsis Introductory essay to the stories "Silverspoon" (reprinted from the Buyer's Gide for Comic Fandom 1980 issues); "The Walls of Palnu" (Cerebus #14, March 1980); "A Day in the Pits" (Cerebus #15, April 1989); and "A Night at the Masque" (Cerebus #16, May 1980).
Script Dave Sim
Letters typeset

11 page Cerebus story "Silverspoon"

Genre Satire
Script Dave Sim
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Letters Dave Sim
Reprinted from Buyers Guide to Comic Fandom, The [serialized in 1980]; in Cerebus Bi-Weekly (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1988 series) #nn [26] [in this form]

20 page Cerebus story "The Walls of Palnu"

Genre Satire
Script Dave Sim
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Letters Dave Sim
Reprinted from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #14

20 page Cerebus story "A Day in the Pits"

Genre Satire
Script Dave Sim
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Letters Dave Sim
Reprinted from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #15

20 page Cerebus story "A Night at the Masque"

Genre Satire
Script Dave Sim
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Letters Dave Sim
Reprinted from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #16

1 page Cerebus (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Genre Satire
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Colors Dave Sim
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #13 [cover]; from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #14 [cover]; from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #15 [cover]; from Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1977 series) #16 [cover]