Critters #15 - First Appearance of Fission Chicken, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Critters (Fantagraphics, 1986 series)
Issue: #15
Publication date: August 1987
Key date: August 1987
On-sale date: 1987
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.00; 3.00 CAD
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Fission Chicken - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance (cover) of Blue Beagle - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance of Quax Bedroom - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Blue Beagle	cover	1	pencils: Tim Fuller; inks: Tim Fuller; colors: Tim Fuller	Blue Beagle First
1	Quax Bedroom	comic story	1	script: Tim Fuller; pencils: Tim Fuller; inks: Tim Fuller	Quax Bedroom First
2	Fast Food, Slow Death	comic story	9	script: Tim Fuller; pencils: Tim Fuller; inks: Tim Fuller	Blue Beagle First
3	Birthright II [Chapter Four of Six]	comic story	10	script: Steven A. Gallacci; pencils: Steven A. Gallacci; inks: Steven A. Gallacci, Monika Livingston	Prince Alfon; Prince Anton
4	Th' Children's Hour	comic story	1	script: Raoul Vezina, Michael T. Gilbert; pencils: Raoul Vezina, Michael T. Gilbert; inks: Raoul Vezina, Michael T. Gilbert
5	The Real Awful Terror of Boogog	comic story	8	script: J. P. Morgan; pencils: J. P. Morgan; inks: J. P. Morgan	Fission Chicken First
6	Editorial	text article	0.75	script: Kim Thompson
7	Letters	letters page	2.13	letters: typeset
8	-	illustration	0.06	script: K. B. Emil; pencils: K. B. Emil; inks: K. B. Emil; letters: K. B. Emil
9	-	illustration	0.06		Miyamoto Usagi
10	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	3	letters: typeset

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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