Eightball #8 - First Appearance of Dan Pussey, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Eightball (Fantagraphics, 1989 series)
Issue: #8
Publication date: May 1992
Key date: May 1992
On-sale date: 1992
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.95; 3.50 CAD
Pages: 32
Rating: For Mature Readers

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Dan Pussey - 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	-	cover	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; colors: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes
1	Attention Collector! Back Issues	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; colors: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes
2	Part Eight	comic story	12	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; colors: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Clay Loudermilk; Billings; Geat; Haskell; Dr Wilde; Barbara Allen
3	The Raging Main	letters page	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes
4	Plugsville	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes, Rick Altergott; inks: Daniel Clowes, Rick Altergott; letters: Daniel Clowes	Doofus; Henry Hotchkiss
5	Ugly Girls	comic story	3	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Charlie
6	Ye Olde Gift Shoppe	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes
7	Grist for the Mill	comic story	2	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Daniel Clowes; Bill
8	Komic Kollector's Korner	comic story	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Dan Pussey First
9	Nature Boy	comic story	3	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes
10	Give It Up!	comic story	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; colors: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes
11	Attention, Art Lovers!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; colors: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes
12	-	comic story	1	script: Dave Greenberger; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	John
13	My Suicide...	comic story	3	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; colors: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Second Printing	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Funny Book #1	2005	On eBay ›
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #[nn] ISBN 1560971169; 9781560971160	1998	On eBay ›
Pussey! #[nn] ISBN 1560971835	1995	On eBay ›
Twentieth Century Eightball #[nn] ISBN 1-56097-436-2; 978-1-56097-436-9	2002	On eBay ›
Orgy Bound #[nn] ISBN 1560973021	1996	On eBay ›
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #[nn] ISBN 1560971185	1993	On eBay ›
Pussey! #[nn] ISBN 9781560971832; 1560971835	2006	On eBay ›
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron #[nn] ISBN 1560971169	1993	On eBay ›
The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations #[nn] ISBN 978-1-60699-589-1	2013	On eBay ›
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist #[nn] ISBN 9781419702082	2012	On eBay ›
Issues 1-10 ISBN 978-1-60699-757-4	2015	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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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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