The Frank Book #[nn] (2003) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: The Frank Book (Fantagraphics, 2003 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: [June] 2003
Key date: June 2003
On-sale date: 2003
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Price: $39.95; 63.95 CAD
Pages: 362
Barcode: 978156097534253995
ISBN: 1560975342; 9781560975342

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	insert or dust jacket	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
1	Title Page & Credits	credits, title page	2	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring
2	Constellations	illustration	2	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Pupshaw, Pushpaw, Whim
3	Contents	table of contents	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring
4	Frank Plowing	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank
5	Introduction	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Francis Ford Coppola
6	Dedication	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
7	Title Page	credits, title page	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
8	Frank in The River	comic story	24	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
9	Frank in the House of the Dead	comic story	8	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
10	Frank Acquires Pupshaw	comic story	8	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Lucky, Manhog, Pupshaw
11	Frank's Faux Pa	comic story	10	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Whim
12	Frank's Real Pa	comic story	48	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Lucky, Manhog, Pupshaw, Whim
13	Bliss	comic story	6	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw, Pushpaw
14	Frank in the Wilderness	comic story	3	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank
15	Frank in the Mood	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
16	Frank's Fish	comic story	3	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank
17	Frank and the Yams of Iniquity	comic story	3	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
18	Frank Visits the Palace of Horrors	comic story	6	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Lucky, Manhog, Whim
19	Frank and the Truth About Plenitude	comic story	9	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank
20	What to Do	cartoon	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
21	Frank in the Ruse Garden	comic story	8	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
22	Frank and the Appalling Perfidy of Manhog	comic story	8	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
23	Frank in the Cave of His Ancestors	comic story	5	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
24	Frank As a Tool of Conscience in the Hands of Whim	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Whim
25	Manhog Beyond the Face	comic story	10	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
26	Authorized Only	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Mark Landman, Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Whim
27	Pushpaw	comic story	18	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw, Pushpaw
28	Ask the Sea...	comic story	9	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank
29	Pupshaw	comic story	2	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
30	Frank and the Toy Without Pity	comic story	11	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Pupshaw
31	Gentlemanhog	comic story	19	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
32	Hi-Rise Hopper	comic story	5	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw, Whim
33	Frank and the Sugar of Vengeance	comic story	3	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
34	Frank Obeys the Rule of Five	comic story	5	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
35	How It Got There	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Whim
36	Frank and Why It's Good to be Clever	comic story	5	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
37	Frankincense	cartoon	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Pupshaw, Whim
38	Peeker	comic story	5	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Whim
39	Sprank	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
40	Frank and the Blessing of Reverse Containment	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank
41	Frank's Feast	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
42	Frank and the Mystery of the Instrument	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
43	Frank and the Way of All Flesh	comic story	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Whim
44	Frank's High Horse	comic story	50	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; letters: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Pupshaw, Whim
45	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
46	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
47	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
48	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
49	Knowledge Extinguishes the Flame of Curiousity	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Whim
50	Just Did It	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
51	Frog Flower	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
52	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw, Whim
53	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Pupshaw
54	-	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
55	Aqueous Humor	cartoon	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank
56	That Sweet, Sad Music	cartoon	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
57	The Little Red Schoolhouse	cartoon	0.5	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank
58	Squeaker in the Woods	comic story	0.5	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
59	The Counteroffering	comic story	0.5	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog, Pupshaw
60	Touch-Me-Not	cartoon	0.25	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Pupshaw
61	Bookplate	cartoon	0.25	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank
62	Worse Than Useless	cartoon	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Pupshaw, Whim
63	Frank Amok	illustration	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank
64	Glendale	illustration	2	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Big Egypt Parlor Sphinx, Frank
65	Dramatis Personae	illustration	2	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Lucky, Manhog, Pupshaw, Pushpaw, Whim
66	The First Drawing of Frank	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank
67	Frank and Manhog	comic story	4	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Frank, Manhog
68	Afterword	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Jim Woodring; pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring	Pupshaw
69	Constellations	illustration	2	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank, Lucky, Manhog, Pupshaw, Pushpaw, Whim
70	Frank and Spout	illustration	1	pencils: Jim Woodring; inks: Jim Woodring; colors: Jim Woodring	Frank

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Weathercraft and Other Unusual Tales [Free Comic Book Day] #[nn]	2010	On eBay ›
The Portable Frank #[nn] ISBN 978-1-56097-978-4	2008	On eBay ›
The Frank Book #[nn] ISBN 9781606995136	2011	On eBay ›
The Frank Book #[nn] ISBN 9781606995006	2011	On eBay ›

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