Hugo #1 - First Appearance of Hugo, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Hugo (Fantagraphics, 1982 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: Winter 1982
Key date: October 1982
On-sale date: 1982-10
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $1.50; 1.95 CAD
Pages: 36
Rating: Fairy Tales for Adults

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Why this issue matters

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

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

First appearance (cover) of King Adolph the Eleventeenth - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

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	pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; colors: Mr. Mace; letters: Todd Klein	Hugo First, King Adolph the Eleventeenth First, Princess Trish First
1	Hugo No. 1 Winter	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	0.67	letters: typeset
2	-	comic story	0.33	script: Milton Knight; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First, King Adolph the Eleventeenth First, Princess Trish First
3	-	comic story	9	script: Milton Knight; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First, King Adolph the Eleventeenth First
4	Chivalry	comic story	1	script: Milton Knight; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First, Princess Trish First
5	Hugo's Blue Period	comic story	2	script: Milton Knight; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First, Princess Trish First
6	Trish and Nan	comic story	2	script: Milton Knight; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	King Adolph the Eleventeenth First, Princess Trish First
7	Lenny	comic story	0.5	script: Milton Knight; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First
8	King Adolph	comic story	0.5	script: Milton Knight; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First, King Adolph the Eleventeenth First
9	Out of Nowhere	comic story	17	script: Milton Knight, Ed Katz; pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First, Princess Trish First
11	Look Out For Hugo No. 2!	illustration	1	pencils: Milton Knight; inks: Milton Knight; colors: Mr. Mace; letters: Milton Knight	Hugo First, Princess Trish First

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

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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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