I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! #[nn] - First Appearance of Big Red McLane, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! (Fantagraphics, 2007 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: June 2007
Key date: June 6, 2007
On-sale date: June 6, 2007
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Price: $19.95
Pages: 132
Barcode: 978156097839851995
ISBN: 9781560978398

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Big Red McLane - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Buzz Crandall - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

On the record: Eisner Award - Best Archival Collection/ Project - Comic Books (2008).

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: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
1	-	illustration	2	pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
2	Editor's thanks	text article	1	script: Paul Karasik
3	Contents	table of contents	1	letters: typeset
4	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Paul Karasik; pencils: Paul Karasik; inks: Paul Karasik	Fletcher Hanks, Jr. (photo)
5	Presidential Assassination	comic story	6	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
6	Org's Giant Spiders	comic story	7	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Barclay Flagg; inks: Barclay Flagg; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Fantomah
7	Skullface takes Over New York	comic story	8	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
8	The Flaming Claws	comic story	7	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Barclay Flagg; inks: Barclay Flagg; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Fantomah
9	The Fifth Columnists	comic story	8	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
10	The Red River Gang	comic story	5	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Big Red McLane First
11	Gyp Clip's Anti-Gravity Ray	comic story	7	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
12	Lions Loose in New York	comic story	7	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Barclay Flagg; inks: Barclay Flagg; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Fantomah
13	Slant Eyes	comic story	8	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
14	Lepus and the Colliding Planets	comic story	9	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Bob Jordan; inks: Bob Jordan; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Buzz Crandall First
15	The Demon's Tidal Wave	comic story	6	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
16	The City of Gold	comic story	7	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Barclay Flagg; inks: Barclay Flagg; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Fantomah
17	De Structo & the Headhunter	comic story	8	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
18	Diamond Thieves	comic story	7	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Barclay Flagg; inks: Barclay Flagg; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Fantomah
19	Wolf Eye's Vacuum Tubes	comic story	6	script: Fletcher Hanks; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks; letters: Fletcher Hanks	Stardust
20	Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks?	comic story	16	script: Paul Karasik; pencils: Paul Karasik; inks: Paul Karasik; colors: Paul Karasik; letters: Paul Karasik	Paul Karasik; Paul's Mom; De Structo; Fletcher Hanks Jr; Stardust; Fletcher Hanks Sr.
21	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
22	-	illustration	2	pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks	Fantomah
23	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Crumb, Gary Panter; pencils: Fletcher Hanks; inks: Fletcher Hanks	Fantomah

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Comics Journal #288	2008	On eBay ›

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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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