Kafka #[nn] - First Appearance of Franz Kafka, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Kafka (Fantagraphics, 2007 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: 2007
Key date: April 11, 2007
On-sale date: April 11, 2007
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Price: $14.95
Pages: 180
Barcode: 9781560978060
ISBN: 978-1-56097-806-0

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Franz Kafka - 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	Kafka	cover	1	pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb
1	Kafka	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb	Franz Kafka First
2	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	letters: typeset
3	Franz Kafka	comic story	9	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
4	Golem	comic story	10	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
5	Ritual Murder	comic story	7	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
6	The Judgment	comic story	10	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
7	Metamorphosis	comic story	18	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
8	The Burrow	comic story	18	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
9	In the Penal Colony	comic story	13	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
10	The Trial	comic story	21	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
11	The Castle	comic story	31	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
12	Berlin, 1923	comic story	4	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
13	A Hunger Artist	comic story	10	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
14	Afterword	comic story	22	script: Robert Crumb; pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb; letters: Robert Crumb
15	Index	table of contents	1	letters: typeset
16	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Robert Crumb; inks: Robert Crumb

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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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