Lloyd Llewellyn #1 - First Appearance of Stump Hassler, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Lloyd Llewellyn (Fantagraphics, 1986 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: April 1986
Key date: April 1986
On-sale date: December 1, 1985
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.25; 3.15 CAD
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Stump Hassler - 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	Ernie Hoyle, Lloyd Llewellyn
1	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
2	Murder, Martians and Wild, Wild Women	comic story	10	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Fatima, Stump Hassler First, Red Hoerring, Ernie Hoyle, Lloyd Llewellyn
3	The Ghost and the Gearjammer	comic story	8	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Ernie Hoyle, Lloyd Llewellyn
4	How's That?	comic story	2	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Mort Todd; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Stump Hassler First, Red Hoerring, Ernie Hoyle
5	The Little Man In The Inkwell	comic story	10	script: Daniel Clowes; pencils: Daniel Clowes; inks: Daniel Clowes; letters: Daniel Clowes	Stump Hassler First, Red Hoerring, Red Hoerring, Lloyd Llewellyn

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn: A Golden Treasury of His Complete Works #[nn] ISBN 1560971452	1994	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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