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Subject: CEREBUS - obscurities
From: Kerrin.Jones@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Kerrin Rhys Jones)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:16:31 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.


OK, here it is at last. Sorry about the delay. This is from an article a friend
and I are in the process of finishing off for a local fanzine...Oh, and if anyone
knows of anything we've missed, has any queries, or can fill in any gaps, PLEASE
e-mail me. 

CEREBUS ISSUES
OK, currently at issue #160 and still going strong, MOST stories that have
appeared in the original issues of Cerebus have been reprinted in the "phone
books" and/or the biweekly reprint series (which reprints up to #80, and will not
be continued further, according to a note from Sim in the reprint of #79).
What hasn't been reprinted?

CEREBUS #40 (July, 1982) had a  4pp Cerebus back-up story by Sim, called 'Goat',
	which tied in to the High Society storyline. Text, with illos. NOT
	reprinted anywhere, as far as we know.

CEREBUS #51 (June 1983). Issue titled "Exodus". Not reprinted in any phone book,
	but was reprinted as issue #1 of Cerebus: Church and State reprint run.

CEREBUS #52 (July 1983). This issue consisted of three short stories, one of which,
	'ElfGuest', a 4pp ElfQuest parody was not reprinted in the HS phone book, 
	but was in the biweekly reprint.

CEREBUS #91 (Oct 1986). After cancelling Cerebus Jam #2, Sim said he'd print each
	story originally intended for that, in the back of the regular Cerebus
	title as they were done. To date, the only one we've seen is 'The
	Applicant' by Sim, Gerhard and Colleen Doran (4pp) which appeared as a
	back-up strip in this issue. Probably not included in the C&SII phone
	book.

CEREBUS #104 (Nov 1987). Flaming Carrot crossover by Sim and Bob Burden!! Yay!!
	The only occaision on nwhich a creator other than Sim and Gerhard has
	drawn a significant part of an issue of Cerebus. WAS reprinted in C&SII.

CEREBUS #112/113 (July/August 1988). Only ever double issue of Cerebus. Featured
	a story 'Square One', sort of an epilogue to Church and State which ended
	in issue #111. Not reprinted in any phone book.

CEREBUS #137 and #138 (August and September 1990). These two issues were
	subtitled 'Jaka's Story Epilogue' #1 and #2, contained 2 short stories
	between them, neither of which were included in the Jaka's Story phone
	book (I believe - can anyone confirm this? Ta)


SWORDS OF CEREBUS
The six volumes of this title together reprinted Cerebus #1 to #25, including
commentaries by Sim. They each also included a new Cerebus short story each, most
of which haven't been reprinted. I don't know what was in volumes 1,2 and 4 (can
someone let me know?) but the others were:

Vol 3: "What Happened Between Issues Twenty and Twenty-One" by Sim in
	collaboration with Gene Day. (8pp)

Vol 5: Cover and back covers by Barry Windsor-Smith, and a new Cerebus story
	"Cerebus Dreams" (6pp) by BWS (as far as we know, the only ever official
	Cerebus story done entirely by someone other than Dave Sim.)

Vol. 6: New story "A Night on the Town" by Sim and Gerhard (7pp), which was
	reprinted in Best Comics of The Decade Vol (1 or 2?).



AV IN 3D #1 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Dec 1984)
This included 3D stories featuring Flaming Carrot, normalman, Neil the Horse, and
CEREBUS: "Cerebus Dreams II" by Sim and Gerhard, a sequel to BWS's 'Cerebus
Dreams' from Swords Vol 5. (4pp)



CEREBUS JAM #1 (April, 1985)
The one and only issue of this title, it featured short Cerebus stories by Sim
and Gerhard in collaboration with various other creators; Will Eisner, Terry
Austin, Scott and Bo Hampton, etc. Also, a cover by Bill Sienkiewicz.




That's it for Aardvark-Vanaheim Cerebus appearances. I've got plenty more about
appearances in Epic Illustrated, TMNT, various others, and parodies which I'll
post later. I'm kinda pushed for time right now... 

Share and Enjoy...
			- Kerrin
	
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