CATALOG RECORD

The Tick #9

New England Comics · Series began 1988 · March 1991

Dates

Copies of #9 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

1st printing
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2nd printing

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page

pencils: Ben Edlundinks: Dave Garciascript: Ben Edlund, George Suarezletters: Bob Polio

Road Trip · 20 pages
The Tick and Arthur prepare to leave The City but are accosted by the Tick's fellow escaped insane asylum inmates who have come to worship him. Arthur drives and the Tick navigates as the duo head for New York but our hero has a little trouble with the map (starting with the fact that it is a 1959 edition). After countless miles of driving all over creation, Arthur insists that they do the unthinkable--ask for directions. The Chainsaw Vigilante cuts his way through the rest of the Civic-Minded Five and sets his sights on the Tick and Arthur.
Arachnida · 0.5 pages
Ben Edlund discusses how the car used in this issue by Tick and Arthur is based on his friends real life vehicle.
Editorially Speaking · 0.5 pages
Discussion on the lateness of NEC books, and a promise that NEC will do better in 1991.

The Tick Omnibus (1990), The Tick: The Complete Edlund (2008)