Dates
- Cover date
- August 1989
- On sale
- August 8, 1989
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (7)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original editionSource ↗
- 2nd printing
Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 3rd printing
Third Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 4th printing
Fourth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 5th printing
Fifth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 6th printing
Sixth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 7th printing
Seventh Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron · 13 pages
Clay sees a strange and compelling film titled 'Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron' and attempts to discover more about it.
- Devil Doll? · 3 pages
- The Laffin' Spittin' Man · 6 pages
Lloyd's philandering has unforeseen consequences
- Young Dan Pussey · 10 pages
Satire about monthly mass-produced superhero comics
- What Is the Most Important Invention of the Twentieth Century? · 1 pages
Reprinted in
The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (2015), The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (2022), Lout Rampage (1991), The New Comics Anthology (1991), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993), The Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn: A Golden Treasury of His Complete Works (1994), Pussey! (1995), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1998), Twentieth Century Eightball (2002), Pussey! (2006), The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (2012)