Dates
- Cover date
- December 1994
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #3 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 - 4th printing
Fourth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- TMCM's origin · 12 pages
A high school kid who has never drank coffee gets tricked into going to a coffee shop by a girl that he likes. She says she wants to get coffee with him, but she really just intends to have him do her homework. Meanwhile, some coffee beans are being contaminated by a pile of DDT, irradiated by a nuclear test site, and thrown out of an airplane, where they conveniently land near the coffee shop where this kid is getting his first cup of coffee. Will these beans seal his fate, or will it be the birth of a new superhero?
- Cartoonist's Origin · 3 pages
Shannon Wheeler has just put the finishing touches on the Too Much Coffee Man origin story, and he takes part in an interview with an annoying radio DJ.
- Cartoonist's Origin (Second Half) · 3 pages
Shannon Wheeler goes out for coffee with some friends after his interview with the DJ, they discuss why they draw comics, who they draw them for, and if they'd rather be rich or famous.
- Relationship Aftertaste · 3 pages
A drunk man stumbles around in front of a building, he just got dumped by his girlfriend and she threw away his comic books. He throws up and passes out on the pavement.
- TMCM: An Introduction · 1 pages
Too Much Coffee Man describes all of the things he'll be able to do using the power of coffee, but when the effects of the coffee run out, he quickly begins to get nervous and insecure about the enormity of the tasks before him.
Reprinted in
Too Much Coffee Man's Parade of Tirade (1999), Too Much Coffee Man the Original Comic Books 1-9 (2022)