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Cerebus (comics)

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No. of issues
  
1–25

Creators
  
Dave Sim

Issues
  
1-25

Author
  
Dave Sim

Publisher
  
Aardvark-Vanaheim

Followed by
  
High Society

Series
  
Cerebus

Published in
  
Cerebus

Originally published
  
1987

Page count
  
534

Date
  
1987

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Date of publication
  
December 1977 – April 1981

Similar
  
Dave Sim books, Other books

Cerebus is the first collected volume of Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's Cerebus comic book series. It is made up of the first 25 issues of Cerebus, plus, as of the 11th edition, some strips that ran in Comics Buyer's Guide featuring Silverspoon, a parody of the comic strip Prince Valiant.

Contents

While Cerebus is the first volume in the series, it was the third to be collected in "phonebook" form, after High Society and Church & State Volume I.

Synopsis

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First appearances

Cerebus
Bran Mak Muffin
Jaka
Red Sophia
Elrod the Albino (or Elrod of Melvinbone)
The Roach
Lord Julius

Publication

Cerebus (though only the collected volume is so titled) comprises the first 25 issues of the Cerebus comic book series. Unlike the other volumes, Cerebus is not a cohesive story, but rather each issue was its own story, with certain stories lasting two or three issues.

For the first dozen issues, the comic book was published bi-monthly. When Sim's partner and wife-to-be, Deni Loubert, realized that the comic book was selling well enough to go monthly, Sim dropped his commercial art work and focused on Cerebus.

Though the first in the series, Cerebus was the third volume to be printed after High Society came out in 1986 and Church & State Volume I came out in 1987. Cerebus left the presses on August 15, 1987.

The 11th and later editions contain extra pages—the "Silverspoon" storyline from the Comics Buyer's Guide that took place between Cerebus #13 and #14. It was placed in the middle of the Cerebus "phonebook" starting on page 295. Sim said its appearance in the phonebook was important, otherwise the sudden appearance of Lord Julius is inexplicable; that the story had not been included before was an oversight.

References

Cerebus (comics) Wikipedia