The Big Book of Urban Legends 1995 NEW 200 True Stories Too Good To Be True
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Publisher
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Other (January 1, 1995)
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Language
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English
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Paperback
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223 pages
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ISBN-10
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1563891654
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ISBN-13
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978-1563891656
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Item Weight
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1.35 pounds
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Dimensions
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8.5 x 0.76 x 10.75 inches
HARD TO FIND NEW
This collection of strange and bizarre anecdotal tales drawn
(ostensibly) from real life contains 200 stories that have circulated
across metropolitan areas--all invariably sworn to be true. "The Poodle
in the Microwave, " "The Mouse in the Coke Bottle, " and "The Accidental
Cannibals" are just a few of the legends presented in this volume.
Illustrated by artists from DC Comics. Mature readers.
Urban legends--those apocryphal, happened-to-a-friend-of-a-friend
stories of such outlandish incidents as "the microwaved pet" and
"alligators in the sewer"--are inherently fun, but they've never been as
entertainingly presented as in this collection of some 200 told in
comic strip format by a stunning variety of artists drawn from the
comics mainstream (e.g., Howard Chaykin, Keith Giffen, Dick Giordano),
underground (e.g., Tina Robbins, Justin Green, Shary Flenniken), and
everywhere in between. Although the contributors' work is of uniformly
high quality, some of them relate the tales in realistic, deadpan
fashion, whereas others take a cartoony approach that exaggerates the
already outlandish nature of the yarns. An introduction and commentary
by urban folklore scholar and entrepreneur Jan Harold Brunvand (The Vanishing Hitchhiker
[1981] et seq.) legitimizes the project, but as Brunvand points out,
comics are just another manifestation of the same popular culture that
spawned the legends in the first place. All told, the big paperback is a
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