Description: The Comics Journal #32

Date: Jan 1977

Notes: Published by Fantagraphics, Executive Editor, Gary G. Groth, Editor Mike Catron. This is the first "real" issue of TCJ, formerly called The Nostalgia Journal in issue #31. This was when The Comics Journal was still competing as an adzine with Alan Light's The Buyer's Guide. Soon, TCJ would transition into the serious article magazine we all know and love. Includes Carl Barks cover. Writers include Gary Groth (including scathing review of Black Lightning #1), Dwight Decker, Doug Fratz, Jim Wilson, Mark Gruenwald, Jay Zilber, Mike Raub, Mike Catron and more. Newsprint, 32 pgs.

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