American Splendor
The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
4th Printing
TOUANC Price Guide #n/a
1986
Doubleday
8 1/4" x 10 7/8"
$8.95
164 pages
Printrun: ?
Cover: Softcover
Guts: White
ISBN: 0-385-23195-4
Comments:

This is #23 of a signed, limited edition of 50 to commemorate the performance of Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor".  Adapted and directed by Vince Waldron, starring Dan Castellaneta.

See also:
SRUCC: American Splendor Series
Grand Comics Database: American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
Don Markstein's Toonopedia™: American Splendor

Artists:
Harvey Pekar - 1(s), 9-164(s)
Robert Crumb - 1(a), 7-8(t), 9-21(a), 25-30(a), 66-77(a), 84-90(a), 104-111(a), 143-143(a), 145-148(a), 160-162(a), 164(a)
Gary Dumm - 22-25(a), 31-65(a), 69-79(a), 112-123(a), 125-131(a), 135-141(a)
Greg Budgett - 31-65(p), 69-79(p), 112-123(p), 135-141(p)
Gerry Shamray - 91-103(a), 124-(a), 124(a), 132-134(a), 144(a)
Kevin Brown - 149-159(a)
Stories:
1 - cover
2 - signed plate of the show "American Splendor" signed by the cast
3 - title page
4 - blank
5 - title page and credits
6 - indicia
7 - Introduction
9 - The Harvey Pekar Name Story
13 - The Young Crumb Story
20 - A Fantasy
22 - Ozzie Nelson's Open Letter to Crumb
25 - How I Quit Collecting Records and Put Out a Comic Book With the Money I Saved
31 - The Day Before The Be In
44 - Awaking to the Terror of a New Day
53 - Awaking to the Terror of the Same Old Day
63 - Short Weekend: A Story About the Cosmic and the Ordinary
66 - A Compliment
67 - Hustin' Sides
72 - Jack the Bellboy and Mr. Boats
78 - Read This
84 - Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines
89 - Ridin' The Dog
91 - An Argument At Work
102 - Working Man's Nightmare
104 - Freddy Visits for the Weekend
112 - Ripoff Chick
124 - One Good Turn Deserves Another
125 - Leonard & Marie
132 - Noah's Ark
134 - Class Antagonism
135 - Emil
142 - The Maggies (Oral History)
144 - Kaparra
145 - American Splendor Assaults the Media
149 - Grubstreet, U.S.A.
160 - Hypothetical Quandary
163 - blank
164 - Untitled, back cover