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CONTENTS
OPENING ACT by editor/curator Shelly Bond
FROM THEORY TO REVOLUTION - TIMELINE page 8 + throughout GHOST-WALK WITH ME A Tour of Canon Street by Torchlight by Tini Howard & Philip Bond
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HEY, AMATEUR! How To Spot A Galaxy by Emmeline Pidgen
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TALES FROM THE BLACK CROWN PUB by Rob Davis
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SWELL MAPS: Newcastle by Cathi Unsworth & Cara McGee
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KID LOBOTOMY #1 by Peter Milligan & Tess Fowler Almost Rockstar. Awkward Hotelier. Definitive Madman
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KID COMMANDO interview with Peter Milligan by Shelly Bond
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CUD: RICH AND STRANGE by William Potter, Carl Puttnam & Philip Bond The Rise and Fall and Rise of a British Indie Band. Live (at press time at least) from the Dying Embers Retirement Home!
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SLEEVE NOTES by William Potter Boisterous bass notes to follow along with the story
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SWELL MAPS: Leeds by Cathi Unsworth & Cara McGee
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HEY, AMATEUR! How To Rock Barre Chords by Will Potter & Katie Skelly
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ASSASSINISTAS #1 by Tini Howard & Gilbert Hernandez Modern Family, Retro Sass, Highly Trained to Kick Your Ass!
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TARGET PRACTICE Q&A with Howard & Hernandez
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HEY AMATEUR! How To Do An Ollie
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CANONBALL COMICS by Leah Moore & Dilraj Mann
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HEY, AMATEUR! How To Be A Badass Goth
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BUTTERSCOTCH & SODA by Peter Milligan & Kristian Rossi
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PRETTY IN PUNK by David Barnett & Martin Simmonds
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PUNKS NOT DEAD #1 by David Barnett & Martin Simmonds The Ghost. The Geek. The Geriatric Mod Superspy. Everything & the Bollocks!
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Q & A with the CASTING COUCH by Sid, Fergie & Dorothy Culpepper of DfEUA
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by Cindy Whitehead & Nicole Goux
by Leah Moore & Nanna Venter
SWELL MAPS: Glasgow
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BIOS/Staff Regulars
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by Cathi Unsworth & Cara McGee
BLACK CROWN HQ Shelly Bond, Editor • Chase Marotz, Associate Editor • Aditya Bidikar, Letterer Arlene Lo, Proofreader • Philip Bond, logo, publication design and general dogsbody Greg Goldstein, President & Publisher BLACK CROWN is a fully functioning curation operation based in Los Angeles by way of IDW Publishing. Accept No Substitutes!
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