Madman

    (Kitchen Sink, 1992-1993, 1996)
™ and ©1993 Mike Allred
Tudra publishes firs, later printings by Kitchen Sink

Mike Allred’s Madman is one of the strongest and strangest comics of the 1990s. Madman is a disturbed young man who goes around in a baggy costume and a mask with the mouth sewed shut. He has an unusual sensitivity that allows him to sense the guilty secrets within people, but his inability to focus and concentrate gets him into all kinds of trouble. Allred’s handling of the material maximizes the disturbing qualities of the story, as he abruptly intrudes on an amusing sequence with an intensely violent image, or inserts a subversive element that makes you doubt the entire sense of reality he has created in Madman’s world. This psychotic, detached ambiguity is Madman’s singular achievement and one which gives it a literary gravity that is impossible to ignore.
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  • 1
    #1
    Mar 1992
    Cover: $3.95
    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    Flip-action corners
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  • 1-2
    #1 - 2nd printing
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    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
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  • 1-3
    #1 - 3rd printing
    Kitchen Sink Edition with cover by Mike Allred
    Oct 1993
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    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    Kitchen Sink publishes
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  • 1/A
    #1 Variation A
    Double-acetate Cover A by Mike Allred
    Jun 1996
    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    Published by Wizard Magazine and Kitchen Sink
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  • 2
    #2
    Apr 1992
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    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    2 copies from $15.00
  • 3
    #3
    May 1992
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    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    6 copies from $12.00
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    Book #1
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    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    The Oddity Odyssey; ca. 1993
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    Book #1 - 2nd printing
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    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    Collects series; The Oddity Odyssey
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    Book #1 - 3rd printing
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    W: Mike Allred  ·  A: Mike Allred
    Collects series; Published by Kitchen Sink; The Oddity Odyssey; ca. 1995
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