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The Big Book of Urban Legends #[nn]
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This volume from DC's Factoid Books imprint collects 200 urban legends presented as short, illustrated stories. Covering a wide range of modern folklore—from hook-handed killers to vanishing hitchhikers—it blends true accounts with tales too strange to verify, all adapted by various writers and artists in a comics format.
Contains 198 stories
The Hook
The Killer in the Back Seat
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Another Vanishing Hitchhiker
The Nut and the Tire Nuts
The Runaway Grandmother
Mystery Tour
The Day Trip
The Slasher Under the Car
The Severed Fingers
End of His Rope
Push Starting the Car
The Wonder Car
The Rattle in the Cadillac
The Solid Cement Cadillac
Thread the Needle
The Corpse in the Car
The Decapitated Motorcyclist
The Philanderer's Porsche
The Deathcar
The Baby on the Roof
The Nude in the RV
The Nun and the Volkswagen
The Microwaved Pet
The Mexican Pet
The Choking Doberman
Another Choking Doberman
The Trapper and His Dog
Not My Dog
The Poisoned Pussycat
The Hare Dryer
The Dead Cat in the Package
Another Dead Cat in a Package
The Dog's Dinner
The Tummy Ache
The Kentucky Fried Rat
The Spider in the Hairdo
The Hunter's Nightmare
The Deer Departed
Flopsy's Revenge
Shooting the Bull
The Dog in the High-rise
The Flying Kitten
Kitty Takes the Rap
The Bump in the Carpet
The Fatal Boot
Alligators in the Sewer
The Moving Cactus
The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs
Two Babysitters and a Man Upstairs
The Hippie Baby Sitter
Baby Gets the Chair
The Licked Hand
The Boyfriend's Death
The Fatal Tee
The Graveyard Wager
The Well to Hell
The Devil in the Dancehall
Ghost Mom
The Accidental Cannibals
Islamic Justice
The Mutilated Bride
The Roommate's Death
The Other Roommate's Death
The Message Under the Stamp
Special Delivery
A Bug in Her Ear
The X-ray
The Body in the Bed
Tapping the Admiral
Brush with Death
The Poinsettia Myth
Mommy's Little Helper
The Last Kiss
The Mortician Always Rings Twice
Curses! Broiled Again!
Fish Out of Water
The Smashed VW Bug
The Lost Wreck
Pencils HAKInks HAK
The Wrong Rest Stop
Cruise Control
The Pig on the Road
Fear of Frying
The Body on the Car
Old vs. Young
The Failed Suicide
Another Failed Suicide
The Accidental Gerbil
What Killed the Dog
The Stuck Santa
The Unlucky Contacts
The Ski Accident
The Heel in the Grate
The Golf Bag
The Sawed Off Fingers
The Wonder of Gas
Barrel of Bricks
Bad News Bearers
The Exploding Toilet
Snakebite
The Turkey Neck
The Nude Surprise Party
Another Nude Surprise Party
Filmed in the Act
The Stuck Couple
Sex with the Wrong Partner
The Blind Date
The Unexpected Inheritance
The Unzipped Mechanic
The Bothered Bride
The Bad Bachelorette
The Baby Train
The Baby Headache
The Bullet Through the Balls
Aids Mary
Superglue Revenge
The Sheriff's Daughter
The Fart in the Dark
Walking the Dog
State Police Don't Have Balls
The Misunderstood Note
Super Hero Hijinks
The Butcher's Prank
The Blind Man
The Nude Housewife
Green Stamps
License to Practice
The Cat and the Nude Man
The Unstealable Car
The Double Theft
The Robber Who Was Hurt
Good Neighbors
The Arrest
The Dishonest Note
The Biker and the Smoker
The Subway Samaritan
The Cut Off Finger
Take Him, Wagger
The Kidney Heist
The Stolen Specimen
Siphon Surprise
You Can't Judge a Book...
The Jogger's Billfold
The Cookie Caper
The Hairdresser's Error
The 2 Hitchhikers
The Hairy-Armed Hitchhiker
The Avon Flasher
Just Say No!
Mother Knows Best
The Grocery Scam
The Videotaped Theft
The Toothbrush Story
Take My Tickets, Please!
The Number of the Beast
The Truth About M&M's
Gross-out Gossip
The Mouse in the Coke Bottle
The Killer Carpet
The Bedbug Letter
The Tapeworm Diet
Cabbage Patch Tragedy
Red Velvet Cake
The Roughneck's Revenge
Fixing the Flue
The Lover's Telephone Revenge
The Bug Under the Rug
When There's a Will There's a Way.
Inner Golf
Hot Potato
All Aboard!
Lockout at 20,000 Feet
Ghost Pilot
911 [Nine-Eleven]
A Stitch in Time
Burying St. Joe
New Identity
The Lie Detector
Bookkeeper in a Brothel
The Elevator Incident
Bozo the Clown's Blooper
Paul is Dead
Jesus on the Thruway
Rescuing Richard Nixon
The Dormitory Surprise
Positive Reinforcement
Late for Class
The Resubmitted Term Paper
The Final Exam
Exam Scams
Toll Booth Pranks
Gnome Come Home
The Barometer Problem
The Homemade Lie Detector
Culture Clash
Letters ?\
Tea and Sugar
The Obedient Tourists
Biographies
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Full credits
writer Jan Harold Brunvand
artist, inker Hunt Emerson
cover pencils, inks Roger Langridge
cover pencils, inks Gregory Homs
Reprints
↩ Reprints Pulpman #4 (2009)
Reprinted in Il Corvo Presenta #1 (1995), DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes #[nn] (1995)
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