Slam Bang is a small press

Small press

Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts...

 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 featuring art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, stories, and comics

Comics

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 submitted by a variety of contributors. Between 1985 and 1990, thirty-three issues of this digest comic

Digest size

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 were published. Publication was revived in 2003. It is currently produced as a 200-page digest in square bound graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

 format by Fan-Atic Press.

Many top small press

Small press

Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts...

 and professional creators of the 1980s contributed to the original incarnation of this anthology.

Fan-Atic Press is owned by Allen Freeman, an American artist who has been involved in a variety of comic-book and other graphics

Graphics

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endeavors for years.