Doug Moench's "The Big Book of Conspiracies" (1995)
New York City: Paradox Press /DC Comics (book, comic), 1995.
11" 8.5" x 0.5", 224 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-56389-186-7.
The Big Book of Conspiracies by Doug Moench as published in softcover by Paradox Press and DC Comics (New York City) in 1995. Cover photo montage by Judy Johnson. Title page and disclaimer illustrations by Roger Langridge. Interior publication design by Brian Pearce. Lettering mostly by Bob Lappen, Gail Beckett, Agnes Pinaha, Willie Schubert, and Steve Smith, along with Roxanne Starr, L. Lois Buhalis, Ken Bruzenak, and Albert De Guzman. Edited by Bronwyn Carlton Taggart, with assistant editing by Jim Higgins. Introduction by Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius.
This is a graphic book of "comic-style interpretations of 39 of the world's weirdest conspiracy theories."
William S. Burroughs' rough likeness makes a cameo on page 52, in a critique of LSD, and on page 59, in reference to the importance of the number 23.
Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.
Contents:
- Rev. Ivan Stang: introduction
- Michael Avon Oeming: foreword
- 1: Classic Conspiracies:
- Robin Smith: "Coincidence of Consequence?"
- Randy DuBurke: "The Ones That Got Away"
- Danny Hellman: "Other Oswards"
- Russell Braun: "The King Killers"
- Barron Storey: "Kennedy-King Connections"
- Zina Saunders: "The RFK Conspiracy"
- 2. Big Brother's Greatest Hits:
- Alex Wald: "Psychedelic CIA"
- Graham Higgins: "Masking the Face of Mars"
- Kirk-Albert Etienne: "Brotherhood of the Magic Bullet"
- John Garcia: "Jonestown Electric Kool-Aid Conspiracy Test"
- Jeff Newman: "Jonestown's ULTRA Fallout"
- Paul Guinan: "Secret CIA Links"
- Ernie Stiner: "Choppers of the New World Order"
- 3. Trouble in Weirdland:
- Rick Geary: "Saucer Sorcery"
- Pat Broderick: "Moongate"
- Carl Critchlow: "No-Moon Gate"
- Roger Langridge: "Bay of Bush Pigs"
- Frank Quitely: "The Physicist and the Flying Saucers"
- Mitch O'Connell: "Synchronspiracy"
- Graham Manley: "Killing Castro"
- 4. Paranoia Potpourri:
- Bryan Talbot: "The Cannabis Conspiracy"
- Lennie Mace: "Conspiracy Quotes"
- Russ Heath: "The Sugar Daddy, the Stuttering Blonde, and the Silent Tramp"
- Art Wetherell: "Fractured Factoids"
- 5. Odd Passings and Other Assassinations:
- Donald David: "The Strange Death of Malcolm X"
- Michael Avon Oeming: "Come On, Baby, Douse My Fire"
- Tristan Shaene: "More Morrison Mojo"
- Tayyar Ozkan: "Peril in Plutonium"
- Justin Green: "Gal Killin'"
- 6. Historical Hysteria:
- Doncan Eagleson: "Lone Nut Family Tree"
- Bob Smith: "The Bloodline Secret"
- Kevin O'Neill: "Three Tentacles of Odessa"
- Brett Ewins: "The CIA/Nazi Axis"
- Greg LaRocque: "Fractured Factoids II"
- 7. The Conspiracy Conspiracy:
- Andrew Wendel: "The Casolaro Conspiracy Maze"
- Stephen Blue: "Further Adventures of the Octopus in Weirdland"
- Richard Piers Rayner: "Cabal of Looming Doom"
- Sean Scoffield: "The Aliens of Eden"
- Harry S. Robins: "Fractured Factoids III"
- Michael Avon Oeming: afterword
- Biographies
- Copyrights
- Bibliography








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