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- ↑ World Famous Comics >> Baker's Dozen - Bill Baker, Jan 05, 2005
- ↑ "The Obverse Quarterly Announced". Archived from the original on 2011-04-19. Retrieved 2011-05-02.
- ↑ New Zenith the Albino Story from MM Archived 2014-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ SF Tidbits for 4/16/11 Archived 2011-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Zenith Lives!
