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Street Angel | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Slave Labor Graphics |
Schedule | Irregular |
Format | Limited series |
Publication date | March 2004 – March 2005 |
No. of issues | 5 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Jim Rugg Brian Maruca |
Written by | Jim Rugg Brian Maruca |
Artist(s) | Jim Rugg |
Letterer(s) | Jim Rugg |
Collected editions | |
Street Angel | ISBN 1-59362-012-8 |
Street Angel is an alternative comic book limited series by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca. It was published in 2004 by Slave Labor Graphics, and lasted five issues. In 2016 Jim Rugg would start posting new and old street angel comics online as webcomics [1] . 5 graphic novels and a one shot [2] were later released by Image Comics between 2017 and 2018, two of them being re-releases of web comics. These books were printed at a larger scale than the original issues, hard cover and full color. They were collected as a single trade paperback in 2019. [3]
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