Description: The first full Sam & Max comic book was published in 1987. "The book came about because Steve Moncuse, creator of the black and white comic Fish Police, was having a lot of success publishing that book," Steve says. "He wanted to include a second title and asked if I would want to do a comic length Sam & Max story. I had spent the time between art school and the first Sam & Max book doing freelance illustration, much of it for sword-and-sorcery game magazines and covers for primitive computer games. I had penciled a bunch of forgettable Marvel comics but had never written, penciled and inked my own comic book before that."This comic book, Sam & Max Freelance Police #1, contained the 32-page Monkeys Violating the Heavenly Temple story (named after a firework). It contained many elements that became series staples, including appearances by Flint Paper, Mack Salmon, the DeSoto, Fizzball, and many of Steve's signature rats.In fact, much of Sam & Max was born from Steve's personal experiences. He had pet rats of his own and Fizzball, where players whack shaken beers with a bat, was invented by Steve and his friends.The first comic saw the Freelance Police chase down a purse snatcher, pop into an eclectic version of the Philippines complete with kangaroos, the Eiffel Tower, and a street vendor selling weasels on a stick, confront a mob of volcano-god worshipping cult members, almost get their guts ripped out but manage to save the day anyway, then head back home on an airplane that gets hijacked by a guy in a clown mask."It was a great feeling to see the first Fish Wrap book appear on a shelf," says Steve. "That book came out at the tail end of the black and white self-publishing boom and sold around 12,000 copies. It was always a treat to hear comic shop owners tell me how they tried to indoctrinate new Sam & Max readers with the book."In 1988, Steve transitioned from being a freelance illustrator into an animator at LucasArts, the games company owned by the company behind Star Wars. Steve worked on Sam & Max in his spare time, creating three new comic books for the pair.He would also create Sam & Max strips for the LucasArts newsletter, The Adventurer, putting the pair in situations that parodied the likes of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. The popularity led to Sam & Max starring in their own LucasArts game called Hit the Road.
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Publication Year: 1989
Type: Comic Book
Format: Single Issue
Tradition: US Comics
Era: Copper Age (1984-1991)
Series Title: Sam & Max
Publisher: Comico
