Simpsons Comics

This page is under construction. Please improve the article, or discuss improvements on the talk page.

Simpsons Comics 190px

Comic Series Information First published: November 1993 Publisher: Bongo Comics Number of issues: 145

Simpsons Comics is a monthly United States comic book series based on the animated TV show The Simpsons, published by Matt Groening's Bongo Comics group. The first issue was published in November 1993. Since then over one hundred issues have been released, with the 100th issue mainly the comic book equivalent of a clip show.

Since March 1997, the comic has also had a monthly UK edition. This mainly reprints the strips from the U.S. edition, along with pages featuring UK readers' drawings (currently Springfield Multiplex for movie parodies, and Springfield Cable Network for TV parodies) and Junk Mail, a letters page which also features generic drawings, along with the readers' frequent attempts to guess the identity of the woman who answers the letters (Karen Bates). The U.S. and Australian editions used to have Junk Mail, but it disappeared beginning with #114.

Also published is Simpsons Classics, which reprints strips from earlier editions of Simpsons Comics. The stories have, however, been reprinted in trade paperbacks by Harper Perennial since 1995.

From 1994 to 1999, excerpts from Simpsons Comics were printed in Disney Adventures, although the magazine is intended for children and Disney has no ownership of the franchise.

In the Latin edition, the magazines first published by the Mexican Grupo editorial vid, started in the same order in February, 1996.

The Australian editions include an Angry Dad comic.

As of November 2007, Simpsons Comics are publish in Serbia by Večernje novosti.

Issues

The American Simpsons Comics was originally published bimonthly, but beginning with #13, began monthly publication. It went back to bimonthly publication at #30 before finally resuming monthly publishing at #51.

Issue	Stories			Release date
	Main story	Secondary story 1	Secondary story 2
Simpsons Comics 1	"The Amazing Colossal Homer"	"Bart Simpson's Creepy Crawly Tales: "The Collector""		November 1993
Simpsons Comics 2	"Cool Hand Bart"	"Patty & Selma's Ill-Fated Romance: My Sister, My Homewrecker!"		January 1994
Simpsons Comics 3	"The Perplexing Puzzle of the Springfield Puma"	"Krusty, Agent of K.L.O.W.N."		March 1994
Simpsons Comics 4	"It's In The Cards"	"The Gnarly Adventures Of Busman"		May 1994
Simpsons Comics 5	"When Bongos Collide!"			July 1994
Simpsons Comics 6	"Be-Bop-A-Lisa"	"Chief Wiggum's Pre-Code Crime Comics: The End of El Barto"	"When Bongos Collide!"	September 1994
Simpsons Comics 7	"The Greatest D'oh! on Earth"	"McBain Comics: Dead to the Last Drop"		November 1994
Simpsons Comics 8	"I Shrink, Therefore I'm Small"	"Edna, Queen of the Congo: Jungle Bungle"		January 1995
Simpsons Comics 9	"The Purple Prose of Springfield"	"Homer Simpson's Pathetic Pal Barney Gumble: Asleep at the Well"		March 1995
Simpsons Comics 10	"Fan-Tasty Island"	"Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's Kwik-E-Comics: Apu's Incredible 96 Hour Shift (Without Having a Break)"		May 1995
Simpsons Comics 11	"Fallen Flanders"	"Homer On The Range: The Kwik-E and the Dead!"		July 1995
Simpsons Comics 12	"Survival of the Fattest"	"White-Knuckled War Stories: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Grunt!"		September 1995
Simpsons Comics 13	"Give Me Merchandising or Give Me Death!"	"Jimbo Jones' Wedgie Comics: Rebel Without a Clutch"		October 1995
Simpsons Comics 14	"To Heir I$ Homer"	"Itchy and Scratchy: This Blood's For You"	"Bongo Cantankerous Coot Classics: Nostalgia Ain't What it Used to Be"	November 1995
Simpsons Comics 15	"A Trip to Simpsons Mountain"	"Heinous Funnies: Kill 'Er Up With Regular"		December 1995
Simpsons Comics 16	"Waitresses in the Sky"	"Itchy and Scratchy: Lead it Bleed"	"Bumblebee Man in:!Ay, que lastima!"	January 1996
Simpsons Comics 17	"What's the Frequency, Simpson?"	"KrustyCo Presents: Dartin' Around"	"Headlight Comics: The Dame and the Clown"	February 1996
Simpsons Comics 18	"Get Fatty"	"Bart's Pal, Milhouse: The Quest for Yaz"		March 1996
Simpsons Comics 19	"Don't Cry for Me, Jebediah!"			April 1996
Simpsons Comics 20	"The Artist Formerly Known as Bart"			May 1996
Simpsons Comics 21	"Stand and Deliverance"			June 1996
Simpsons Comics 22	"Little Big Mart"			July 1996
Simpsons Comics 23	"Bart de Triomphe"	"Reverend Lovejoy's Hellfire Comics: Citizen Shame!"		August 1996
Simpsons Comics 24	"Send in the Clowns"	"Li'l Homey: Homey Alone"		September 1996
Simpsons Comics 25	"Marge Attacks!"	"Itchy and Scratchy #0: Game Called Because of Pain"		October 1996
Simpsons Comics 26	"Get off the Bus!"	"The Unbearable Lightness of Barney"	"Diner Violations"	November 1996
Simpsons Comics 27	"They Fixed Homer's Brain!"	"Krustyco Presents: Dartin' Around"	"Tales of the Briny Deep. Captain McCallister in: Down the Hatches, Boys!"	December 1996
Simpsons Comics 28	"Krustonia"	"Flanders' Big Score"		January 1997
Simpsons Comics 29	"Let's Get Ready to Rumble!"	"Maggie Simpson: Bringing Down Baby"		February 1997
Simpsons Comics 30	"Smitherses!"	"Bart and Milhouse: Bore Us-The Movie-Gruel"		April 1997
Simpsons Comics 31	"Radioactive Homer"	"The Official Bongo Comics Convention Survival Guide"		June 1997
Simpsons Comics 32	"Rhymes and Misdemeanors"	"The Bongos That Time Forgot"		August 1997
Simpsons Comics 33	"The Great Springfield Frink-Out"	"Tiger Teen!"		October 1997
Simpsons Comics 34	"Burnsie on Board"	*"The Simpsons Supporters Suggestion Spin Cycle"		December 1997
Simpsons Comics 35	"To Live and Diaper in Springfield"	"More Bongos That Time Forgot"		February 1998
Simpsons Comics 36	"The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth"	"Radioactive Man #160: The Heroic Life and Mortifying Death of Radioactive Man, Chapter 1"		April 1998
Simpsons Comics 37	"The Absent Minded Protester"	"Radioactive Man #160: The Heroic Life and Mortifying Death of Radioactive Man, Chapter 2"		June 1998
Simpsons Comics 38	"Dullards to Donuts"	"Radioactive Man #160: The Heroic Life and Mortifying Death of Radioactive Man, Chapter 3"		August 1998
Simpsons Comics 39	"Sense and Censorability"	"Radioactive Man #160: The Heroic Life and Mortifying Death of Radioactive Man, Chapter 4"		October 1998
Simpsons Comics 40	"Sideshow Simpsons"	"The Incredible Edible Exploits of Lard Lad: In Search of the Lost Donut Holes"		December 1998
Simpsons Comics 41	"Bart Simpson and the Krusty Brand Fun Factory"	"The Day the Nagging Stopped"		February 1999
Simpsons Comics 42	"The Homer Show"	"Classics Illustrated: Slobberwacky"		April 1999
Simpsons Comics 43	"Journey to the Cellar of the Kwik-E-Mart"	"Poochie!"		June 1999
Simpsons Comics 44	"The Prime of Miss Lisa Simpson"	"Bartman: Identity Crisis"		August 1999
Simpsons Comics 45	"Hamburger's Little Helper"	"Mr. Sparkle: Destroy All Manga!"		October 1999
Simpsons Comics 46	"Angels With Yellow Faces"	"Picture Perfect"		December 1999
Simpsons Comics 47	"The Rise and Fall of Bartholomew J. Simpson"	"It's a Wonderful Slice"	"Where Has All The Flour Gone?" Note: it is revealed in this issue that when Maggie entered high school Gerald, the one eye-browed baby got her knocked up and they got married and had a baby	February 2000
Simpsons Comics 48	"Tic-Tac-D'oh!"	"The Official Cockamamie's Mail Order Cult-alog of Cool Pop-Cultural Collectibles"		April 2000
Simpsons Comics 49	"Maggie Come Home"	"Lisa Simpson, Storeroom Raider"		June 2000

• Issue #50 - August 2000
• "Wall or Nothing"
• "Bartman: The 1001 Costumes of Bartman"
• "Itchy and Scratchy: Love Gory"
• "Krusty Comics: Krusty's 11"
• "Radioactive Man #99: Planet of the Strange O's"
• "Lisa Comics: Li'l Goodfellas"
• Issue #51 - October 2000
• "Bart and Lisa and Marge and Homer and Maggie (to a lesser extent) vs. Thanksgiving"
• "What Would Possibly Happen If...Cletus Went to College?"
• Monthly Issues:
• Issue #52 - November 2000
• "Worst Christmas Ever!"
• "A Springfield Christmas Carol"
• Issue #53 - December 2000
• "The Beer Boys"
• "Around Town With Ned Flanders"
• Issue #54 - January 2001
• "Tanks for Nothing"
• "Itchy and Scratchy: Bash to the Future"
• "Homer vs. the Wallpaper"
• "Bart Simpson: Fork it Over"
• Issue #55 - February 2001
• "Siege on Evergreen Terrace"
• "Duff Daddy"
• Issue #56 - March 2001
• "The Yes-Man Who Would Be King"
• "Ned Flanders: Blind Luck"
• Issue #57 - April 2001
• "How The Vest Was Won!"
• "A Swingin' Affair"
• Issue #58 - May 2001
• "Mayor Me a Little"
• "Lisa's Historical Dream"
• Issue #59 - June 2001
• "Faking the Band"
• "The Simpsons Comic Strip: A Tale of Grandpa and Bart or 5 Cents, Please"
• "Kent's State"
• Issue #60 - July 2001
• "The Man With Two Wives"
• "Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl: My Sister, My Sidekick"
• Issue #61 - August 2001
• "The Paper Chase"
• "Asphalt Bungle"
• Issue #62 - September 2001
• "Bart Simpson's Bible Stories: The Prodigal Son/Abraham's Sacrifice/Noah's Ark"
• "A Bongo Blast From the Past--Krusty: Give a Hoot, Stay in School"
• Issue #63 - October 2001
• "The Bogey Man"
• "History O'Scotland's Greatest Gift to the World: Golf"
• "If Homer Simpson Invented Golf"
• Issue #64 - November 2001
• "Judge Marge"
• "Malibu Stacy: Stacy's Busy Day"
• Issue #65 - December 2001
• "Viva Bart"
• "Beauty School Hellcats"
• Issue #66 - January 2002
• "Cruisin' for a Bruisin'"
• "...So You Want To Work for Globex, Huh?"
• Issue #67 - February 2002
• "Growing Pains!"
• "The Abominable Dr. Colossus"
• Issue #68 - March 2002
• "Merchants of Vengeance"
• "Dr. Nick Riviera in Crime Family Practice"
• Issue #69 - April 2002
• "In Burn$ We Tru$t"
• "How Marge Got Her Curtains Back"
• Issue #70 - May 2002
• "feed Me"
• "Aesop's Fables"
• Issue #71 - June 2002
• "Simpson-Sideshow Sibling Smackdown"
• "Marge Simpson in: A Recipe for Disaster"
• Issue #72 - July 2002
• "Homer's Run"
• "The Secret Origin of Sideshow Mel"
• Issue #73 - August 2002
• "Day of the Nerd"
• "Bummer Vacation"
• Issue #74 - September 2002
• "Laughter is the Worst Medicine"
• "Down Home Doctorin' Time, with Dr. Hibbert"
• Issue #75 - October 2002
• "The Permanent Record Room"
• "Truant or False"
• "What About If...Skinner Was Scottish?"
• Issue #76 - November 2002
• "Bard Boiled"
• Issue #77 - December 2002
• "The Many Faces of Bob"
• "Homer vs. the Raccoon"
• Issue #78 - January 2003
• "The Buck Stops Everywhere"
• Issue #79 - February 2003
• "Homer for the Holidays"
• Issue #80 - March 2003
• "All Fired Up"
• Issue #81 - April 2003
• "Lisa Simpson's Book Club"
• Issue #82 - May 2003
• "Ned the Simpson"
• "Lisa Goes to Camp"
• Issue #83 - June 2003
• "The Homer Effect"
• "How I Spent My Summer Vacation/To Hell and Back"
• "Brain Drain"
• Issue #84 - July 2003
• "The Principal of the Thing"
• Issue #85 - August 2003
• "The Simpson Family Circus"
• "Crap that No One Wanted"
• Issue #86 - September 2003
• "Yellow Crush"
• Issue #87 - October 2003
• "Hall to a Cat"
• Issue #88 - November 2003
• "License to Kilt"
• Issue #89 - December 2003
• "Lisa in the Middle"
• Issue #90 - January 2004
• "Homer's America"
• "Do the Copyright Thing"
• Issue #91 - February 2004
• "3000's Company"
• Issue #92 - March 2004
• "The Burger Kings of Comedy"
• Issue #93 - April 2004
• "Hotfoot in the Park"
• Issue #94 - May 2004
• "24/7 Heaven"
• Issue #95 - June 2004
• "Coach Me if You Can"
• Issue #96 - July 2004
• "A Tale Of Two Pin Pals"
• Issue #97 - August 2004
• "Feud, Glorious Feud"
• Issue #98 - September 2004
• "The Return of Xt'tapalatakettle"
• Issue #99 - October 2004
• "Marge Simpson Living"
• Issue #100 - November 2004
• "Clip Clip Hooray!"
• Issue #101 - December 2004
• "Sofa So Good"
• Issue #102 - January 2005
• "Uncle Burns"
• Issue #103 - February 2005
• "Anchormom"
• Issue #104 - March 2005
• "The Duffman Cometh!"
• Issue #105 - April 2005
• "Dr. Nick at Night"
• Issue #106 - May 2005
• "Simpsons: The Musical"
• Issue #107 - June 2005
• "To Kill a Mocking Bart"
• Issue #108 - July 2005
• "Big House Homer"
• Issue #109 - August 2005
• "Now Museum, Now You Don't!"
• Issue #110 - September 2005
• "Bad News Bearer"
• Issue #111 - October 2005
• "Know It All in the Family"
• Issue #112 - November 2005
• "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase Quickly Cancelled Comic Book Cavalcade"
• Issue #113 - December 2005
• "Little Orphan Bart"
• Issue #114 - January 2006
• "Ring-a-Ding Springfield"
• Issue #115 - February 2006
• "Clown Therapy"
• "Verti-go-areeno"
• Issue #116 - March 2006
• "Mall or Nothing"
  File:Simpsons 116 Oroboros 001.jpg

  An American Issue
• Issue #117 - April 2006
• "Sandwiches are Forever"
• Issue #118 - May 2006
• "The 'X'-Men"
• Issue #119 - June 2006
• "The Flunky!"
• Issue #120 - July 2006
• "Homer Drops the Ball!"
• Issue #121 - August 2006
• "The Town that Time Forgot"
• Issue #122 - September 2006
• "One Plus Two Equals Zero"
• Issue #123 - October 2006
• "Bobbing For Vengeance"
• Issue #124 - November 2006
• "'Til Ned Do Us Part"
• "Angry Dad in 'The Roller Skate'"
• Issue #125 - December 2006
• "The Hills Have Hicks"
• "Maggie's Little Helper"
• "Bake Love, Not War"
• Issue #126 - January 2007
• "1001 Arabian Nuts"
• "Ala-Diddly-Addin and His Magic Lamp"
• "Apu Baba and the Four Thieves"
• "Sinbart the Sailor"
• Issue #127 - February 2007
• "Simpson Family Robinson Crusoe"
• Issue #128 - March 2007
• "25"
• Issue #129 - April 2007
• "You'd Better Sloth Around"
• Issue #130 - May 2007
• "Marge the Sellout"
• Issue #131- June 2007
• "The Simpsons Comics Internationale!"
• Issue #132- July 2007
• "A Brand New Burns, Part One!"
• Issue #133- August 2007
• "A Brand New Burns, Part Two!"
• Issue #134- September 2007
• "In The Swim"
• Issue #135- October 2007
• "The Bald Man and the Sea"
• Issue #136- November 2007
• "Bowl Me Over"
• Issue #137- December 2007
• "The Last Fat Man"
• Issue #138- January 2008
• "Tsunami, Tsunami, Baloney!"
• Issue #139- February 2008
• "Leave 'Em In 'Striches"
• Issue #140- March 2008
• "Mow Money"
• Issue #141- April 2008
• "Grampa Flanders"
• Issue #142- May 2008
• "Frycooks of the Carribean'"
• Issue #143- June 2008
• "Not Duff Enough"
• Issue #144- July 2008
• Another Riveting Issue
• Ragin' Abe Simpson and the Flying Hellfish in: War is Smelly!
• Ragin' Abe Simpson's Battle Round-up
• Issue #145- August 2008
• Who is the Fattest Man Alive?
• Worst Competition Ever!
• Marge Simpson: Forensic Homemaker

Trade Paperbacks

Issues of Simpsons Comics have been collected in the following Trade Paperbacks:

Simpsons Comics Extravaganza .................	collects issues #1-4	(ISBN 0-06-095086-2 -		November 16, 1994)
Simpsons Comics Spectacular ...................	collects issues #6-9	(ISBN 0-06-095148-6 -		August 2, 1995)
Simpsons Comics Simps-o-rama ................	collects issues #11-14	(ISBN 0-06-095199-0 -		July 3, 1996)
Simpsons Comics Strike Back! .................	collects issues #15-18	(ISBN 0-06-095212-1 -		November 20, 1996)
Simpsons Comics Wingding ......................	collects issues #19-23	(ISBN 0-06-095245-8 -		June 18, 1997)
Simpsons Comics on Parade .....................	collects issues #24-27	(ISBN 0-06-095280-6 -		June 1, 1998)
Simpsons Comics Big Bonanza .................	collects issues #28-31	(ISBN 0-06-095317-9 -		February 1, 1999)
Simpsons Comics A-Go-Go .......................	collects issues #10, 32-35	(ISBN 0-06-095566-X -		March 1, 2000)
Simpsons Comics Unchained .....................	collects issues #36-42	(ISBN 0-06-000797-4 -		March 1, 2002)
Simpsons Comics Madness .......................	collects issues #43-48	(ISBN 0-06-053061-8 -		April 1, 2003)
Simpsons Comics Belly Buster ...................	collects issues #49, 51, 53-56	(ISBN 0-06-058750-4 -		February 3, 2004)
Simpsons Comics Barn Burner ...................	collects issues #57-61, 63	(ISBN 0-06-074818-4 -		February 15, 2005)
Simpsons Comics Jam-Packed Jamboree ..	collects issues #64-69	(ISBN 0-06-087661-1 -		April 11, 2006)
Simpsons Comics Beach Blanket Bongo ....	collects issues #71-75, 77	(ISBN 0-06-123126-6 -		April 10, 2007)
Simpsons Comics: Dollars to Donuts	collects issues #78, 80, 82-84			April 2008
Simpons Comics: Hit the Road!	collects issues #85, 86, 88-90			April 2009
Simpsons Comics: Get Some Fancy Book Learnin'	collects issues #62, 70, 76, 126, 148

Additional issues not included in the Simpsons Comics TPBs have been collected in the following volumes:

Issue #5 in Bartman: The Best of the Best!	(ISBN 0-06-095151-6 -	December 6, 1995)
Issue #50 in Simpsons Comics Royale	(ISBN 0-06-093378-X -	March 6, 2001)
Issue #52 in The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger	(ISBN 0-06-072338-6 -	October 12, 2004)
Issue #79 in The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger	(ISBN 0-06-072338-6 -	October 12, 2004)

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, comics are around a year behind. The UK Simpsons Comics have junkmail section. Past issues are collected in both The Best of the Simpsons and Simpsons Treasure Trove. They also have Bart Simpson Comics in the UK.

See also

• Bart Simpson Comics
• Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror