''Cerebus'' is the first collected volume of Canadian

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Dave Sim's '' Cerebus'' comic book series. It is made up of the first 25 issues of ''Cerebus'', plus, as of the 11th edition, some strips that ran in '' Comics Buyer's Guide'' featuring Silverspoon, a parody of the comic strip ''

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''. While ''Cerebus'' is the first volume in the series, it was the third to be collected in " phonebook" form, after '' High Society'' and '' Church & State Volume I''.

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''Cerebus'' (though only the collected volume is so titled) comprises the first 25 issues of the '' Cerebus'' comic book series. Unlike the other volumes, ''Cerebus'' is not a cohesive story, but rather, most represented issues contain their own story, with certain stories lasting two or three issues. For the first dozen issues, the comic book was published bi-monthly. When Sim's partner and wife-to-be,

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, realized that the comic book was selling well enough to go monthly, Sim dropped his commercial art work and focused on ''Cerebus''. Though the first in the series, ''Cerebus'' was the third volume to be printed after '' High Society'' came out in 1986 and '' Church & State Volume I'' came out in 1987. ''Cerebus'' left the presses on August 15, 1987. The 11th and later editions contain extra pagesthe "Silverspoon" storyline from the '' Comics Buyer's Guide'' that took place between ''Cerebus'' #13 and #14. It was placed in the middle of the ''Cerebus'' " phonebook" starting on page 295. Sim said its appearance in the phonebook was important, otherwise the sudden appearance of

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is inexplicable; that the story had not been included before was an oversight.

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