Oddjob is a

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series published by

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and created by

Ian Smith Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to ...

and Tyson Smith, featuring Moe, Investigator of the Odd. The comic is an action/humor series with absurdist tendencies. ''Oddjob'' was published in bimonthly from Spring 1999-May 2001. All eight issues (and an additional story) were collected in a trade paperback by Slave Labor in 2003.

Characters

Moe is assisted by the failed

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Robin and a former baseball player Moose Mulligan, who owns the bar The Spittoon (the base of their operation). Some of their adversaries include

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s and living

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men. {{comics-stub Slave Labor Graphics titles 1999 comics debuts 2001 comics endings