CHARLIE HEBDO SET TO PUBLISH ONE MILLION COPIES OF NEXT ISSUE.

PARIS—Charlie Hebdo is planning a bumper print run of one million copies for its next edition, in a defiant response to the brutal attack on its offices that killed the top editor and seven staffers and contributors.
“The paper will continue because they didn’t win,” Patrick Pelloux, a medical doctor and columnist for the irreverent French weekly, said in an tearful interview with iTele TV station, referring to the gunmen.
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The victims, including editor and cartoonist Stéphane Charbonnier, who signed his drawings as Charb, and veteran cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Jean Cabut, better known by his pen name Cabu, “didn’t die for nothing,” Dr. Pelloux said.
Charlie Hebdo—known for its satirical critique of all forms of authority, be it religion, government or the military—plans a shorter version of the next issue on Wednesday, with eight pages instead of the usual 16, said the magazine’s lawyer, Richard Malka.
However, he said it would publish one million copies. Charlie Hebdo normally sells about 30,000 copies a week.
Other media companies, including Le Monde and Vivendi SA’s Canal Plus, among others, have offered to help pay for the giant run, he said. Roughly €250,000 ($300,000) will come from a fund Google Inc. set up two years ago to settle a copyright fight with French newspapers, the fund’s director said.
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The next edition will feature pieces by regular staff and contributors only, Mr. Malka said, adding he may write a piece himself. Mr. Malka has co-written comic books with Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonists.
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Mr. Malka said the magazine’s contributors were still meeting to discuss the magazine’s future.
According to its masthead, the weekly had a staff of 29, with an undetermined number of occasional contributors.
Dr. Pelloux, who works as an emergency-room physician, was one of the first to arrive at the scene after the attack Wednesday and helped take care of his wounded colleagues and friends.
“It was horrible, many had passed away, they were shot execution-style,” he said. “We were able to save the others, who are feeling better this morning.”
He said the magazine’s staff was conscious of the threats they had received over the years.
“Charb knew that in all rallies held by fundamentalists all over the world, Charlie Hebdo was mentioned and targeted,” said Dr. Pelloux. “We were an enemy of paper and pencil.”
A rival French satirical publication, Siné Mensuel, said it would provide content—including articles and cartoons—for coming issues of Charlie Hebdo.
“Our cartoonists, editors, journalists raised their hands without hesitation,” Siné Mensuel said in an emailed statement.
Meanwhile, Charlie Hebdo memorabilia was trading aggressively on eBay.
Bids on auctions for some copies of the last issue of the magazine before the shooting were reaching several thousand euros. Previous issues, such as the ones with cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, were also reaching several hundred euros.