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Title: SNATCH COMICS No. 1 * First Printing
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Publisher:Apex Novelties
Date Published: October, 1968
Description: CGC certified: FN (6.0). Off-white pages. Grader notes: Foxing/soiling to back cover; spine stress lines breaks color; small paper lift right top of front cover.

CGC Census: 30 graded copies (22 Universal, 7 Qualified, 1 Restored).

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 7.0 sold for $1200 in 9/21; a Qualified 5.0 sold for $306 in 10/22.

Credits: R. Crumb cover and art. S. Clay Wilson art. First printing with correct issue points as noted in Jay Kennedy's Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide: "Has a single S. Clay Wilson drawing titled 'A Few Males Enjoy the Latest Batch of Captive Snatch' that stretches across both pages 10 and 11." Print run: 800 copies.Crumb's "Celebration of Sex": "For better or for worse, the influence of [S. Clay] Wilson and [Robert] Williams began to show in my work. I, too, became more of a rebel. I cast off the last vestiges of the pernicious influence of my years in the greeting card business.... I let it all out onto the page... the raging id... Blatant sexual images became a big thing, still happy and positive at first – a 'celebration' of sex. But the very sight of all those sweaty, bulbous cartoon characters fucking and sucking immediately drove away most of the female readers. As Trina [Robbins] says, I 'ruined' underground comics by encouraging all the younger boy artists to be bad and do comics about their own horrible sex fantasies. Ha ha!" – R. Crumb introduction, The Complete Crumb Comics vol. 5. Fantagraphics: 1990.______________________________________________________________

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