SAN FRANCISCO COMIC BOOK #7. 1ST PRESSING! San Francisco Comic Book #7. Only Printing / March 1983 / 68 pages / Last Gasp. Last Gasp produced approximately 10,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. Gary Arlington was about 30 years old when he opened his 200-square-foot comic-book store in 1968 at 3339 23rd Street in the low-rent Mission District of San Francisco. With a charismatic lack of flair, Arlington dubbed his store The San Francisco Comic Book Company, which rapidly became a virtual headquarters for local underground artists, including Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin and John Thompson (among many others). Arlington's store wasn't just the first underground comix shop, it was probably the first comic-book-only store in the history of the world. COMIC CREATORS: Gary Arlington - managing editor, Spain Rodriguez (aka Algernon Backwash) - 1, 33-36, Larry Rippee - 2, Terry Boyce - 3-6, Roger H. Brand - 7-14 (art), 37-43, Barry Siegel - 7-14 (collaboration), 51-58 (collaboration), Bruce Simon - 7-14 (collaboration), 51-58 (collaboration), John Burnham - 15, 28 (art), 32, Tom Crow - 16-17, Melinda Gebbie - 18-27, Steve Mills - 28 (script), Bill Griffith - 29-31, Kim Deitch - 44-45, 50, unknown - 46, Dori Seda - 47-49, Steve LeClair - 59-62, Ron Turner - 63 (editorial), Willy Murphy - 63-65, Joel Beck - 66-67, Gilbert Shelton - 68. With thanks to comixjoint.com for their hard work in documenting these amazing pieces of art.

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