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LOT OF 33 UNDERGROUND COMIX - MANY 1ST PRESSINGS
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LOT OF 33 UNDERGROUND COMIX - MANY 1ST PRESSINGS - ZAP, CRUMB, GRIFFIN, KINNEY, MORE

Occult Laff-Parade #1 ! ! ! - SIGNED BY ARTIST JAY KINNEY ON INSIDE FRONT COVER - VERY RARE ! ! ! FIRST PRESSING !
- Only Printing / August, 1973 / 36 pages / The Print Mint. Any underground comic book that came along towards the end of 1973 had really bad timing. The Supreme Court decision that established the definition of obscenity was handed down in June of that year. After that landmark ruling, selling "head comix" at your head shop became potentially dangerous not only to your livelihood, but your freedom. There were other factors that led to the demise of the underground comic movement, but the bottom line was that as a commercial venture, it was dying. The Print Mint produced approximately 20,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. COMIC CREATORS: Jay Kinney, Rick Griffin, Justin Green, Ned Sonntag, Kim Deitch, Larry S. Todd, Rory Hayes. 

HOT CRACKERS UNDERGROUND COMICS #2. Only Printing / 1972 / 36 Pages / Last Gasp Eco-Funnies. Peter D. Clapp's artwork in Hot Crackers is a bit uneven, but the stories are rather good. You'll laugh out loud at "The Devil Gets Me" and "Werz'z" features an alien she-devil seeking a silver phallus, but she is unwittingly trapped in a race against time as a mad scientist plots to take over the world with four-headed chickens! Last Gasp printed approximately 20,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. COMIC CREATORS: Peter D. Clapp - 1-6, 17 (art), 18-36 K. Corbett - 17 (story concept). 

Dirty Laundry Comics #1 ! - 1974-1978 / Cartoonists Co-op Press / Last Gasp. Aline Kominsky was 22 years old when she met the 28-year-old Robert Crumb in 1971 during a party at Terry Zwigoff and Kathy Goodell's house in San Francisco. Dirty Laundry Comics #1 was published by Keith Green and Cartoonists Co-op Press in the summer of 1974. 1st Printing / July, 1974 / 36 pages / Cartoonist's Co-op Press. Dirty Laundry Comics #1 features a single, rambling story that mixes insights on Robert Crumb's and Aline Kominsky's budding love relationship with a spaceship fantasy featuring LSD guru Timothy Leary. While the comic is unpolished in places, particularly the places where Aline got lazy with her drawing, it provides a visceral if brief portal into Robert and Aline's romance. There are two printings of Dirty Laundry Comics #1. The 1st printing is by Cartoonist's Co-op Press and has a 75-cent cover price. The 2nd printing is by Last Gasp and has a $1.00 cover price. It is currently unknown how many copies of the 1st printing were printed, but Last Gasp printed 10,000 copies of the 2nd printing, so I would speculate that Keith Green and Cartoonist's Co-op Press printed 10,000 copies of the 1st printing. COMIC CREATORS: Robert Crumb - 1-36 (collaboration) and Aline Kominski - 1-36 (collaboration). 

Dirty Laundry Comics #2 - Dirty Laundry Comics #2 - 1st Printing / January, 1978 / 36 pages / Last Gasp. Dirty Laundry Comics #2 was published in January, 1978, when Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky were about to be married and well-settled in Winters, California. The 30-page feature story covers three years in Robert and Aline's life and is a masterpiece of autobiographical comics. It is funny, tragic and insightful, but above all searingly honest as it exposes the peculiar reality of Robert and Aline's relationship. The story is followed by a very entertaining three-page section of fan letters. There are two printings of this comic book, both by Last Gasp. The 1st printing (10,000 copies) has a $1.00 cover price and the 2nd printing (unknown copies) has a $1.25 cover price. 

Griffith Observatory #1 ! ! ! - Only Printing / October, 1979 / 36 pages / Rip Off Press. Griffith Observatory is a compilation of mostly one-page comic strips Bill Griffith produced for the Rip Off Press Syndicate between 1977 and 1979. However, most people in Los Angeles recognize the Griffith Observatory as an astonomy-themed tourist attraction and planetarium nestled on top of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles. "What if the telescope was turned down, you know, on humans instead of up at the stars?" Rip Off Press printed approximately 15,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. COMIC CREATOR: Bill Griffith - 1-36. 

Light #1 - Only Printing / June 1971 / 28 pages / The Print Mint. Light Comitragies, a comic book commonly known as Light, is one of those comics that demonstrates the late Greg Irons extraordinary virtuosity with pen, ink and color, and provides the strongest foreshadowing of his future (all-too-brief) career as a tattoo artist. Light is not your standard comic book, as half the book seems to be comprised of a storyboard for an animation project and the other half appears to be a mini-portfolio of Irons' illustration. But these two halves are melded together with a transition that fuses them into one elaborate narrative. Light also marks one of the first comic book collaborations between writer Tom Veitch and artist Greg Irons, which is no small event considering the extraordinary body of work they would produce over the next few years. The Print Mint produced approximately 20,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. Veitch's The Luis Armed Story, briefly excerpted in the book on the inside back cover, was first published in Germany in 1965 and considered an avant-garde masterpiece at the time. It is a novel chronicling the "Armed family's strange quest for spiritual salvation, cosmic truth and chili con carne across the Americas." COMIC CREATORS: Greg Irons, Tom Veitch, Dave Sheridan. 

Mother's Oats Comix #2 - 2nd/3rd Printing / August, 1971 / 36 pages / Rip Off PressMother's Oat Comix #2 is one of the most hallucinogenic-inspired undergrounds ever created (and there were many). Be sure to keep a magnifying glass handy for scrutinizing the tiny art details and the (sometimes) very tiny words. Highlights include Fred Schrier's "Word Salad" and Dave Sheridan's "Fun House." These stories probably offer the trippiest underground comics ever published, infused with ornate and detailed illustrations and peppered with innovative sound effects (a la Don Martin) as the characters venture ambitiously into strange worlds. There are three known printings of this book, all by Rip Off Press and all with 50-cent covers. It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed for any of the printings. The 1st printing has no copyright information printed in the book. Copyright information for the 2nd and 3rd printings has been added to the inside front cover. The only definitive way to tell the latter two printings apart is that the 1st printing uses glossy paper stock for the covers and the 2nd printing uses matte cover stock. COMIC CREATORS: Dave Sheridan, Dr. E. Ambro, Fred Schrier, Jack Jackson, Greg Irons, Tom Veitch, S. Lipney, Marks. 

Mother's Oats Comix #3 - 2nd Printing / April, 1977 / 52 pages / Rip Off Press. Mother's Oat Comix #3 came out six years after the previous issue and by then the social climate (as well as the world of underground comics) had radically changed, which means the content here did, too. Dave Sheridan and Fred Schrier are still the major contributors and the quality of the artwork is nearly as good as the second issue, but the story plots and tone are just a bit less mind-bending than before. There are two printings of this book, both by Rip Off Press and both with 75-cent covers. It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed for either of the printings. The 1st printing states "1976" at the top of the front cover and the 2nd printing states "Rip Off Press" at the top of the cover. COMIC CREATORS: Dave Sheridan, Fred Schrier, Gilbert Shelton, Kliban, Ron Siegel. 

MYSTIC FUNNIES #2 - 2nd printing. R. CRUMB UNDERGROUND COMIC

Paradise, An Interplanetary Fantasy #1!!! - Only Printing / November, 1975 / 36 pages / John Aulenta self-published two comic books in the '70s; the first one in 1973 (Heart) and this one in 1975. Paradise, An Interplanetary Fantasy includes comics about space aliens and concepts of God, COMIC CREATORS: John Aulenta printed approximately 5,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. 

SAN FRANCISCO COMIC BOOK #5. 1ST PRESSING! San Francisco Comic Book #5. Only Printing / January 1980 / 36 pages / The Print Mint. The Print Mint produced approximately 10,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. COMIC 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. CREATORS: Gary Arlington - managing editor, Roger H. Brand - production, Willy Murphy - 1, 36, Jim Osborne - 2, John Burnham - 3-11 (art), Larry S. Todd - 3-11 (concept), Jay Lynch - 12,Trina Robbins - 13-15, Bill Griffith - 16-18, 30-34, Rory Hayes - 16-17 (quotes), Joel Beck - 19-28, Kim Deitch - 29, Robert Williams - 35. 

SAN FRANCISCO COMIC BOOK #6. 1ST PRESSING! San Francisco Comic Book #6. Only Printing / February 1981 / 52 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, Roger H. Brand - production, Willy Murphy - 1, 36, Jim Osborne - 2, John Burnham - 3-11 (art), Larry S. Todd - 3-11 (concept), Jay Lynch - 12, Trina Robbins - 13-15, Bill Griffith - 16-18, 30-34, Rory Hayes - 16-17 (quotes), Joel Beck - 19-28, Kim Deitch - 29,Robert Williams - 35. 

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. 

ZAP COMIX #1 ! ! !. Zap Comix #1. 3rd Printing / February 1968 / 28 pages / Apex Novelties. Zap Comix #1 is justly lauded for changing the comic-book paradigm. The author's wife and friends hawked this to hippies on Haight Street in 1968. No other publication had a fraction of the impact that Robert Crumb's Zap Comix #1 had when it came out in San Francisco on February 25, 1968. In the spring of '68, Crumb showed up on Griffin's front porch and asked him to contribute to Zap Comix. Griffin suggested his friend Victor Moscoso would be another rock poster artist who'd be interested in the comics medium. Griffin showed Moscoso Zap #1 and Moscoso was floored. "I saw potential in it that I wasn't seeing up to that point," Moscoso said. "I was ready for it." Moscoso led the way to forming a legal partnership with Crumb, Wilson and Griffin and registering Zap as a trademark. From that point forward, all decisions about the comic book were made as a collective, with each member wielding veto power on future contributors. 

ZAP COMIX #1 ! ! !. Zap Comix #1. 3rd Printing / February 1968 / 28 pages / Apex Novelties. Zap Comix #1 is justly lauded for changing the comic-book paradigm. The author's wife and friends hawked this to hippies on Haight Street in 1968. No other publication had a fraction of the impact that Robert Crumb's Zap Comix #1 had when it came out in San Francisco on February 25, 1968. In the spring of '68, Crumb showed up on Griffin's front porch and asked him to contribute to Zap Comix. Griffin suggested his friend Victor Moscoso would be another rock poster artist who'd be interested in the comics medium. Griffin showed Moscoso Zap #1 and Moscoso was floored. "I saw potential in it that I wasn't seeing up to that point," Moscoso said. "I was ready for it." Moscoso led the way to forming a legal partnership with Crumb, Wilson and Griffin and registering Zap as a trademark. From that point forward, all decisions about the comic book were made as a collective, with each member wielding veto power on future contributors. 

ZAP COMIX #2 ! ! ! 2nd Printing / August 1968 / 52 pages / Apex Novelties Zap Comix is justly lauded for changing the comic-book paradigm. The author's wife and friends hawked this to hippies on Haight Street in 1968. No other publication had a fraction of the impact that Robert Crumb's Zap Comix #1 had when it came out in San Francisco on February 25, 1968. In the spring of '68, Crumb showed up on Griffin's front porch and asked him to contribute to Zap Comix. Griffin suggested his friend Victor Moscoso would be another rock poster artist who'd be interested in the comics medium. Griffin showed Moscoso Zap #1 and Moscoso was floored. "I saw potential in it that I wasn't seeing up to that point," Moscoso said. "I was ready for it." Moscoso led the way to forming a legal partnership with Crumb, Wilson and Griffin and registering Zap as a trademark. From that point forward, all decisions about the comic book were made as a collective, with each member wielding veto power on future contributors. Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson.

ZAP COMIX #6 ! ! !  1st Printing / January 1973 / 52 pages / Apex Novelties. Zap Comix is justly lauded for changing the comic-book paradigm. After two and a half years of not producing a follow-up to Zap #5, the Zap Collective finally got together to produce Zap #6. In the world of mainstream comics, any notion of skipping 30 months between issues would be absurd and doom the publication. But not for Zap. During its lengthy hiatus, the existing issues had sold out one reprint after another in a marketplace that now included over 200 underground titles. ARTIST INCLUDE: Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Rick Griffin, Spain Rodriguez,Victor Moscoso. 

ZAP COMIX #9 ! ! !  2nd Printing / September 1978 / 52 pages / The Print Mint. Zap Comix is justly lauded for changing the comic-book paradigm. Zap Comix #9 came out over three years after the previous issue, just in time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series debut in 1968. It was the last issue of Zap that the Print Mint would publish and the series would take a four-year break after this issue before finally putting out the tenth issue (so the Zap Collective produced only one book in a seven-year span; this will become the pattern for the remainder of the series). ARTIST INCLUDE: S. Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb,Robert Williams, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez, Victor Moscoso.

YOUNG LUST #1 1F - 9th press. - UNDERGROUND COMIC. Young Lust (1970) - #1. 9th pressing. Sexploitation Comic Group (Company & Sons). Artists: Bill Griffith - 'Griffy', Jay Kinney. 32 pages. Griffith went to San Francisco in 1970 to join the burgeoning underground comix movement. His first major comic book titles included Tales of Toad and Young Lust (co-created with cartoonist Jay Kinney), a bestselling series parodying romance comics of the time.

YOUNG LUST #2 - FIRST (1st) press ! ! ! - UNDERGROUND COMIC. Young Lust - #2. 1st pressing. Sexploitation Comic Group (PRINT MINT). Artists: Bill Griffith - 'Griffy', Jay Kinney. Griffith went to San Francisco in 1970 to join the burgeoning underground comix movement. His first major comic book titles included Tales of Toad and Young Lust (co-created with cartoonist Jay Kinney), a bestselling series parodying romance comics of the time.

YOUNG LUST #2 - SECOND (2nd) press ! ! ! - UNDERGROUND COMIC. Young Lust - #2. 2nd pressing. Sexploitation Comic Group (PRINT MINT). Artists: Bill Griffith - 'Griffy', Jay Kinney. Griffith went to San Francisco in 1970 to join the burgeoning underground comix movement. His first major comic book titles included Tales of Toad and Young Lust (co-created with cartoonist Jay Kinney), a bestselling series parodying romance comics of the time.

YOUNG LUST #3 - SECOND (2nd) press ! ! ! - UNDERGROUND COMIC. Young Lust - #2. 2nd pressing. Sexploitation Comic Group (PRINT MINT). Artists: Bill Griffith - 'Griffy', Jay Kinney. Griffith went to San Francisco in 1970 to join the burgeoning underground comix movement. His first major comic book titles included Tales of Toad and Young Lust (co-created with cartoonist Jay Kinney), a bestselling series parodying romance comics of the time.

YOUNG LUST #4 - FIRST (1st) press ! ! ! - UNDERGROUND COMIC. Young Lust - #4. 1st pressing. Sexploitation Comic Group (PRINT MINT). Artists: Bill Griffith - 'Griffy', Jay Kinney. Griffith went to San Francisco in 1970 to join the burgeoning underground comix movement. His first major comic book titles included Tales of Toad and Young Lust (co-created with cartoonist Jay Kinney), a bestselling series parodying romance comics of the time.

BIJOU #6 Underground Comic. 1st Printing , 2nd Run. / September, 1971 / 36 Pages / Kitchen Sink. Bijou Funnies was born in Chicago in the summer of 1968, just six months after Zap Comix #1, and evolved into one of the most important underground comic book series in history. The first issue featured Jay Lynch (also the editor) Skip Williamson, Jay Kinney, Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb, launching a comic anthology that by today's entertainment standards (or even the standards of 1968) appears relatively mild and hardly revolutionary. Yet it was. There are four printings of this comic book, all by Kitchen Sink and all with 50-cent cover prices. This is the 2nd pressing. COMIC CREATORS: Jay Lynch, Robert Crumb, Justin Green, Skip Williamson. 

RARE ! FIRST PRESSING. ROXY FUNNIES #1 - UNDERGROUND COMIC. Roxy Funnies #1 - Only Printing / 1972 / 36 pages / Head Imports. Jay Lynch provides an outstanding cover for a comic that honors his history, as it reprints an early (1969) Nard n' Pat story from Cavalier Magazine. Jay Kinney also pals up with Rory Hayes for some excellent panels in "Schizo," while Kim Deitch contributes a funny story called "Offing the Pig." The comic also features Art Spiegelman and Jim Siergey, but the main prize of this comic is still the brilliant cover art by Lynch. It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted. ARTISTS: Jay Lynch, Bhob Stewart, Art Spiegelman, Jay Kinney, Rory Hayes, Kim Deitch, Sam Cornell, Jim Siergy, Don Dohler, Lou Pearson, Cormo, Lyn Chevil, Joyce Farmer, Skip Williamson, Robert Crumb. 

It Aint Me Babe #1 - 2nd/3rd Printing / July, 1970 / 36 pages / Last Gasp Eco-Funnies. It Ain't Me Babe is a landmark in the history of comic books and was both inspired by and in answer to the underground comic book revolution spawned and sustained by male artists and writers. The comic served as a prototype for the launch of Wimmen's Comix in 1972, which published 17 issues over a 20-year period and inspired hundreds if not thousands of women to pursue a career in the male-dominated field of cartooning. In 1970, Trina Robbins joined the staff of a monthly feminist newspaper called It Ain't Me Babe as an unpaid volunteer. She contributed a fair amount of design and artwork for the paper, and was soon emboldened to produce and edit the first all-women-created comic book, It Aint Me Babe. The comic was published by Ron Turner and Last Gasp that summer and sold 20,000 copies, enough to warrant a second and third printing. ARTISTS: Trina Robbins, Meredith Kurtzman (Harvey Kurtzman's daughter!), Barbara "Willie" Mendes, Michele Brand, Lisa Lyons, "Hurricane" Nancy Kalish, Carole. 

Cloud Comics #2 - 1ST PRESSING ! 1971-1972 / Kitchen Sink - Head Imports. Cloud Comix (which changed to Cloud Comics for issue 2 for no discernible reason) had a few talented creators who contributed to the two comics (there were about 14 creators involved in the two books). The second issue of Cloud Comics is a measurable improvement over the first and includes Bill Skurski's lead story, "The Rape of Mother Earth". It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted. COMIC CREATORS: Bill Skurski, Leslie Cabarga, Norwood Farley, Peter Bramley, P.J. O'Rourke, Joe Kane, Ned Sonntag, Jay Kinney, Michael Sullivan, Peter Locke, Dianne Wade, Tom Hatchman (aka Mary Pickles), Gail Burwan - 30-35. 

Despair #1 - 1st Printing / 1969 / 28 pages / The Print Mint. Despair is Robert Crumb's first existential diatribe about the perils and shittiness of modern life in America. Most of the stories are deceptively clever and provide some classic Crumb, including "It's The Ruff Tuff Creampuff" and "Fuzzy The Bunny in The Same Old Crap." However, the lead story, "It's Really Too Bad," jettisons the cleverness and just mainlines Crumb's bitter perspective about American life. Despair is certainly one of Robert Crumb's most popular one-offs, evidenced by seven printings in about seven years. It's also got one of the most enduring, effective comic covers in history. "Why bother?" indeed. 

Greaser Comics #1 - 1st Printing / September, 1971 / 28 pages / Half Ass Press. GREASER is an east-coast underground that's irreverent, deviant, violent and politically incorrect. In the first issue, contributors George DiCaprio and R. Jaccoma give us fast cars driven by young punks with greasy hair, cuffed jeans and white t-shirts. The second issue features DiCaprio and Jim Janes (who worked off and on in more-or-less mainstream comics for many years) delivering a rough-and-tumble comic about '50s greasers. COMIC CREATORS: George DiCaprio, J. Jaccoma, K. Bloomer, John Down. 

Greaser Comics #1 - 1st Printing / September, 1971 / 28 pages / Half Ass Press. GREASER is an east-coast underground that's irreverent, deviant, violent and politically incorrect. In the first issue, contributors George DiCaprio and R. Jaccoma give us fast cars driven by young punks with greasy hair, cuffed jeans and white t-shirts. The second issue features DiCaprio and Jim Janes (who worked off and on in more-or-less mainstream comics for many years) delivering a rough-and-tumble comic about '50s greasers. COMIC CREATORS: George DiCaprio, J. Jaccoma, K. Bloomer, John Down. 

Junk Comix #1 - FIRST PRESSING - Only Printing / 1971 / 28 pages / Do City Productions. Apparently nobody knows who created Junk Comix, but it is also apparent that the creator was an ex-junkie who wanted to warn others about heroin addiction while driving home a few other points about society's view on the drug. The comic was published by Do City Productions, which never published anything else, which leads one to believe the book was self-published by the author. It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted. COMIC CREATORS: UNKNOWN ! 

Junk Comix #1 - FIRST PRESSING - Only Printing / 1971 / 28 pages / Do City Productions. Apparently nobody knows who created Junk Comix, but it is also apparent that the creator was an ex-junkie who wanted to warn others about heroin addiction while driving home a few other points about society's view on the drug. The comic was published by Do City Productions, which never published anything else, which leads one to believe the book was self-published by the author. It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted. COMIC CREATORS: UNKNOWN ! 

Laugh in the Dark #1 ! ! ! - 1st Printing / August, 1971 / 44 pages / Last Gasp Eco-Funnies. This 44-page underground was originally supposed to be Bogeyman #4, but Last Gasp or somebody figured it would be better under a different title. Regardless, this is a terrific and gruesome but often funny underground-style horror comic featuring Rory Hayes (of course), Kim Deitch, Spain, Bill Griffith, S. Clay Wilson and Justin Green, among others. One of Green's contributions is one of his best Binky Brown stories. The four-page "The Agony of Binky Brown" is like a condensed origin story for Green's signature character. It's a practical yet powerful tale, relating the odd influences of Binky's youth and his inability to rationalize them out of his fervent (and clinically neurotic) mind. The key contributors also collaborate on "Bimbo's Private Fun-House," which stands as one of the better jams in underground history. 

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