Near Myths
Only Printing / 1978 / 44 pages / Galaxy Media Distribution
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On the table of contents of its first issue, Near Myths declares itself to be "A Science Fiction and Fantasy Comic for Adults." This is similar to the declaration from Brainst
Honkytonk Sue
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1979-1980 / Bob Boze Bell
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Bob Boze Bell is the Executive Editor of True West, a national magazine with over 100,000 subscribers, and has produced several groundbreaking illustrated books on the Old West (American frontier history
Hot Stuf' #1
1st (only) edition
Summer 1974
Sal Quartuccio
60 pages
Stories: 4 - The She-Devils in Hot Shot 1
5 - Bug
10 - Shadow of the Sword
18 - The Proposition
19 - Hot Shot
20 - The Apple
21 - Uncle Sal and Cousin John Go Planet-Tripping
32 -
Forbidden Knowledge
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1975-1978 / Last Gasp
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Only George DiCaprio would host such a macabre feast as Forbidden Knowledge. Filled with stories of cannibalism, incest, castration and exhumed corpses, the two-issue series wallows joyfully in its depravity
Fantagor #1 by Richard Corbin
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1st Printing / 1970 / 32 pages / Richard Corben
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Richard Corben self-published Fantagor #1 in 1970, two years after his first published work appeared in the fanzine Voice of Comicdom. The 1st printing of
Skull Comics
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1970-1972 / Rip Off Comix - Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
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Of all the pop culture reference points that influenced underground comic creators and publishers, none were greater than EC Comics, which flourished during the childhoods of the forefa
WARNING
This comic is a typical 1970s-1980s Underground Comix. The stories and illustrating are excellent Horror in this case, but in typical Underground fashion is mixed with over the top doses of drugs, free love and Nudity. Those of you that ca
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1972-1975 / California Comics
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Bob Sidebottom operated one of the first comic book shops in the country in San Jose, California, in the midst of head shops and panhandlers on San Fernando Street near the state college. He also ow
Captain Confederacy
Captain Confederacy is an alternate history comic book by Will Shetterly and Vince Stone that was published between 1986 and 1992. It tells the story of a superhero created for propaganda purposes in a world in which the Confeder
Captain Guts by Larry Welz
1969-1971 / The Print Mint
R - Nudity, Adult Situations
This is Larry Welz's first one-man comic book (at the age of 21), and it is a marvelously entertaining serial. The three issues feature Fillmore Grinchbottom, who is l
Bogeyman
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1968-1970 / San Francisco Comic Book / Company & Sons
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Bogeyman is an early underground series spawned from the unique mind of Rory Hayes, enabled by the founder of San Francisco Comic Book Company (and passionate fan of EC Comics), Gary Ar
Commies From Mars
COFM (Last Gasp, 1979-1987)Under
1979 Tim Boxell and respective contributing artists
You didn’t think they called it “the red planet” because of the color of its soil, did you?
Begun in the late 1970s and published sporadical
The Cartoon History of the Universe
The Cartoon History of the Universe : From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great Cartoon History of the Universe Vol. 1
Gonick's authorial voice is represented by the Professor, pictured on the cover of The Cartoon H
Zippy the Pinhead
Zippy the Pinhead is the protagonist of Zippy, an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith. The character of Zippy the Pinhead initially appeared in underground publications during the 1970s. Zippy the Pinhead The Zippy co
Mickey Rat Comix
Mickey Rat started out not as a character, but merely an image. He was just a picture by cartoonist Robert Armstrong (who also played a major part in popularizing the term "couch potato"), and his purpose in existing was to sell T-s
Elric of Melniboné or Elric by Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock, and the antihero of a series of sword and sorcery stories centring in an alternate Earth. The proper name and title of the cha
White Comanche (1978 - 1980)
Publisher: Last Gasp
Published: January 1978
All 3 in Series
White Comanche (1978) written and illustrated by Jaxon, is the first issue in a three issue mini series. See also the second comic in the series, Red Raider, a
Star Reach by Mike Friedrich
Star Reach (also spelled Star*Reach) was an influential, American science fiction and fantasy comics anthology published from 1974 to 1979 by Mike Friedrich. It is unrelated to the early MS-DOS computer game of the same
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Das Kampf (German for "the struggle" or "the fight") was originally self-published by Vaughn Bodé in
Read more…Junkwaffel by Vaughn Bode (1969–1972)
Beginning in the 1968 and continuing until his untimely death, Bodē entered a prolific period of creativity, introducing a number of strips and ongoing series, most of which ran in underground newspapers or er
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