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On 6/11/2022 at 5:03 PM, Morganmi said:

Came across these while cleaning my friends dad's basement. He said take em so pretty stoked as I've never read Zap 5 and The Last Supplement which looks wicked neat after just browsing through. 

The Zap 5 has a story called The Adventures of Fuzzy The Bunny. It’s an adaptation of something Charles Crumb worked on when they were kids. The CGC label for the book even includes Charles as a contributor. Nice pickups.

So it seems Funny Aminals is the book to have right now. I have seen high grade copies listed for thousands. Makes me wonder if I really need 3 copies. 

I struggle with how I should display my collection. I have a spinner rack which is great for displaying raw books. The same company that built my rack sells one designed for slabs. I would buy one but I have no room for it. I believe the company is called “spinner rack”. Hope this helps.

35 on the census

On 8/30/2021 at 10:44 AM, oldmilwaukee6er said:

They've been hit / miss on underground comix printings since the beginning, not to mention the whole 'the absence of a printing notation equals first printing' convention on the label

I cracked a Zap 2 that I assumed was a first print because of the absence of a printing notation on the label. It wasn’t. 

On 8/22/2021 at 7:03 AM, namisgr said:

Here at last, Freak Brothers #1 copy B, 3rd printing, NM- (NM+, but for a light horizontal bend along the bottom third of front cover)

Looks good. I’ll take it

Take feds n heads copy b

I’ll take the skull 3

I was shocked nobody took that. One of the best books in the thread.

On 8/21/2021 at 4:54 PM, namisgr said:

• Freak Brothers #1 copy B
• 3rd printing, 1971 - yellow-gray fire escape, back cover flag blue, purple price, white tire and road
• NM-
• $60

Apparently, I'm short the scan on this one.  Will post it tomorrow morning.  You may post a 'take it' pending front cover scan, if you'd like.

Take

On 8/21/2021 at 9:47 AM, namisgr said:

• Color
• 1st printing, 1971; small format comic
• all Victor Moscoso, all a mind trip
• VF  The very top right front cover corner is not wear or a color flake, but was printed that way; 
• $35

take

On 8/21/2021 at 6:33 AM, namisgr said:

Wrapping up the books with Corben art.

• Up From the Deep
• 1st printing, 1971; half of interior in color
• Corben, Jaxon, Irons, Deitch
• NM-
• $45

Take 

On 8/21/2021 at 5:35 AM, namisgr said:

• Slow Death #2
• 1st printing, 1970
• Corben, Jaxon, Sheridan
• F/VF
• $20

On 8/20/2021 at 11:38 AM, namisgr said:

• Man From Utopia
• Oversized large magazine size, 1972
• All Rick Griffin gorgeous art
• VF/NM
• $140, includes cost for separate shipping in its own package - US customers only, please

Classic Griffin themes centered on human creation, variance and chance, and religion.  Just a bit of very minor color flaking along the spine is responsible for the downgrade from NM or better.  The ridges visible on the back cover are not wear, but the textured thick cover stock.  Too big for the scanner, the images are photos taken outside in natural sunlight.

 

Take

On 8/10/2021 at 11:35 AM, TIA23 said:

@CDNComix 

Thx! I m looking forward to see  #5 and the first print from #4 !

Surprised that #3 does not excist 

I will look were i can buy those "Kennedy" and "Illustrated Checklist" guides

I m even more excited to see #5 and first print #4 now 

Mycomicshop keeps the Kennedy guide in stock. I checked and they have the illustrated checklist as well. The Kennedy is just a must have item. It’s unbelievably useful.

On 7/19/2021 at 4:34 PM, namisgr said:

I've been a Marvel and DC guy for five decades now, but starting in the '70s did pick up some undergrounds that were thoroughly enjoyable and different reads.  While I don't have anything truly exotic and rare, there are a few uncommon books among my collection of about 150.  I've finally gotten around to scanning them, in preparation for selling after having already purged nearly all of the comics from the major publishers.

Griffin and Moscoso  

Have you decided where you’re going to sell them? 

I can’t maintain interest in mainstream (Marvel) books. I finally started shipping them to MCS with the intent of putting all funds raised towards comix and/or original art. I know a number of you collect other genres but is there anyone else here that only collects Underground comix and/or original art?

8 hours ago, wpbooks01 said:

I always like to inspire people to liberate the comics and comix from the darkness of the long and short box, and bring them into the light! Johnny Bindingseed, I am!

Plus they look so much more visually appealing on a bookshelf vs boxes. The only books I own that I don’t read are CGC slabs. You have inspired me to crack out more books and actually read them. 

8 hours ago, L Ludwig said:

Is there more you can share on this? I have seen a lot of creative placement of post-it notes there to dissuade prurient interests, I guess. But I am concerned that a good source of undergrounds might be negatively effected by what they started out addressing, ironically.

eBay has decided to ban all sexually explicit material starting in two weeks. They stated that most “adult only” items will not be allowed. I find this disturbing because of the amount of UG books that say adults only or some variation on the cover. There’s more info in a thread in comics general. 
 

On 3/17/2021 at 1:35 PM, wpbooks01 said:

Still looking for the DOPE T-shirt, but it aFrppears I've managed to track down the rest of the SDCC 2019 Freak Brothers swag, unless someone here knows about more???

That’s awesome. Did you get most of them at the con?

I had the pleasure of interacting with and purchasing from Howard Greber in his last couple weeks. I knew nothing of Underground comics at the time but I was drawn towards the books he posted. I claimed quite a few of them including high grade Air Pirates #1 and his original owner copy of Mr Natural 2. All of them were at great prices and he brought the prices down further as a package deal. I inquired if there were any UG books  featuring cats. His response was to give me free of charge all of the Fat Freddys cat books. This was the most generous and thoughtful thing anyone in the comics world has ever done for me. I would never sell any of the books I bought from him especially the fat freddys cat books.  I even haver them listed in my notes as "Greber copies".