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[EggsAckley]

Here's a book you don't see every day.

 

 

 

[EggsAckley]

and this one

 

[chainnball]

and this one

 

 

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Nice ones.

What label and grade did that Zap #1 (1st print) double signed get, Eggs?

 

[rjpb]

Here's a book you don't see every day.

 

 

 

 

Or ever before.

[comixcroz]

A friend found this for me at a vinyl shop. Larry Welz did a Cherry Poptart cover for a 45 by the MonoMen. Sweet!

 

Pssst.. There's one on ebay right now with a cheap BIN.

 

 

2 versions?? now I want the blue one!!

 

[EggsAckley]

Nice ones.

What label and grade did that Zap #1 (1st print) double signed get, Eggs?

 

CGC 4.5 universal CR/OW

[CheezyWhiz]

2 versions?? now I want the blue one!!

 

..and now I want the black one!

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Just to show how much is still to be sorted out or discovered about Underground Comix, I thought I would post this item. Snatch is one of the big series in Undergrounds, but the print run it isn't really known. JK guide wasn't really clear and the UGComix.info site has errors also on this one.

 

Here's 2 copies of Snatch #2. Neither fall into any printing posted on UGComix.info.

Both have the juices page on page 15 (JK 3rd? print) but no color. These are both clearly different printings. They are both early printings as they are just blue/orange cover and are hand assembled. But the glossy cover one (paper is glossy, but thinner and faded/turning cream) is I believe the JK 3rd?/UGComix.info 3rd without juice color so they probably had both color and non-juice color variants. The other is a matte thicker cover stock (bright white that doesn't seem to be yellowing like the inside pages), but has only blue/orange cover inks (ignore the black marker scratched out cover price), this is probably a previously undocumented printing between the 3rd and Print Mint 4th printing.

 

matte (orange is actually lighter than showing, but a little darker than the other one)

 

 

glossy (orange is lighter than scanner is showing)

 

[Blind Owl]

 

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Here's a couple interesting links I recently came across on Undergrounds.

http://blastotoys.com/going-underground-37.html

 

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/kenkaffkegoldengate/_wsn/page5.html

 

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

1962

[CheezyWhiz]

Here's a couple interesting links I recently came across on Undergrounds.

http://blastotoys.com/going-underground-37.html

 

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/kenkaffkegoldengate/_wsn/page5.html

 

That was a good read. Thanks for the links. :thumbsup:

[rjpb]

1962

 

Very nice! I needs a #2.

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

First time I've ever seen a picture of #2, seems to show up much less often and and I couldn't even find a picture of #2 anywhere until this one showed up. Nobody could verify what Wonder Wart-Hog story was in it until I verified it with the seller.

 

This just might be (more like probably or at least now known) the first non-self published (ProJunior) appearance of an Underground Comix Character. The oldest Underground related item I've been able to find reference to is Frank Stacks first issue work that appears in a issue of Texas Ranger in 1956. (I'm working on something else that might be older, but haven't got a copy yet so I'm holding off on releasing what that it until I do).

 

 

 

 

 

[shaper-migration]

I know of at least two other album covers with art by Larry Welz.

 

 

 

 

The original art for them is out there as well.

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

In case you don't know, the first appearance of Wonder Wart-Hog in the March 1962 issue of Bacchanal is on the left with the color first splash page, the story was reprinted in Charlatan #1 (1963) but with a B&W different first splash page on the right. The rest of the art/story is the same for each, save for slightly larger size of the Bacchanal and that the printing quality/shade is better on the Charlatan.

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[CheezyWhiz]

I know of at least two other album covers with art by Larry Welz.

 

 

 

 

The original art for them is out there as well.

 

I want! Thanks for the heads up!

[CheezyWhiz]

Cherry Poptart Facebook fan club.. Welz is a member.

 

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33336441574

 

Some REALLY great storyboard art in the photos section.

Edited October 19, 2009 by CheezyWhiz

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Here's something that arrived recently. Cover is correct on the outside, but printed upside down on the inside.