Show off your Uber High Grade UNDERGROUND COMIX !!!

[rjpb]

I just picked up some HELP! Magazines from the 1962 and one has a Wonder War-Hog story.

 

How long has WWH been around?

1962.

 

From Shelton's Wiki page:

 

"Directly after graduation, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines, where he would sneak his drawings into print. The idea for the character of Wonder Wart-Hog, a porcine parody of Superman, came to him in 1961. The following year, Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get a student deferment from the draft. The first two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine, in the spring of 1962. He then became editor of The Texas Ranger and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories."

 

Here's many of the appearances. I've recently discovered a couple of reprints that weren't listed anywhere (one issue even had a WW-H parody I hadn't heard of called Wonder Wart-Piglet). I also received yesterday his reprinted appearance in the Florida Orange Peel college magazine.

I prize my copies of both issues of Bacchanal, try finding a copy out there for sale.

http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/wart-hog/

 

Great website - now I'll have to dig out my collection to see what I don't have. It's especially handy for figuring out what story was first published where.

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

There are enough stories to compile an omnibus of Wonder Wart-Hog. Shelton, are you listening?

[rjpb]

There are enough stories to compile an omnibus of Wonder Wart-Hog. Shelton, are you listening?

 

That would be very cool! I'd like to see it with a lengthy introduction/appreciation that really puts the character in perspective with the eras he appeared in. WWH's origins as college humor mag parody/social commentary, and then shifting to a hotrod magazine feature before becoming an Underground comics icon obscure his importance as one of the most original superheroes of the "Silver Age". If he had had a twenty-five year run in a self-titled book like Cerebus, the character would be far more widely collected than he is.

[dicjones]

One of my favorite books in my entire collection. Thank you very much Eggs!

 

 

DSC_0001 by dicjones, on Flickr]Cherry Poptart #2[/url]

 

 

 

Sick copy!

 

Thank you sir!

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

This one arrived today. I'd say a 8.0-8.5.

[Dark Prime 0]

don't have to meny undergrounds......and two i'm not sure are considered underground or not

 

Cherry Poptart 1 9.2

not sure if this counts but i did buy it raw

another i'm not sure as it's newer, but wasn't sold though the preview so from what i understand was not the easiest to get

[EggsAckley]

Nice pick-up!

 

This one arrived today. I'd say a 8.0-8.5.

[MK Ultra]

Love the Corben art.