Underground Comix rarities at Heritage Auction this week

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There are four underground collectibles being offered this week at Heritage’s Sunday Internet Auction. Bidding end on Sunday at 10 p.mn.

 

Probably the rarest of the legendary Chicago Seeds are the issues which contained Underground Comix that are from the First and Second Volumes. The issues are all collected from that period in one lot:

 

Chicago Seed Underground Newspaper Group (1960s). V1#8,9,10,11,-12, V2 #1, 3, 5, and 12.

 

Stash of unfolded copies of the Windy City's most notorious Underground newspaper, the Chicago Seed. Issues include: V1#8-12, V2 #1, 3, 5, and 12. In addition to articles about rock music, poetry, radicals getting high (and getting busted), there's comix and art by Jay Lynch, Skip Williamson, R. Cobb, and others, with lots of colorful collage art centerfolds. These things are getting harder and harder to find! Condition ranges from GD-FN, most in FN.

 

 

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=121412&lotIdNo=13006

 

There is a scarce and unusual Robert Crumb collectible lot

 

Robert Crumb Greeting Card Group (American Greetings, 1973

 

 

Years after leaving his steady job at American Greetings Corporation in Cleveland, Robert Crumb was persuaded to return to create designs for a new line called "Zonk!", some featuring his Underground Comix characters like Mr. Natural. This group of three Zonk! Cards includes a 7" x 8" folded card, "Do You Really Love Me?" with an original envelope, plus two copies of a smaller Mr. Natural design, "My Advice To You Is Plain and To the Point!" along with envelopes that have become sealed over time. Also included is a 1.25" Mr. Natural pinback button.

 

 

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=121412&lotIdNo=13004

 

 

The huge lot of mini-comic is an opportunity for someone to fill that usual gap in their collection:

 

Underground Comix "Off the Cuff" Mini-Comics Group

 

Bumper crop of ultra-rare Underground mini-comix, known at the time as "off the cuff" publications. Although there are a number of different sizes here, most are eight pages, printed on both sides of 8.5" x 11" paper, folded, stapled, and trimmed to a 4.25" x 5.5" size. Most were self-published by each individual artist. Included in this group are some of the best-known off-the-cuff minis, including Zap 7 (cover by Robert Crumb); Zip-a-Tunes and Moire Melodies (Art Spiegelman); Murder (S. Clay Wilson); plus Awake!; Baloney #1; Corruption; The Compleat (sic) Mister Infinity (Art Spiegelman); Country Hits Jamboree; Everything You Wanted To Know About Yoga; EZ Picture Stories From the Bible; "Jud" Green's Underground Cartooning Course; Light; Lullabye For a Speedfreak; Mini-Lust Comics; A Plain Talk With Puerto Ricans; The Perverted Primer; Sally Starr Hollywood Gal Sleuth; Sin City U.S.A.; Toy Dandruff; and Young and Lustless. Artists include Trina Robbins, Larry Rippee, Joe Schenkman, Bill Griffith, Leslie Cabarga, Jay Kinney, and others.

 

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=121412&lotIdNo=13002

 

 

And also available is a Dan O’neill lot that includes the amazing Air Pirates :

 

Air Pirates and Related Underground Comix Group

This is one of the most important Underground comics ever published as it helped to set many of the parody laws that are still on the books. By spoofing Disney characters in ways that Uncle Walt never imagined, the Air Pirates became famous, or should we say infamous. It also got them sued by an army of lawyers, and the title folded after two issues.

 

A set of some of the most controversial comics of all time. The "Air Pirates", Dan O'Neill, Bobby London, Gary Halgren, and Shary Flenniken, were sued by Disney for portraying their most beloved characters in the most human ways. After years of fighting, the pirates won and many of the parody laws we have today were established. The two issues of this groundbreaking title are in Fb or better condition and are items that no Underground collection should be without!

 

Air Pirates and Related Underground Comix Group (Various Publishers, 1970s). Includes: Air Pirates #1 and 2; Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories V1#1, 2, 3, V2#1, 2; and Tortoise and the Hare (storage damage, VG-). The O'Neill Vol. 1 issues are VG, the other comics are VG/FN

 

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=121412&lotIdNo=13001

 

 

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