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Obscure Bronze age comics! ROCK COMICS #1 from 1978
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Qalyar

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Great piece, there. Rock Comics was distributed almost exclusively in the NYC area, and -- as this copy demonstrates -- was almost always folded in half to fit on newsstand shelves. In all, estimates are that it sold about 10,000 copies. Obviously, preservation rates for oversized newsprint aren't as good as for traditional comics, but it's not exactly rare.

This was the only issue of Rock Comics, although Ken Landgraf's Langraphics would go on to publish five issues of Starfighters, which is pretty much the same sort of thing, only sci-fi.

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BabyAteMyDingo

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On 10/19/2021 at 7:40 AM, namisgr said:

It is funny.  The comic artists beginning their careers at the dawn of punk had very different takes on it:

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Frankly, I prefer the parody much more than when they are trying to be serious. The serious stuff was almost propaganda. None of them really were fans or had any real idea the underlying message. I mean, punk was pretty much about disenfranchisement for the most part and alienation. Not "Kill yer mudder". That was left for heavy and doom metal.

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