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Comic. Condizione: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This is a trade sized comic book with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The comic is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The comic spine ends and corners have some wear, bumping, rubbing and creasing. There is a small tear to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are generally clean and bright, but there is noticeable light , generalized toning. "After Zap Comix #4 got busted for obscenity and caused all manner of trouble for people who published or sold the book, it's no surprise that the follow-up issue pulls back the reins a little, at least when it comes to portraying incest or underage sex. But despite tapping the brakes, the creators still keep driving their agenda about unlimited freedom of expression on all fronts, from sex and violence to politics and religion. Well, at least most of the contributors do. The most jarring change of course by any member of the Zap Collective in this issue is taken by Robert Crumb, who was chiefly responsible for the obscenity bust with Zap #4. Evidently shaking in his boots after that debacle, Crumb contributes the two most benign and innocuous stories in Zap Comix #5. Indeed, "Mr. Natural" and "The Adventures of Fuzzy the Bunny" are virtually inoffensive, featuring no nudity, eroticism or explicit violence, with barely so much as a curse word in their 18 collective pages." (from Underground ComixJoint).

Comic. Condizione: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This comic is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. Second printing (with the staple placement other than 2 5/16" from the top prong of the staple to the top edge of the comic). There is a lightish angular crease to the front cover of the comic, along with some beginning bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are generally clean and bright, but do have some beginning generalized toning. "The book opens with Victor Moscoso's "Hocus Pocus," which is six pages of stylized animals, sex organs, humans and iconic cartoon characters engaging in a wild orgy in the middle of an M. C. Escher-like room with two floors, no ceilings and two doors. New characters enter or leave the room on every page and the whirlwind of an orgy becomes a gleaming mass of French-curve bodies and appendages. For someone who never dabbled in erotica before Zap, Moscoso quickly adapts to the genre. The next story by Robert Crumb became the most notorious comic strip in the history of Zap Comix and led to the book being virtually banned from retail sale throughout America for almost a year. "Joe Blow" depicts an apparently middle-class family of four engaging in father-daughter and mother-son sexual relations. The fact that the children in the story were post-pubescent only made "Joe Blow" slightly less egregious. A limited number of "adult intellectuals" with open minds recognized that the story delivered a satire of a middle-American family taking Dr. Spock's liberal child-raising advice a few steps too far. But for everyone else, "Joe Blow" was the most shocking and revolting comic strip they had ever read." (from Underground ComixJoint).

Comic. Condizione: Very Good+. Illustrated by Robet Crumb, Et Al (illustratore). 2nd Printing. B&W Illustrations; Possible 2nd or 3rd printing (according to Underground Comixjoint - the 2nd & 3rd printings are indistinguishable). This is a small format comic book (approx 5" x7"). The book is in very Good plus condition, There is some very beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the comic covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. " Snatch Comics #3 expands its roster of contributors again, adding Robert Williams and Jim Osborne to the mix, as well as expanding the number of pages given to Victor Moscoso. Rory Hayes had devoted much of his spring and summer to drawing for Cunt Comics, so he only gets two pages here. This issue came out in August 1969, the same month as the greatest underground of all time, Zap Comix #4, so it's easy to imagine that Williams, Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson and Robert Crumb were more focused on Zap than Snatch that summer." (from UndergroundComixjoint) .

Comic. Condizione: Very Good+. Illustrated by Robert Crumb (illustratore). 2nd Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format comic book (approx. 5" x 7") . The comic is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is a 2nd or 3rd printing (considered indistinguishable from each other by the Underground Comix Collection). The comic is in clean, bright condition with very little wear. "The United States underground comics scene emerged in the 1960s, focusing on subjects dear to the counterculture: recreational drug use, politics, rock music, and free love. The underground comix scene had its strongest success in the United States between 1968 and 1975, with titles initially distributed primarily though head shops. Underground comix often featured covers intended to appeal to the drug culture, and imitated LSD-inspired posters to increase sales. These titles were termed "comix" in order to differentiate them from mainstream publications. The "X" also emphasized the X-rated contents of the publications. Many of the common aspects of the underground comix scene were in response to the strong restrictions forced upon mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, which refused publications featuring depictions of violence, sexuality, drug use, and socially relevant content, all of which appeared in greater levels in underground comix. Robert Crumb stated that the appeal of underground comix was their lack of censorship: " (from Wikipedia).

Comic. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated by Robert Crumb, Et Al (illustratore). 2nd Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized comic book. This copy has a .50cent price tag, which means it's either a 1st or 2nd printing. Most likely it's a 2nd printing. The comic is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is a flip book. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and creasing. There are spots of ground-in dirt, or foxing to the white portions of the covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there is generalized light toning. Illustrators include: RIck Griffin, Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay WIlson, Gilbert Shelton and more.