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Seems it might be a good time to get into Undergrounds if you've got money. There seems to be an abnormally large amount of sellers lately on eBay with rare, hard to find comix listed. Anyone else notice this?

 

 

hm I was asking after high grade Freak Brothers 12-13 when I heard from O40Artist that he tasked with bringing some 4k books to market for Howard's / EggsAckley estate. No small task that. No sir.

 

Definitely seems a buyer's market out there to me. I have been holding onto mine, stubborn to sell.

I am still sentimental for many of them.

 

In many cases, GPAnalysis data is slim and fluctuates wildly.

 

My best recent pick was this for less than F UGG15 FN 6.0

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One source that is drying up for me is WIzard World Chicago. 2016 was the toughest year by far and I have pulled some great undergrounds out of that show. So I am hopeful for C2E2 in Spring 2017.

 

With comic books it appears we live in an era where ANYthing can be had for the right price.

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Hi everyone,

I picked up a small batch of Print Mint comics yesterday and am loving them. I have spent part of the morning trying to find a good online resource listing everything published during the Underground Comix era. I'd like to learn more, but don't know where to start. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

This website >> http://comixjoint.com/underground.html (click on letters at top)

And this one >>> http://www.ugcomix.info/guide/

 

THIS book >> https://www.amazon.com/History-Underground-Comics-Estren/dp/091417164X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1472172750&sr=8-4&keywords=history+of+underground+comix

 

:hi:

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I also understand that there was quite a bit of stuff published in the UK and a small batch of comix were published here in Canada.

 

This is tougher. The 2010 supplement to the 2006 Fogel's Underground Comix Guide provided about the best listings of British / UK material. I do not know about Canada beyond Vancouver area (e.g. Rand Holmes, Fog City Comix, or the feminist Pig Roast)

 

Here is the book, tho I think you should hold out for a better price on eBay or something

https://www.amazon.com/Fogels-Underground-Comix-Price-Supplement/dp/0977948250/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472172798&sr=1-1&keywords=fogel%27s+underground+supplement

 

ALSO... the book Comix: The Underground Revolution has a decidedly UK flair: https://www.amazon.com/Comix-Underground-Revolution-Dez-Skinn/dp/1560255722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472173197&sr=8-1&keywords=underground+comix

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi everyone,

I picked up a small batch of Print Mint comics yesterday and am loving them. I have spent part of the morning trying to find a good online resource listing everything published during the Underground Comix era. I'd like to learn more, but don't know where to start. I also understand that there was quite a bit of stuff published in the UK and a small batch of comix were published here in Canada. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Start with San Francisco and head East my friend!

 

+1 lol

 

San Francisco then Milwaukee THEN all points east (skip Chicago, as Milwaukee has published everything of note since 1970)

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Hi everyone,

I picked up a small batch of Print Mint comics yesterday and am loving them. I have spent part of the morning trying to find a good online resource listing everything published during the Underground Comix era. I'd like to learn more, but don't know where to start. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

This website >> http://comixjoint.com/underground.html (click on letters at top)

And this one >>> http://www.ugcomix.info/guide/

 

THIS book >> https://www.amazon.com/History-Underground-Comics-Estren/dp/091417164X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1472172750&sr=8-4&keywords=history+of+underground+comix

 

:hi:

alice%20rabbit%20hole_zps5fh1mgnk.jpg

 

 

 

I also understand that there was quite a bit of stuff published in the UK and a small batch of comix were published here in Canada.

 

This is tougher. The 2010 supplement to the 2006 Fogel's Underground Comix Guide provided about the best listings of British / UK material. I do not know about Canada beyond Vancouver area (e.g. Rand Holmes, Fog City Comix, or the feminist Pig Roast)

 

Here is the book, tho I think you should hold out for a better price on eBay or something

https://www.amazon.com/Fogels-Underground-Comix-Price-Supplement/dp/0977948250/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472172798&sr=1-1&keywords=fogel%27s+underground+supplement

 

ALSO... the book Comix: The Underground Revolution has a decidedly UK flair: https://www.amazon.com/Comix-Underground-Revolution-Dez-Skinn/dp/1560255722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472173197&sr=8-1&keywords=underground+comix

 

 

 

 

 

FB page for British UG:

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/248876381791298/

 

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If you're interested in learning more about Spanish underground comix, Tebeosfera is an invaluable resource:

 

http://www.tebeosfera.com/portada.php

 

There's also the book, El Cómic Underground Espñol, 1970-1980, by Pablo Dopico, though it's now out of print and rather expensive on the secondary market, though affordable copies do turn up from time to time.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Espanol-1970-1980-Spanish-Cuadernos/dp/8437622190

 

 

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As for British underground comix, that's my specialty. I've been working on my own reference guide to that particular genre (shameless plug), but until that's ready, there's the aforementioned Comix: The Underground Revolution by Dez Skinn, but also Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll & Violence in the British Underground by David Huxley, which can be found for cheap on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Nasty-Tales-Violence-Underground-Primal-Spinal/dp/190048613X.

 

In addition to a lively history of comix in Britain, Huxley provides a list of publications, cobbled together from by Mal Burns' Comix Index: The Directory of Alternative British Graphic Magazines: 1966-1977 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/162172346588) and the Fast Fiction Info Sheets, many of which can be seen, in their entirety, on artist Ed Pinsent's website, which is another invaluable resource: http://comics.edpinsent.com/.

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If Australian underground comix are your thing, two wonderful resources are:

 

Down Underground Comix by Phil Pinder

 

https://www.amazon.com/Down-underground-comix-Phil-Pinder/dp/0140062467

 

The Wild and Woolley Comix Book by Pat Woolley

 

https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Woolley-Comix-Book/dp/0909331421

 

The Tabula Rasa website is also interesting, but doesn't really touch upon much from the '70s.

 

http://www.tabula-rasa.info/AusComics/

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There were lots of underground comix goodies published in Italy, too, and a book that covers much of it and is still in print, though in Italian. It's Nuvole Sotterranee: Il Fumetto Underground Italiano Degli Anni Settanta.

 

https://tictail.com/s/justindiecomics/nuvole-sotterranee-a-cura-di-michele-mordente-e-gianmaria-rizzardi

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Thanks for all of these suggestions and resources everyone! I'll definitely be focusing more on English-language stuff for the time being, but it's great to know that this type of stuff was being published in non-English speaking countries too.

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It's a case of when two hobbies/collections intersect.

 

I was going through some boxes that contained old books that I had picked-up over the years. One of which is called the "Book of Acid", written by Adam Gottlieb in 1975.

 

It's basically an underground pamphlet on how to clandestinely produce LSD, using cultures of fungi as your starting material. I had picked it up at least 20 years ago and really have not looked at it since.

 

Besides a drawing on the front cover, there are a few pictures within of various lab set-ups. I just noticed today that the illustrator was Larry Todd and published by Kistone of Marijuana Multiplier fame.

 

I until today I had never known that Todd had produced a small series (over 7 different pamphlets) of this type of pub. with Gottlieb, let alone that I had bought one over 20 years ago.

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Those two hobbies being collecting undergrounds and dropping acid?

No comment!

 

But, I have a question about a third collecting area that I was thinking of exploring, but do not know too much about - earlier adult/porno comics (pre Eros and 90s).

 

I am aware of things/titles like:

 

1) Tijuana bilbles

2) San Francisco Ball

3) Bizarre Comix (Belier)

4) Gasm magazine

5) Rump magazine

6) Randy Crawford's Nice Day Publications

7) Peanus (Classex Publications)

8) Gwendolyn booklets

9) Sweeter Gwen

10) M'Gurk's Sex Primer

11) adult books from R.E. Inc

12) Penthouse Comix

13) Hustler Comix

 

Could someone suggest other titles/publishers in this vein that I should keep an eye open for? Or suggest a website or book that has an overview of what's out there?

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3) Bizarre Comix (Belier)

 

6) Randy Crawford's Nice Day Publications

 

10) M'Gurk's Sex Primer

11) adult books from R.E. Inc

 

 

Don't thin k I'm familiar with any of these, do you have examples?

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It's a case of when two hobbies/collections intersect.

 

I was going through some boxes that contained old books that I had picked-up over the years. One of which is called the "Book of Acid", written by Adam Gottlieb in 1975.

 

It's basically an underground pamphlet on how to clandestinely produce LSD, using cultures of fungi as your starting material. I had picked it up at least 20 years ago and really have not looked at it since.

 

Besides a drawing on the front cover, there are a few pictures within of various lab set-ups. I just noticed today that the illustrator was Larry Todd and published by Kistone of Marijuana Multiplier fame.

 

I until today I had never known that Todd had produced a small series (over 7 different pamphlets) of this type of pub. with Gottlieb, let alone that I had bought one over 20 years ago.

 

I've got something similar, but it's marijuana related, as opposed to acid. It's entitled The Marijuana Consumer's and Dealer's Guide, yellow illustrated cover, but no real art inside. Also have a few issues of Marijuana Monthly. I would occasionally pick these things up when buying undergrounds, but I was never really trying to collect them.

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Hello ripb,

 

I really do not know how to post images on this forum. I also do not own a scanner and would have to use the one at work - a bit of a pain for me.

 

I will instead provide links to examples that are currently available on-line:

 

3) Bizarre Comix (1970s-1980s) is essentially a 24 volume, reprint anthology of bondage comics from the 50s-60s. Mainly highlighting the work of Nutrix comics and Eric Stanton. A little weird and tame by today's standards, but definitely had an influence on S. Clay Wilson - Domatrix pirates etc. I believe the first 8 volumes had more than one printing.

 

https://www.google.ca/search?q=bizarre+comix+belier&biw=2102&bih=957&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD8tmOp_3OAhUM54MKHatGD5cQsAQIMg&dpr=0.65

 

6) Randy Crawford's Nice Day Publications, I assume grew from Crawford's Kennedy listed works: Archie, Conan sex parodies and Nice Day Comix (1974). He seemed to publish dozens of sex related digests in the 80s-90s, under his Nice Day/Lil'/Dirty Comix banner - sex spoofs of Teenage Mutant Turtles, Joan Jett and even some sex toy catalogs. Anything to pay those bills!

 

https://www.google.ca/search?q=bizarre+comix+belier&biw=2102&bih=957&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD8tmOp_3OAhUM54MKHatGD5cQsAQIMg&dpr=0.65#tbm=isch&q=%22nice+day+comix%22&imgrc=VFQg4iMO9JKiKM%3A

 

10) M'Gurk's Sex Primer, a two volume set (more than one printing) of adult sex humor. It's readily available but often overpriced:

 

https://www.google.ca/search?q=bizarre+comix+belier&biw=2102&bih=957&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD8tmOp_3OAhUM54MKHatGD5cQsAQIMg&dpr=0.65#tbm=isch&q=%22M%27Gurk%27s+Sex+Primer%22&imgrc=gs5g6oXqEhB03M%3A

 

11) RE Inc. published dozens of adult humor books in the 70s and 80s, that really remind me of the material in Good Jive Comix. This eBay seller has about a dozen titles currently up for grabs:

 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=syottoys&item=322248082143&_osacat=0&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_from=R40&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313.TR5.TRC3.A0.H0.Xadult+comic.TRS1&_nkw=adult+comic&_sacat=0

 

Hope this suffices.

 

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[i've got something similar, but it's marijuana related, as opposed to acid. It's entitled The Marijuana Consumer's and Dealer's Guide, yellow illustrated cover, but no real art inside. Also have a few issues of Marijuana Monthly. I would occasionally pick these things up when buying undergrounds, but I was never really trying to collect them.

 

Hey Joe,

 

you left out the best part. Your pamphlet was written by "Mary Jane Superweed" and published by the "Stone Kingdom Syndicate" of California. I would buy one!

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But, I have a question about a third collecting area that I was thinking of exploring, but do not know too much about - earlier adult/porno comics (pre Eros and 90s).

 

I am aware of things/titles like:

 

1) Tijuana bilbles

2) San Francisco Ball

3) Bizarre Comix (Belier)

4) Gasm magazine

5) Rump magazine

6) Randy Crawford's Nice Day Publications

7) Peanus (Classex Publications)

8) Gwendolyn booklets

9) Sweeter Gwen

10) M'Gurk's Sex Primer

11) adult books from R.E. Inc

12) Penthouse Comix

13) Hustler Comix

 

Could someone suggest other titles/publishers in this vein that I should keep an eye open for? Or suggest a website or book that has an overview of what's out there?

 

There appear to be a lot of oddball titles out there, aside from those that you mentioned. I haven't actively collected these, nor am I aware of any particular guide that lists them, which is a shame.

 

Here's one that sold on eBay recently. I had never seen this before and was tempted to bid but forgot.

 

Heavy Sex Comix:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1972-HEAVY-SEX-COMIX-MENS-ADULT-RISQUE-MAGAZINE-HIGH-GRADE-NUMBER-1-RARE-/381669435382

 

Some (SOME, I said) of the art in that one is a cut above what is expected in these early sex comics.

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