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The best of Comix Book / introduction by Stan Lee ; foreword by Denis Kitchen ; designed and edited by John Lind.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Milwaukie, Oregon : Kitchen Sink Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Edition: Retail editionDescription: 1 online resource (184 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour))Content type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781621158837
Other title:
  • Subtitle on cover: When Marvel Comics went underground
  • Comix book [Added title page title]
Uniform titles:
  • Comix book. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: The best of Comix Book.Online resources:
Contents:
The birth, death, and afterlife of Comix Book / James Vance -- Barefootz / Howard Cruse -- The abduction of Dot Darling / Leslie Cabarga -- Old home week / Kim Deitch -- Flip the bird! / John Pound -- We fellow traveleers / Justin Green -- On the job: true stories of workaday drama / Skip Williamson -- The rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall of the American revolution / Joel Beck -- Waldo in The penny pinchers from outer space! / Kim Deitch -- Calvin / Basil Wolverton -- The human brain / Joel Beck -- Famous street fights: "The champ" / Harvey Pekar & Robert Armstrong -- Bestial passion / Kim Deitch -- Snappy Sammy Snoot in Sammy encounters the black mafia / Skip Williamson -- Ezekiel Wolf / Ted Richards -- Maus / Art Spiegelman -- Fleischer Bros. Inc. / Leslie Cabarga -- Flip Da Boid in Bad karma / John Pound -- The corpse gobblin' ogre of Columbite Mountain / S. Clay Wilson -- Two fools in a cave, or The "origins of art" / Ted Richards & Justin Green -- Wonder Person gets knocked up / Trina Robbins -- Barefootz in Mamasoyboy vumulukrishkrosh and a pox on your panty hose / Howard Cruse -- Foggy Bottom / Bill Sanders -- Crisis comix! / John Pound -- Panthea / Trina Robbins -- Henry Henpeck: "King of the road" / Willy Murphy -- Tom Terkey and the candy-colored tangerine-flake streamline baby! / Gary Hallgren -- Memoirs from the white middle class kid! / Joel Beck -- Krishna Horowitz in The cabbage fiend / Kim Deitch -- Tru-life cartoons / Skip Williamson -- Die Bubbeh / Sharon Rudahl -- Super Sammy Smoot battles to the death with the irrational shithead / Skip Williamson -- The fickle freak / Kim Deitch -- Gildas goose / Michael Ploog -- The bottle shop / Lee Marrs -- A day in the life: "Hippo Airlines flight nine now boarding at gate five" / Ted Richards -- Ozzie and Lotta in Mystic madness / Robert Armstrong -- 39/74 / Guyla and Alex Toth -- Lefty Doomsday babysits little Snooks! / Joel Beck.
Summary: In 1974, Marvel publisher Stan Lee and underground pioneer Denis Kitchen collaborated on a series: Comix Book. Featuring underground comix by Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson and S. Clay Wilson, this best-of collects them all! This book has an introduction by the legendary Stan Lee and a foreword by underground pioneer Denis Kitchen. This is a hardcover collection reprinting the best of the 1970s series Comix Book!. --Provided by publisher.
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"Original series edited by Denis Kitchen and instigated by Stan Lee."

The birth, death, and afterlife of Comix Book / James Vance -- Barefootz / Howard Cruse -- The abduction of Dot Darling / Leslie Cabarga -- Old home week / Kim Deitch -- Flip the bird! / John Pound -- We fellow traveleers / Justin Green -- On the job: true stories of workaday drama / Skip Williamson -- The rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall of the American revolution / Joel Beck -- Waldo in The penny pinchers from outer space! / Kim Deitch -- Calvin / Basil Wolverton -- The human brain / Joel Beck -- Famous street fights: "The champ" / Harvey Pekar & Robert Armstrong -- Bestial passion / Kim Deitch -- Snappy Sammy Snoot in Sammy encounters the black mafia / Skip Williamson -- Ezekiel Wolf / Ted Richards -- Maus / Art Spiegelman -- Fleischer Bros. Inc. / Leslie Cabarga -- Flip Da Boid in Bad karma / John Pound -- The corpse gobblin' ogre of Columbite Mountain / S. Clay Wilson -- Two fools in a cave, or The "origins of art" / Ted Richards & Justin Green -- Wonder Person gets knocked up / Trina Robbins -- Barefootz in Mamasoyboy vumulukrishkrosh and a pox on your panty hose / Howard Cruse -- Foggy Bottom / Bill Sanders -- Crisis comix! / John Pound -- Panthea / Trina Robbins -- Henry Henpeck: "King of the road" / Willy Murphy -- Tom Terkey and the candy-colored tangerine-flake streamline baby! / Gary Hallgren -- Memoirs from the white middle class kid! / Joel Beck -- Krishna Horowitz in The cabbage fiend / Kim Deitch -- Tru-life cartoons / Skip Williamson -- Die Bubbeh / Sharon Rudahl -- Super Sammy Smoot battles to the death with the irrational shithead / Skip Williamson -- The fickle freak / Kim Deitch -- Gildas goose / Michael Ploog -- The bottle shop / Lee Marrs -- A day in the life: "Hippo Airlines flight nine now boarding at gate five" / Ted Richards -- Ozzie and Lotta in Mystic madness / Robert Armstrong -- 39/74 / Guyla and Alex Toth -- Lefty Doomsday babysits little Snooks! / Joel Beck.

In 1974, Marvel publisher Stan Lee and underground pioneer Denis Kitchen collaborated on a series: Comix Book. Featuring underground comix by Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson and S. Clay Wilson, this best-of collects them all! This book has an introduction by the legendary Stan Lee and a foreword by underground pioneer Denis Kitchen. This is a hardcover collection reprinting the best of the 1970s series Comix Book!. --Provided by publisher.

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