ROBERT CRUMB STUFF

ARCADE - THE COMICS REVUE - I have #1 through #6, all first printings, in varying condition - All features R. Crumb covers and strips by a variety of underground artists, including R. Crumb - INQUIRE

CHEAP THRILLS LP PROMOTIONAL STICKER - 1969 - 7 3/4" x 10 1/4" - Full color R. Crumb LP front cover produced in sticker form to promote the Big Brother Cheap Thrills LP release - Ultra Mega Rare - Pristine A- condition - INQUIRE

CHEAP THRILLS LAMINATED BOOK COVER - 1969 or 1970 - 20" X 13" (unfolded, when removed from packaging) UNOPENED SEALED COPY - Large R. Crumb full color comic illustration from the famed Big Brother & The Holding Company Cheap Thrills LP, surrounded by a blue border - Original sale price was 69 cents - Produced by Peppetree & packaged along with a Blood Sweat & Tears LP cover book cover - Veritcal hairline bend (NO clolor flaking) is difficult to see, except from a angle - Ultra Mega Rare - INQUIRE

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COEVOLUTION QUARTERLY #24 - Winter 1979 / 1980 - R. Crumb front cover features illustration of Continental Can Corp.factory worker with swastika pupils in his eyes and mushroom cloud blowing out the top of his head with "Let's go get a beer ha - ha - ha" word balloon, smoky, polluted skyline of buildings in background, border design of various commodities (cut & paste, not Crumb illustrations) - Cover has non-color flaking, vertical stress lines along spine, where cover has been opened, small light (difficult to see) stain at upper right corner, a little barely visible foxing at top edge (above main image area), tiny scuff in white background to left of oval image / illustration area, tiny stains on the edges of some of the interior pages (one at right edge of cover in the non-Crumb border) Ultra Rare - Beautiful B/B+ to B+ copy - 45.00

COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL - 1988 - Movie Opening handbill for Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon July 21 to July 27, 1988 - 8 17 / 32" x 11" - Black on yellow paper double sided handbill - Features small illustration each by R. CRUMB, GILBERT SHELTON (Wonder Wart Hog), DAN O'NEILL, ART SPIEGELMAN, BILL GRIFFITH (Zippy the Pinhead), AL FELDSTEIN, WILLIAM GAINES (Alfred E. Neumann) and WILL EISNER (The Spirit) - Backside is large illo of the Spirit by Will Eisner with caption below "WATCH THIS FILM" - Small stain at upper left edge of front side, minor handling bends - Ultra Rare - Beautiful B+ condition - 20.00

CRUMB - David Lynch presents Terry Zwigoff's "CRUMB" - 1995 - Full color postcard promoting the opening of the movie at a Portland art theatre, Cinema 21 - 4" x 6" - Features full color photo of Crumb with young girl lifting her dress in background - Border artwork ala Crumb in dark green surrounded by black background margin - The cards disappeared quickly during the opening night - Ultra Rare - Pristine A / A- shape - 20.00

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CRUMB - David Lynch presents Terry Zwigoff's "CRUMB" - 1985 - 8 1/2" x 11" - Two-sided black and white movie opening flyer / handbill on slick paper stock features same front side image as above listed promo card with several paragraphs of spiels and 23 opening dates / locations across the US on backside. - Pristine A- condition - 15.00

EARTH ISLAND #1 - "Journal of the Gathering Tribes" - 1970 - 10 63 / 64" x 8 13 /32" - Front cover only, thick dull coat paper - Great full color cover by R. Crumb features winged earth design, magazine logo (also by Crumb), green plant border design, two young punks in nose to nose discussion - Tiny bit of lower right corner (ding size) missing - Ultra Rare - INQUIRE

FOREHEAD AND TALES UNTOLD - Weds Sept 15, 1993 at location in Portland Oregon - First / Only printing concert poster, black on white paper stock - 11" x 17" - Features R. Crumb illustration of half clothed mn wrestling with half clothed woman with phone receiver in her hand, Crumb lettering below reads "They rolled over and over on the rug, breathing heavily, all legs and arms and bodies in a desperate juxtaposition......", seems to be an illo from a Bukowski book, etc. - I pulled this poster from a telephone pole when I lived in Portland and thus, has several large chunks at the bottom missing, thus I cannot identify the location of the event - Also has staple holes at upper right and left corners, a few tears, etc. including one staple hole with a tiny bit of missing paper where the figures' hands meet on the telephone receiver! - The illustration is intact excepting the small tear on the hands of the characters - Likely to be the only copy you'll ever see advertised! - Ultra Mega Rare - Horrid B- / C+ or so shape - ON HOLD

GEORGIA STRAIGHT - Feb 11-18, 1970 - Vancouver BC Underground Newspaper Tabloid, Black and White on newsprint - 24 pages - 11 5/16" x 16 3/4" - Features R. Crumb panel as entire front cover image "Okay, Lady, Now Let's Just Say That This DIRT is your conscious mind...." with typeset caption below "Mr. Natural, disguised as a vacuum cleaner salesman, talks to the Housewives" - Page four features one panel cartoon by R. Cobb "Man Demonstrating His Superiority Over Animals", page five "Mike Hannon interviews Charles Manson in Jail Part 2, full page commemorial for Bertrand Russell on page 8, full page strip by the mad arab Abdul Almazrad (likely Spain or a very good imitator) entitled "That is Not Death Which Can Eternal Lie; And With Strange Aeons Even Death May Die", pages 22 and 23 feature full page strip by Leslie (Crumb imitator) "Danny Dilman All American Boy and His Magic Piano - Tales of the Second World War!" - Aging in the paper, a few small tears along the spine and some of the edges of the pages due to handling, plate imprinted address at upper right corner of front cover (this copy was mailed to the Boston Free Press), otherwise very nice shape - Ultra Mega Rare - Beautiful B/B+ to B+ condition - 45.00

HUP #4 - 1992 - Underground Comic - Mutant / Variant with double full color cover (inside front covers are black and white) - R. Crumb artwork throughout - light spine stress - Beautiful B+ copy - INQUIRE

KEEP ON TRUCKIN' STICKER  Vintage early '70s KEEP ON TRUCKIN' bumper sticker features the classic Robert Crumb (aka R. Crumb or jes' plain R Crumb) artwerk - 4 1/2" x 9 7/32" - Printed on vinyl, has "FASSON easy-off PLASTICSIGN" crack'n-peel backside. Guaranteed early '70's issue! One of the boot versions produced in those years following the original appearance of the artwork in the comix - Ultra Mega Rare - Pristine A- condition - 25.00

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MONKEY WRENCH GANG - From the 1990, 2nd printing Crumb illustrated hardback - This is the full color dust jacket (only) by R. Crumb with new photos of Crumb & Abbey that did not appear in the original 1985 (First printing) Crumb illustrated edition - INQUIRE

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MONKEY WRENCH GANG - 1985 Hardback with full color dust jacket by Crumb - 1st printing with Crumb illustrations - Limited print run, 5,000 copies - Very Rare - INQUIRE

MONKEY WRENCH GANG - 1990, 2nd printing - Lower print run than the 1985 edition - Includes photo (on dust jacket) of Crumb & Abbey at Canyonlands National Park near Moab Utah, as well as some of the 1987 Monkey Wrench Gang Calendar illustrations not included in the 1985 edition - INQUIRE

MONKEY WRENCH GANG - 1987 Calendar - First printing - 11 3/4" x 11 27/32" - Illustrations by Crumb, Edward Abbey (RIP) text and color interpreted by Mark Knudson - Published by Dream Garden Press - Features cover illustration in same colors as hardback dust jacket, different scene & illo though, and back cover features the full color illustration from the hardback dust jacket. Inside front cover features black and white photo of Abbey and Crumb at Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah - 12 different colored illustrations inside, a few of which were not included in the first printing hardback book in 1985, along with the misc. small illustrations Crumb realized for the book. - Stress lines, bends along spine, some light discoloration in the white background, a few light, difficult to see bends in the front cover, minor corner dings - Relatively small print run for a nationally distributed calendar and since it did not sell well, a fairly scarce item nowadays - Beautiful B+ copy - INQUIRE

MR. NATURAL - "TWAS EVER THUS" says MR. NATURAL - 1972 Apex Novelties printing - First Printing poster - 17" x 20 11/16" - Full color on thick index stock - Full color R. Crumb illustration originally used in Changes #2 or #3 (a late 60's hippie / new age / spiritual magazine published in the San Francisco Bay Area - Ultra Rare - Beautiful B+ condition - INQUIRE

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NORTHWEST EXTRA! - December 1989 - Volume One, Number Ten - 17 5/8" x 11 5/16" - Black, white and red cover by R. Crumb along with Aline & Sophie, which was taken from Crumb's own Christmas Card - Crumb depicts himself as usual, with moustache, bottle bottom glasses burnt out doofus look, sweater, hard shoes, with brush in left hand while Aline and Sophie paint "Have a Happy Holiday" on easeled canvas - Tabloid published in Olympia Washington by Dennis P. Eichorn, Art Chantry as Art Director, distribution was primarily limited to the Pacific Northwest - 16 pages, excepting the cover, all in black and white on newsprint - Also features "terminology" comic strip by Charles Bukowski with ink by Michael Dougan, "The German Decade" by Hunter S. Thompson, "Book Review" strip by Harvey Pekar, "Somewhere in Pennsylvania" by Harvey Pekar, Joe Zabel & Gary Dum, centerfold by Mitch O'Connell, photo & text about Frank Zappa's cancelled appearance as host of the Tonight Show in the Rock n Roll Confidential column by Dave Marsh, Bad Boys strip by J.R. Williams, Topic Hair by Lynda Barry, Joe Bob Briggs goes to the drive-inn etc. - Very light aging in the paper - Pristine A- copy - 25.00

NORTHWEST EXTRA! - May 1990 - Volume One, Number Thirteen - 17 5/8" x 11 5/16" - Black and white cover by R. Crumb features large illustration of Bukowski in suit gesturing with two fingers (courtesy Water Row Books) - Tabloid published in Olympia, Washington by Dennis P. Eichorn, Art Chantry as Art Director, with distribution primarily limited to the Northwest - 16 pages - Includes poetry and artwork "between the races" by Charles Bukowski, "The Horse Latitudes" by Robert Ferrigno, centerfold illustration by Michael Dougan, Bad Boys strip by J.R. Williams, Community of Whores by Hunter S. Thompson, "Do You Believe in Magic" by Lynda Barry, etc. - Extremely light aging in the paper - Pristine A- copy - 25.00

Promethean ENTERPRISES #1 - 1969 - Underground magazine publication assembled in San Jose California - First / Only printing - 8 l/2 x 10 7/8" - 32 pages - Quality matt black & white textured heavy stock cover, has greenish tint - Front cover features an intense RICK GRIFFIN ravenous rat size Mickey Mouse like rodent using sword to devour battling eyeball creatures - Griffin ink illustration centerspread is an unused Steppenwolf cover drawing and photo of Rick playing guitar in an alley - Next two pages are Griffin illos also - In addition, there's work by Rob Brown, R. CRUMB, Greg Irons, Robert Inwood, George Metzger, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, etc. AND an inside border / logo by GRIFFIN - Editor was Jim Vadeboncour, Jr., Art Director was Al Davoren and Bud Plant was the third member of this mighty triumvirate of outside underground artwork publishing - Small print run due to limited distribution - Ultra Mega Rare - Beautiful B+ condition - INQUIRE for Availability - Click Below for front cover image -

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- View of cover of Promeathan #1, inside front cover and a few select pages of Promethean #1 (click on the web address below):

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Promethean ENTERPRISES #2 - 1970 - Underground Magazine assembled in San Jose, California - 8 3/8" x 10 7/8" - First / Only Printing - 56 pages - Quality heavy stock zine features a RICK GRIFFIN cover (black on matt blue quality heavy stock) of the WHO at the Palladium design (see AOR for a full color poster image which was produced from this original appearance of the illustration) - Griffin centerfold illo of the drawing used as centerpiece illustration of FD-79 (Quaker Oats and his buddy's the Zig Zag Man, Family Dog, and other archetypes), R. Shubb, Greg Irons, R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, John Fawcett, Kenneth Smith, Bob Zoell, Bob Inwood, Rob Brown, George Metzger, Spain Rodriguez, Frank Springer, George Barr, Parley L. Holman and others - Editor was Jim Vadeboncour, Jr. Art Director was Al Davoren and Bud Plant was the third member of this mighty triumvirate of outside underground artwork publishing - Ultra Mega Rare - Pristine B+ copy - INQUIRE for Availability

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Promethean ENTERPRISES #3 - 1971 - Underground Magazine assembled in San Jose, California - 8 3/8" x 11" - 68 pages - Black and orange on white heavy stock cover features an incredible R. CRUMB illustration - 9 pages of R. CRUMB interior illustrations / strips / sketche in black and white, Weird Tales article by Emil Petaja with early cover reproductions (all black and white), along with black and white illustrations by Bob Zoell, George Metzger, Johnny Chambers, John Fawcett, Roy Krenkel, Richard Corben, Rob Brown, Neil Passey full page LED ZEPPELIN illustration, Spain Rodriquez, Kenneth Smith, centerfold by Bob Inwood, Wilhelm Busch, Dennis Nolan, Bob Rice, Jim Valadez, Bill Henry, Bhob Stewart, Raymond Wong, etc. - Magazine editor was Jim Vadeboncour, Jr., Art Director was Al Davoren and Bud Plant was the third member of this mighty triumvirate of outside underground artwork publishing Low print run, small distribution - Ultra Mega Rare - Pristine A- / B+ condtion - INQUIRE

Promethean ENTERPRISES /#4 - ALL KINE COMICS BY Promethean ENTERPRISES (subtitle by Zoell) - 1971 - Underground Magazine assembled in San Jose, California - 8 3/8" x 10 3/4" - 80 pages - Full color glossy cover by Bob Zoell features young black kid airburshed in 30's "rounded" comic style reading Promethean #3 (with Crumb cover showing), cartoon city in the background, 6 small kid characters in different positions surrounding center image of cover - Interior pages are printed on quality paper (as usual), black on white - 9+ pages of sketches by R. CRUMB (including the double page centerfold illo of a SNOID), black on glossy white back cover strip by RICK GRIFFIN, GREG IRONS contents page illo, 3 pages by VICTOR MOSCOSO, 5 page strip "Miraculous Tantric Tales by JOHN THOMPSON, 2 pages of George Metzger strips, 4 page strip "Comic Fans" by Vince Davis, 3 pages by John Fawcett, 6 page article on crime comics "Blast the Rats" by Al Davoren and Parley Holman, 2 1/2 pages of strips by JOHNNY CHAMBERS, 1 page strip by AL DAVOREN, 2 pages by Bob Inwood, 6 page Dennis Nolan strip, 1 page illo by ROB BROWN, 8 page strip by Tom Bird, 3 pages by Neil Passey (two feature a Zeppelin, one with semi nude women), 4 pages of panels by Keith Kleespies, 1 page illo by Doug Wildey, R.L. Tubbesing, Bhob Stewart, and 3 pages of sketches by Al Hurter "Nostalgia Corner" - Editor was Jim Vadeboncour, Art Director was Al Davoren and Bud Plant was the third member of this mighty triumvirate of outside underground artwork publishing - John Fawcett insert ROWBOAT illustration / cut-out construction is missing - Cover has been chewed on in a 3 small areas by silverfish, general handling blemishes - Rare - Beautiful B/B+ to B+ shape - INQUIRE

Promethean ENTERPRISES #5 - 1974 - Underground Magazine assembled in San Jose, California - 8 3/8" x 11" - 86 pages - Full color cover of painting by ROBERT WILLIAMS accompanies his magazine logo lettering - Interior pages in black and white on quality paper - 32 pages of strips & sketches by R. CRUMB including CRUMB interview by AL DAVOREN! - Contents page by Sci-Fi artist George Barr - 9 page George Metzger strip "Panoply Mind" - Centerfold poster "KSAN COMICS" early 70's strip by VICTOR MOSCOSO - 11 pages strip by Bob Inwood, 4 page strip by Vince Davis "Travels with Myron" (Moose), 2 pages of cartoon illos by BOB ZOELL, full color back cover by ALEX NINO, 2 pages of surreal comix by AL DAVOREN, 2 page moebius comic strip by Keith Kleespies, 1 page illustration by David Karbonik, 6 page Crime Comics strip by Clifford Neal and 1 page strip by TRINA - Editor was Jim Vadeboncour, Art Director was Al Davoren and Bud Plant was the third member of this mighty triumvirate of outside underground artwork publishing - Rare - Pristine A- / B+ shape - INQUIRE

RAMPARTS - March 1972 - Full color front cover & 6 page article by Jon Stewart discusses the Bakshi FRITZ THE CAT animated movie, as well as Crumb's side of the fiasco - Cover is worn, 1 7/8" cover split along binding edge, cover has handling bends, interior pages have light toning (aging in the paper) - Ultra Rare - Beautiful B/B+ shape - 35.00

THE ROCKET #137 - March 1991 - Tabloid printed on newsprint & published in Seattle Washington at The Rocket Towers - 11 1/2" x 13 3/4" - 44 pages - Front cover in full color by P. Bagge features characature of R. Crumb playing banjo whilst sitting, imagining a dressed woman's derrier in a a thought balloon, yellow background with red "THE ROCKET" lettering above, with caption "...Still Truckin' After All These Years!" - Rest of the newspaper is printed in black and white - Also features two page spread with large R. Crumb reprint (?) illustration covering multiple columns width top to bottom "How D'ya Shut This Goddamn Thing Off??? ICan't Stand it, I Tell You!!" featuring an exasperated, gasping & desperate Crumb clutching at a muzak speaker emerging from the ceiling, blaring plenty of loud note symbols indicating loud volume at close range, along with interview with R. Crumb by Michael Dougan, just prior to Crumb's exodus from what was left of the US, to France, his current home - AND, Rev. Horton Heat by Dennis White, Iron Maiden / Scorpions by Jeff Gilbert, mug shots of Jim Morrison taken in New Haven Connecticut highlighting Doors movie review & commentary by Doors members, large article on Hal Blaine (Elvis' drummer), centerfold featuring GWAR in bloody red, black and white comic / cartoon form in full stage regalia advertising upcoming gig at The Melody Ballroom on March 20, ad for upcoming NIRVANA gig at the Commodore Ballroom in BC March 8, Michael Dougan cartoon, Gary Heffern review, etc. - Pristine A- condition - 20.00

US - A PAPERBACK MAGAZINE #1 - 1969 - First Printing - Paperback book published by Bantam Books - KOZMIC KAPERS, 16 pages of black and white R. CRUMB sketches, along with short bio and small black & white photo - Poetry by JIM MORRISON of the DOORS along with short bio and small black & white photo - Poetry by Ed Sanders of the FUGS - etc. - Spine has some wear lines from reading though still tight, some general wear - Ultra Rare (low distribution) - Beautiful B/B+ to B+ condition - INQUIRE

WHOLE EARTH REVIEW #47 - July 1985 - 10 9/16" x 7 11/16" - 122 pages - Features R. Crumb illustrated story "A Juvenile Democracy" by Gnaizda, one large black and white panel illustration on inside front cover "Face Reality!!! (No Easy Task) and small panel illo on opposite page "Why There's Nothing to It..." with small midget character proclaiming "We Shall Have a New Order" - Subscription copy has handling bends in front cover from being thumbed, though difficult to see (no color flaking) except from an angle - Front cover has full color FLYING SAUCERS IN SAN FRANCISCO photo advertising interior story - Also features Ursula LeGuin & Anne Herbert - Light aging in the paper - Ultra Rare - Beautiful B / B+ to B+ condition - Inquire

WILD DOG - 1985 - First printing poster - 18" x 24" - Full color - Originally created to promote a magazine which remains unpublished - Comic artwork by R. Crumb and Victor Moscsco features an unflattering caricature of S.F.'s former mayor Dianne Feinstein as "Bo Peep" with her dress forming a capital dome with lots of police and criminals duking it out underneath, in the shadow of her black nyloned legs, with magazine logo above - Scarce - Pristine B+ / A- to B+ condition - 65.00

YAZOO CATALOG - "The Most Comprehensive Collection of Historical Acoustic Blues" - Original issue (Ca. early 90's to 1993) - 8 3/8" x 10 27/32" - 20 pages of slick paper - Front cover features five or six R. Crumb acoustic blues LP covers in full color along with several non-Crumb acoustic blues covers, deep blue background / border - Interior black and white pages includes many LP covers with artwork by Robert Crumb (R. Crumb) along with plenty of black and white photos of the blues greats Charley Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, Bo Cart, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Furry Lewis, Blind Boy Fuller, Charlie Patton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Tampa Red, Ma Rainey, Albert King, etc. - Ultra Rare - Pristine A- condition - 25.00

YELLOW DOG SET - 12 Tabloids - Special 5th Anniversary Limited Edition - May, 1973 - Issues #1 through 12 - Include the two double issues #9/10 & #11/12 - In Original stamped "YELLOW DOG TABLOIDS 1-12 SPECIAL 5th ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION" Manilla Envelope - Tabloids all have light to medium paper aging - the manilla envelope is worn and weathered - The comics are in great condition, though there's a minor handling tear at a few corners - Rare - Pristine A- to B+ / A- condition - INQUIRE