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Not my copy, as I have no camera, but picked up this yesterday! Lots of Ditko inks within as well as classic comics of a fetish type! My mag of the week!!!

Clarion Alley, San Francisco, CA 04/10/16

My copy of Thunda #1 would be the book I'd want signed if I had my choice of only one.

Kinda related....with comments from Jay Lynch: http://mentalfloss.com/article/77142/trash-cash-oral-history-garbage-pail-kids

While wandering in and out of what is left of good second hand stores along Haight Street this afternoon I stumbled onto a nice, and nicely priced, cache of old underground newspapers circa 1968-69 titled The San Francisco Express Times in an anarchist book shop. There are a lot of comics and cartoons from Ron Cobb, Jaxon and a few others sprinkled throughout the radical political commentary, poetry, fiction and music reviews. I hadn't seen this newspaper before so I did a little research on it when I arrived home and found that it was the precursor to a paper called Good Times that lasted until 1972. I then found a documentary about Good Times on line and saw that it contained a couple of shots of UG in it's natural habitat on a stand and in a rack, so I thought I'd share some grabs of the shots here, for posterity!

Great find indeed! I believe those are Topps Ugly Buttons. They were issued in 1967 and 24 buttons make up a complete set. I love those specimens, and they are in lovely shape. Half the series was painted by the great Norman Saunders of Mars Attacks fame and elsewhere. Thanks for the info. I have had them for a long time and believe I got them all from the same person. I never knew what they were just that I liked them. My favorite set is the "Fink" buttons.(Wolverton art) I'm only missing a couple of those. I even have a few wrappers and the store box I believe. Funny! I just sent a note to CZ telling him about Fink Buttons. I bought an unopened box around 1980 that is still untouched, but I have scans of all the buttons from another source, so I've maintained keeping the full box intact. Some relative or housecleaner is going to luck out when I die, I suppose.....more than likely it'll probably end up getting tossed!!!!! Did somebody say "Fink Buttons"...

Got my 2 copies at Last Gasp the day they posted it in their inventory. One is amongst my other Zap 1st prints, and the other is at the bindery with #9-15 about to become a permanent member of my book shelf, if not already, as it's been there almost a month so I'm expecting the call any day. I also consider #16 a 1st, but technically, I'm really not convinced that's the right way to classify it. The bibliomaniac in me is fighting the UG collector occupying the same space......sounds like a job for therapy, eh? Complete Wimmen's is on my back burner. I have most of the issues involved and having gone back through a few of them, and doing a bit of a re-read, I'm not feeling the urgency to buy a copy of the set right away. There are a few other books higher on my need-to-have list at the moment.

From what I understand he was the keeper of the stats, and the main reason the set was so deluxe and expensive. Therefore it's baffling that he was the hold out of the surviving contributors about the signature aspect.

Sweet story. FB is famously bad at shipping stuff correctly. Most of the time it's items that are either packed poorly and damaged or books are missing. Looks like you got the big win! I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have been liable for anything sent to you by mistake or unsolicited. Crazy story and I'm envious. No way can I afford one, let alone two, of those sets. I decided to take matters into my own hands. My complete Zap is a two volume DIY bind that includes, so far, tipped in signatures of Wilson, Spain, Moscoso and Griffin with Mavrides and Williams signing on my front endpapers. Back in the mid-80's when The Art Of Rock book was published, the main 5 poster artists had a benefit where they signed a bunch of stuff, and this was before Moscoso started charging. I had a couple things signed by him, one of which was a business card stamped with his logo that he signed, very graciously, and I had tipped into his monograph, Sex, Rock and Optical Illusions. The card I tipped into my first volume of Zap is a ticket from the benefit that featured music from Jerry Garcia and a few others. It was signed not only by Moscoso and Griffin, but also Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley. So while the latter two had nothing to do with Zap, whoever inherits my binds gets a little bonus, I suppose. Now I need to fly over to France and get Crumb and Shelton to complete the dream! Also, in volume 2 of Zap, my #15 is signed by Wilson, Mavrides, Spain and Williams, so it's a nutty melange, to be sure!!! Someday I hope Fantagraphics will release The Zap Story volume as a stand alone book. Until then, it's my only regret in not being able to buy a Zap Box. So it goes, but since FB always finds a way to recycle stuff, I'm feeling optimistic that it will happen sooner rather than later.

This eBay listing pretty much acts as an "unboxing" of the set. Zap Box set on eBay Even though the sealed packs are still sealed, I don't see where there could be a separate stand alone version of Zap #16, and the label itself doesn't read like there is a stand alone copy included. I always just assumed it was a stand alone book in the box set. Making the recently issued Zap #16 either a 1st Thus, or 1st Revised Edition, technically speaking, since it does contain material not found in the true 1st edition, i.e. Chapter whatever in the boxed set. I knew it couldn't be as 50 surmised, but having not seen an open set, and he saying he had one, I thought something must be lost in our communication somewhere down the line. To answer the original question, then, there is no 2nd printing yet of the standalone Zap #16.

So are there 2 versions of Zap #16 in the box set? One as part of volume 4 and one as a standalone copy in a special compartment with the other bonuses? I've not heard of that before.

This begs a question since I didn't buy the box. Was the #16 printed in the boxset a separate volume or part of what appears to be Volume 4 in the set? If it is such, then the #16 that FB just released is a 'first thus', as it's the first stand alone version of #16. The one in the boxset is the first appearance of #16 and technically the first edition, because it's not a reprint. Since #16 on it's own has a couple pages not appearing in the boxset, it would be '1st Thus' or 'revised'. I don't believe it's gone into a second printing yet, though.

Great find indeed! I believe those are Topps Ugly Buttons. They were issued in 1967 and 24 buttons make up a complete set. I love those specimens, and they are in lovely shape. Half the series was painted by the great Norman Saunders of Mars Attacks fame and elsewhere. Thanks for the info. I have had them for a long time and believe I got them all from the same person. I never knew what they were just that I liked them. My favorite set is the "Fink" buttons.(Wolverton art) I'm only missing a couple of those. I even have a few wrappers and the store box I believe. Funny! I just sent a note to CZ telling him about Fink Buttons. I bought an unopened box around 1980 that is still untouched, but I have scans of all the buttons from another source, so I've maintained keeping the full box intact. Some relative or housecleaner is going to luck out when I die, I suppose.....more than likely it'll probably end up getting tossed!!!!!

Agreed! Wish I had some. What I do have is a near set of Topps Batty Buttons from 1973, which doesn't have the cool art found in the Ugly set, but does sport a lot of photos of Universal Monsters with clever little bon mots attached to their close-ups. Next time I crank up my scanner I'll try to get a scan to post here. For the nonce, here's what they look like from some other collector's kind photos:

Great find indeed! I believe those are Topps Ugly Buttons. They were issued in 1967 and 24 buttons make up a complete set. I love those specimens, and they are in lovely shape. Half the series was painted by the great Norman Saunders of Mars Attacks fame and elsewhere.

A little behind the scenes action of the set of Diary Of A Teenage Girl, thanks to a friend that works at The Magazine.....note the Crumb poster on the wall, in the last couple of shots, which is a commission and image that they've been using to promote the store for decades....they may still give away mini-posters of the image when asked!!!

Well, if we're going to illuminate and edify with what we think are new or more recent additions to the spirit of UG, allow me to nominate my favorite bit of comical wisdom of the current decade: And a taste.....the first page: It only gets better from there!!!! I smell a certain affinity, if you fellas catch my, um, drift.....

That Batman #199 is probably my favorite cover of any Batman comic. It made a major impression as a little kid when I bought it off the rack originally......probably the sweat beads and the little DC covers....also, loved the breaking of reality, or surreality...

That's not a comic shop. It's a store called The Magazine which still exists today on Larkin Street near Geary. Around a decade or so ago you could find really great UG's there for a song. I got my copy of C*nt Comics there for $2 (as well as many others, too numerous to recall at this point). They dressed it specially for the movie to make it look more like Gary Arlington's store, the San Francisco Comic Book Company, which had all that stuff on the walls and really all over the place during that time period, and really up until he closed the place. But The Magazine is a real and extant place and if you are ever in San Francisco, I recommend it wholeheartedly. Be aware, though, that they mostly deal in Straight and Gay porn mags. If you are looking for something specific, ask at the counter and they'll let you know as they have literally tons of mags and periodicals that are filed away in locations that only the staff has access to.

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Actually, I was just getting up. But since I already own a copy it's not something I usually look for. Somebody got a nice deal and I guess it's this type of opportunity that keeps folks regularly checking what's on Ebay. Sorry for your loss and I wish you the best success in your pursuit of Raw #1.

Sorry it took so long. Scanner issues!

A great Griffin page I hadn't seen before: http://www.christiancomicsinternational.org/griffin_pioneer.html

Still looking for Peanus, eh? Well if you recall I found mine in the kids section of a thrift store. Sure, lightning striking twice is unlikely, but still possible. People sorting things tend not to pay attention to the fact that while it looks like the real C. Brown and Co., it's not. Therefore look where you don't expect to find it. I'm proof that it's the sort of thing that does occur.

The Martians and insectoid monsters from my set of Mars Attacks cards are probably at the top of my list, but I'm also partial to the creatures featured in the Topps Outer Limits set as sampled from the wrapper, as featured in Count Zero's avatar. I did like the Aurora Witch from the set of monster models too!