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Robert Crumb cvr/art. Undergrounds are so overlooked & underappreciated. Buy 'em up now


Zap Comix #1 was published in San Francisco in early 1968 — and has become renowned as the title that emerged from the various small presses to define the "comix" movement. It certainly helped that Zap featured the work of satirical cartoonist Robert Crumb, who'd become a (reluctant) superstar of the emerging counter-culture. Some 1,500-5,000 copies were printed by Charles Plymell, a Beat writer who shared a house with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady when LSD hit San Francisco in the early 1960s. Many of these first issues were sold on the streets of Haight-Ashbury out of a baby stroller pushed by Crumb or his wife. In years to come, the comic's sales would be most closely linked with alternative venues such as head shops.