Ja, Unka Kreepy har gravet ned i gemmerne og fundet gode kuriositeter frem, fra hans fanzine og undergrunds-sysler i de magiske år 1969 og 1970. Underground comix var stadig et relativt nyt fænomen i 1969-70, da “Zap Comix” #1 jo kun lige var udkommet i starten af 1968. Men altså allerede året efter, i 1969, udgav Unka Kreepy en guide til “undergroud” (sic) comix, men kalder dem “comics” på forsiden. Den mere almindelige “comix” betegnelse var måske ikke slået igennem endnu, hvem ved. I dag skelner vi jo skarpt, og til tider også strengt, mellem “comics” og “comix”, og er det med “x”, er det ikke for de bornerte! Og da slet ikke for børn! Jeg læste de første amerikanske underground comix i Interpresses “Underground” album serie, Flipkompaniet (1976) og Harold Hedd (1977) – dem og så “Rowlf” af Richard Corben i “Karat Serien” i 1977 har været noget af det første amerikanske undergrund oversat til dansk. Så var der Freddy Miltons fanzine “Sejd”, dér var der Richard Corben i #4 (1973), #5 (1974), og #8 (1976), og de er ret dyre i Komiklex, 200-500 kr. pr. stk. Unka Kreepy fik nu ikke ret i, at underground hæfterne ville overtage markedet fra de etablerede forlag som Marvel og DC og alle de andre “schlock houses”, men på en måde fik han måske alligevel lidt ret, idet underground comix fænomenet udviklede sig til at blive først et “groundlevel” fænomen med serier som “Elfquest” og “Cerebus” i 70’erne og 80’erne, og så senere igen til det meget succésfulde graphic novel fænomen, der endelig synes at have vundet borgerskabets accept i lande som USA og til dels også i England. Unka Kreepy har fået selveste Rick Griffin og Rory Hayes til at bidrage til guiden, to selv for underground comix meget “outsider” tegnere, legender begge, og et syret scoop for Unka Kreepy dengang i det magiske år, 1969. Og i 1970 udgiver han så Art Spiegelman og Jay Lynch i sit “Doppler Gang” fanzine. Unka Kreepy skrev sig ind i tegneseriernes historie med al den hektiske undergrunds-aktivitet i to så hektiske og turbulente år som 1969 og 1970. Men det er godt gået af Unka Kreepy. Og så en guide til 25 cents, med forside af Rick Griffin, hva’ gi’r I.
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A Checklist of Underground Comics was another of my projects in 1969. My ad, seen here as it appeared in Rocket’s Blast #66, was rushed to meet RBCC’s advertising deadline. Note the misspelled title!
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1966-1975 RBCC – ROCKET’S BLAST COMICS COLLECTOR COMIC BOOKS FANZINES FOR SALE
THE fanzine that began Comics Fandom in the early 1960s. The Rocket’s Blast began as a science fiction fanzine that later merged with another fanzine, the Comics Collector, continuing the Rocket’s Blast numbering and simply became known as the RBCC. The RBCC was one of the first to bring fans together in a large forum to buy and sell comics through the mail BEFORE the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide existed, BEFORE the Buyer’s Guide to Comic Fandom NOW the Comic Buyers Guide existed, BEFORE Comic Shops as we know them existed, BEFORE the Internet, Web Stores and Online Auction sites existed.
Unless you could attend a Convention in a major city the RBCC was usually the only way for fans to get back issues.
The RBCC was filled with ads for Golden Age and Silver Age comics (the then prices would make you cry today!), movies, old time radio, original art, convention reports, and other various fan publications. It also had great articles, interviews, comic reprints, and artwork from pros like Frank Brunner, Wallace Wood, Mike Ploog, Steve Ditko, Neal Adams, Frank Frazetta, Vaughn Bode, Tom Sutton, Berni Wrightson. Finally, the RBCC was also a showcase for then amateur artists BEFORE they turned pro including Don Newton, Mike Zeck, Kerry Gammill, Bret Blevins, and others.
Print runs on these RBCC’s were between 1000 for the early issues and 2250 for the later issues (1500 for #121) so today, 35-44 years later, possibly less than 10% of the print run survives making THESE ISSUES RARE and HARD TO FIND especially in these grades.
Og her er så Unka Kreepy’s “Doppler Gang” fra 1970, med Art Spiegelman og Jay Lynch, her nævnt som “Jayzey Lynch”, længe før Jay-Z, hiphop, og andet nymodens funk!
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At Lowell High School, Ken “Crawford” Kaffke and I first met as members of the SFFWWTC (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Witchcraft and Weird Things Club). Ken was well into Carl Barks and EC comics, but was particularly focused on the new undergrounds.
Up until this time, I had found the artistic technique in Zap Comix incomprehensible.
Ken helped me to appreciate the individual pen strokes and to revel in the magnificent blackness of the ink.
The black and white printing served to evoke the accessibility and freedom of the form.
You didn’t need to be a corporation to publish, and publish we did, in The Private Papers of the Doppler Gang, the SFFWWTC’s zine.
– Mark Ungar
The Private Papers of the Doppler Gang, cover (1970) by Art Spiegelman and Jay Lynch. They had stumbled upon our “weird stuff” as they called it, on the bottom shelf of the SF Comic Book Co.