(1970)
Rip Off Press,
1970 Series
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Rip Off Press [not printed on item]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
The indicia title is "Hydrogen Bomb Funnies." The cover title is "Hydrogen Bomb and Biochemical Warfare Funnies"
1st & 3rd print have 1.00 USD cover price.
2nd print has 0.50 USD cover price.
This issue has variants:
1st & 3rd print have 1.00 USD cover price.
2nd print has 0.50 USD cover price.
This issue has variants:
Apocalyptic Apocrypha for Apopletic Apostates
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gilbert Shelton (signed)
- Inks
- Gilbert Shelton
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Spiro Agnew; Richard Nixon; Billy Graham
- Keywords
- adult
![Cover Thumbnail for Hydrogen Bomb Funnies (1970 series) #1 [0.50 USD 2nd print]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/850/w100/850251.jpg?209979737652752112)
[Interior Front Cover]
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers [Phineas Freakears; Freewheelin' Franklin; Fat Freddy]; The Chief of the Secret Police
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
[Frontispiece]
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gilbert Shelton (signed)
- Inks
- Gilbert Shelton
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Keywords
- adult
[no title indexed]
Mr. Sketchum / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I got a million of 'em! I'm gonna send some o' my cartoons to Bertrand Russell!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mr. Sketchum
- Synopsis
- An H-bomb blows up Mr. Sketchum right after he mails some cartoons to Bertrand Russell.
- Reprints
-
in The Best of The Rip Off Press (Rip Off Press, 1973 series) #1 - Comix (1973) - in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #7 - Hot 'n' Heavy (November 1991)
-
in The R. Crumb Handbook (MQ Publications, 2005 series) (2005) - in A History of Underground Comics: 20th Anniversary Edition (Ronin Publishing, 2012 series) (2012)
-
- Keywords
- adult
Indexer Notes
A completely redrawn version of a story that first appeared in Yellow Dog #3. The dialogue is left intact.
Wonder Wart-Hog and the Invasion of the Pigs From Uranus!
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Wonder Wart-Hog [Philbert Desanex]; Richard Milhous Nixon (death); Spiro T. Agnew; Editor; The Emperor; James
- Synopsis
- The Emperor of Uranus sends his army to invade Earth after he hears that its being riddled by conservationists.
- Reprints
- in Nasty Tales (Meep Comix Group, 1971 ? series) #2
- in The Best of The Rip Off Press (Rip Off Press, 1973 series) #1 - Comix (1973)
-
in Jymy sarjat (Graafinen Kustannus Oy, 1973 series) #4/1973 (1973) - in Wonder Wart-Hog and the Nurds of November: Gilbert Shelton's Exciting Cartoon Novel of Election-Year Politics, International Nuclear Terror, Professional Football, Science Fiction, Motorcycle and Auto Racing, Pestilence, Famine, Economic Collapse (Rip Off Press, 1980 series) (1980)
- in Underground Classics (Rip Off Press, 1985 series) #12 (1990)
-
- Keywords
- adult
Indexer Notes
Thanks to "The Hog of Steel" archives for some of the listed reprint credits.
Uncle Leonard and his Flying Trips Machine
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Uncle Leonard
- Reprints
-
in U-Comix Sonderband (Volksverlag, 1973 series) #6 - Dave Sheridan (1974) which is reprinted - in U-Comix (Volksverlag, 1969 series) #12 (Winter 1976)
-
- Keywords
- adult
Beatifica Somnambula
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Old Man Trimble; Bobby (Trimble's wife)
- Keywords
- adult
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers [Phineas Freakears; Freewheelin' Franklin; Fat Freddy]
- Keywords
- adult
The Return of E2!
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- E2
- Keywords
- adult
Raw War Comics
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; war
- Characters
- Slugger McCord (death); Ace Johnson (death); Joe Spence; Major “Tuck” Pucker; Quan Hoy
- Synopsis
- Five soldiers meet their untimely end in this anti-war story.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
Space Age Shanannyguns
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Speedy Spivac; Tomorrow Topkins
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
The Last Laugh: A One Act Play for the Theatre of the Absurd
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
Little Orphan Amphetamine
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Orphan Amphetamine; Daddy Gruntcakes
- Reprints
- in Die militanten Panthertanten (Melzer, 1971 series) (1971) which is reprinted
- in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Rip Off Press, 1971 series) #1 (1971) which is reprinted
- in Melzers Comic Reader (Melzer, 1975 series) (1975)
- in The Best of The Rip Off Press (Rip Off Press, 1973 series) #2 - The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (1981)
- in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Library (Rip Off Press, 1988 series) #1 (1988)
- in A History of Underground Comics: 20th Anniversary Edition (Ronin Publishing, 2012 series) (2012)
-
- Keywords
- adult
Jesus, Saviour of the World
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Jesus Christ; Souperman; God; Richard Nixon (silent cameo)
- Synopsis
- Jesus and Souperman try to reconstruct Earth which has been completely destroyed by nuclear weapons.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
If I Should Die 'fore the Rest of You Should
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
Wonder Wart-Hog Says: This Is Supposed To Be A Free Country!!
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies / illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Gilbert Shelton
- Pencils
- Gilbert Shelton (signed)
- Inks
- Gilbert Shelton
- Colors
- Gilbert Shelton
- Letters
- Gilbert Shelton
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Wonder Wart-hog
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
Indexer Notes
back cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Apocalyptic Apocrypha for Apopletic Apostates
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
1.
[Interior Front Cover]
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
2.
[Frontispiece]
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
3.
["I got a million of 'em! I'm gonna send some o' my cartoons to Bertrand Russell!"]
Mr. Sketchum -
4.
Wonder Wart-Hog and the Invasion of the Pigs From Uranus!
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
5.
Uncle Leonard and his Flying Trips Machine
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
6.
Beatifica Somnambula
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
7.
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
8.
The Return of E2!
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
9.
Raw War Comics
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
10.
Space Age Shanannyguns
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
11.
The Last Laugh: A One Act Play for the Theatre of the Absurd
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
12.
Little Orphan Amphetamine
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
13.
Jesus, Saviour of the World
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
14.
If I Should Die 'fore the Rest of You Should
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
15.
Afterwards
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies -
16.
Wonder Wart-Hog Says: This Is Supposed To Be A Free Country!!
Hydrogen Bomb Funnies
This issue was modified by, among others
- Mark Gordon
- Paul Green
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Steven Samuels
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