([June] 1969)
Rip Off Press,
1969 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 12
- On-sale Date
- 1969
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Rip Off Press
- Editing
- Robert Crumb
- Color
- Color Covers, Black and White Interiors
- Dimensions
- 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" (13.33 cm x 20.95 cm)
- Binding
- Saddle-Stitched
- Publishing Format
- One-Shot
Issue Notes
First publication of a story the artist had drawn for himself five years earlier.
Underground Comix are known for using different prices, covers (art or color variations) and/or interior content to distinguish between printings.
1st print June 1969 has no cover price. Has smooth, glossy heavy stock cover.
2nd print has no cover price. Has matt pebble-textured white heavy stock cover.
3rd print has no cover price. Has matt cross-hatched textured white heavy stock cover.
4th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt pebble-textured cover. Has beige/ivory interior pages.
5th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt cross-hatched texured cover. Has beige/ivory interior pages.
6th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth heavy stock cover. Has beige/ivory interior pages.
7th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth heavy stock cover. Has yellow/cream interior pages.
8th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth heavy stock cover. Has white interior pages.
9th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth regular weight cover. Has white interior pages.
10th print has 0.50 USD cover price. Has glossy white cover. Has white interior pages.
This issue has variants:
Underground Comix are known for using different prices, covers (art or color variations) and/or interior content to distinguish between printings.
1st print June 1969 has no cover price. Has smooth, glossy heavy stock cover.
2nd print has no cover price. Has matt pebble-textured white heavy stock cover.
3rd print has no cover price. Has matt cross-hatched textured white heavy stock cover.
4th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt pebble-textured cover. Has beige/ivory interior pages.
5th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt cross-hatched texured cover. Has beige/ivory interior pages.
6th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth heavy stock cover. Has beige/ivory interior pages.
7th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth heavy stock cover. Has yellow/cream interior pages.
8th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth heavy stock cover. Has white interior pages.
9th print has 0.35 USD cover price. Has matt smooth regular weight cover. Has white interior pages.
10th print has 0.50 USD cover price. Has glossy white cover. Has white interior pages.
This issue has variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for R. Crumb's Comics and Stories (1969 series) #1 [10th print]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1086/w100/1086982.jpg?-244988155921435601)
[Indicia]
credits, title page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover with copyright and publisher information at bottom of page.
R. Crumb's Comics and Stories
Fritz the Cat / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Fritz the Cat; Fritz's Mom; Fritz's sister
- Synopsis
- Fritz visits his mother and sister for the first time in years. A little while after he gets there, he goes with his sister for a dip in the river.
- Reprints
-
in Wald & Wiesen Comix (Volksverlag, 1972 series) #3 (Sommer 1973) - in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #2 - Some More Years of Bitter Struggle (May 1988)
- in The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) (May 1993)
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in Obras Completas Crumb (Ediciones La Cúpula, 1985 ? series) #5 - El gato Fritz (1996) - in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #19 - Fritz the Cat (2006)
- in The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (January 2012)
- in Las 7 Vidas del Gato Fritz (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2016 series) (Octubre 2016)
- in Fritz the Cat (Reprodukt, 2017 series) (Juli 2017)
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Indexer Notes
Story ends on the back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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[Indicia]
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2.
R. Crumb's Comics and Stories
Fritz the Cat
This issue was modified by
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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