Motor City Comics
#1
[0.75 USD 6th print]
- Price:
- 0.75 USD
- Pages:
- 28
- Indicia Publisher:
- Rip Off Press
- Brand:
- Rip Off Press
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Standard modern US format; Black and white interior; Color covers; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Motor City Comics (Rip Off Press, 1969 series) #1.
Underground Comix are known for using different prices, covers (art or color variations) and/or interior content to distinguish between printings.
1st print April 1969 has 0.50 USD cover price. Has no cover logo or copyright symbol on inside of front cover.
2nd print has 0.50 USD cover price. Copyright symbol added to inside of front cover.
3rd print has 0.50 USD cover price. Rip Off Press brand added to cover.
4th print has 0.50 USD cover price. Rip Off Press address on back cover. 1st-3rd print had Print Mint address.
5th print has 0.50 USD cover price. Has matte finish cover. 6th print has 0.75 USD cover price.
7th print has 2.50 USD cover price. Published by Last Gasp.
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Deep Meaning Comics
Savannah Foomo / comic story / 0.75 page
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb
Content Information
- Reprints:
- Keywords:
- adult
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Desperate Character
comic story / 0.25 page
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb
Content Information
- Reprints:
- Keywords:
- adult
The Inimitable Boingy Baxter
Boingy Baxter / comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Boingy Baxter [Milton Baxter]; Boingy's Wife; Wife's Best Friend; Chinese Dentist
- Synopsis:
- Milton bounces his way to China to avoid both his wife and the FBI.
- Reprints:
- Keywords:
- adult
Lenore Goldberg and her Girl Commandos
Lenore Goldberg / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters:
- Lenore Goldberg; Janet Jones; Muncie; Bob
- Synopsis:
- Lenore and the commandos barge into a gathering of intellectuals to make a statement on female liberation.
- Reprints:
-
in The Best of The Rip Off Press (Rip Off Press, 1973 series) #1 - Comix (1973) - in The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics / The Best of Bijou Funnies (Quick Fox, 1981 series) #[nn] (1981)
- in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #5 - Happy Hippy Comix (July 1990)
- in R. Crumb's America (Last Gasp, 1995 series) #[nn] (October 1995)
-
- Keywords:
- adult
More: Deep Meaning Gommigs
Jeannie and her friends / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb
Content Information
- Characters:
- Jeannie; Savannah Foomo
- Reprints:
- Keywords:
- adult
Eggs Ackley in Eyeball Kicks
Eggs Ackley / comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb
Content Information
- Reprints:
- Keywords:
- adult
Smelly Old Cat
comic story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb
Content Information
- Genre:
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Reprints:
Why Oh Why Oh Why the Hell am I in Motor City?
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb [as R. "The Queer" Crumb] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb [as R. "The Queer" Crumb] (signed)
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb [as R. "The Queer" Crumb] (signed)
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb [as R. "The Queer" Crumb] (signed)
Content Information
- Reprints:
- in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #6 - On the Crest of a Wave (January 1991)
- in R. Crumb's America (Last Gasp, 1995 series) #[nn] (October 1995)
-
in The R. Crumb Handbook (MQ Publications, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005)
-
- Keywords:
- adult
Hi-Lites of Detroit
illustration / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb]
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb]
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb]
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb]
Content Information
- Genre:
- biography
- Characters:
- Robert Crumb
- Synopsis:
- Ten drawings of actual Detroit locations.
- Reprints:
- in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #6 - On the Crest of a Wave (January 1991)
- in R. Crumb's America (Last Gasp, 1995 series) #[nn] (October 1995)
-
- Keywords:
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Workers of the World Arise!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
- Inks:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)
Content Information
- Reprints:
- Keywords:
- adult
Indexer Notes
Sequence on back cover.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Join the world-family revolution or DIE!!!"]
Lenore Goldberg -
1.
Deep Meaning Comics
Savannah Foomo -
2.
The Desperate Character
-
3.
The Inimitable Boingy Baxter
Boingy Baxter -
4.
Lenore Goldberg and her Girl Commandos
Lenore Goldberg -
5.
More: Deep Meaning Gommigs
Jeannie and her friends -
6.
Eggs Ackley in Eyeball Kicks
Eggs Ackley -
7.
Smelly Old Cat
-
8.
Why Oh Why Oh Why the Hell am I in Motor City?
-
9.
Hi-Lites of Detroit
-
10.
Workers of the World Arise!
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Jerry Hillegas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Jerry Hillegas
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