(February 1979)
Apex Novelties,
1979 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1979-07-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Apex Novelties
- Brand
-
Apex Novelties
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- Color cover; Black and White interior
- Dimensions
- Standard Modern Age U. S.
- Paper Stock
- Newsprint
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- collected edition
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing. The filing notes the February 1979 indicia date.
1st printing has a $1.00 cover price. 2nd printing has a $1.25 cover price.
Consists primarily of material originally published in CoEvolution Quarterly, with the exception of "Aline and Bob Go To The Whole Earth Jam" which was rejected by that publication and appeared here for the first time.
This collection was reprinted with a new cover in Best Buy Comics (Last Gasp, 1988 series) #[nn]
This issue has variants:
1st printing has a $1.00 cover price. 2nd printing has a $1.25 cover price.
Consists primarily of material originally published in CoEvolution Quarterly, with the exception of "Aline and Bob Go To The Whole Earth Jam" which was rejected by that publication and appeared here for the first time.
This collection was reprinted with a new cover in Best Buy Comics (Last Gasp, 1988 series) #[nn]
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
![Cover Thumbnail for Best Buy Comics (1979 series) [Second Printing]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/245/w100/245662.jpg?5807680516496601891)
[Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't touch that dial, friend, because we've got a big treat comin' up right here so don't go 'way!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover with indicia information at bottom of page. Inspired by the Jerry Mander story of the same name. Does not include the title page drawn by Crumb in CoEvolution Quarterly.
R. Crumb's Modern Dance Workshop
Robert Crumb / comic story / 4 pages
- Characters
- Robert Crumb; Shoshana
- Synopsis
- Crumb tries to direct a female modern dance troupe.
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #14
-
in Epix (Epix, 1984 series) #7/1985 (juli 1985)
-
- Keywords
- adult
Space Day Symposium
Robert Crumb / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Robert Crumb; Governor of California; Big Wheel from NASA; Prominent Space Scientist; Rusty
- Synopsis
- Crumb goes to the Space Day Symposium in Los Angeles and comes away less than impressed.
- Reprints
The Goose and the Gander Were Talking One Night
The Goose and the Gander / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Characters
- The Goose; The Gander
- Synopsis
- The Goose can't shake the feeling that humanity is doomed.
- Reprints
The Nerds
The Nerds / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Characters
- The Nerds
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #17
-
in Endzeit Comics (Zweitausendeins, 1986 series) ([Juni] 1986)
-
- Keywords
- adult
Pass the Jug
Kansas City Frank Melrose / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Kansas City Frank Melrose; Georgie
- Reprints
And Hey, How About These Kids Today
comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- teen
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #21 (March 21, 1979)
-
Searching for the Ultimate Shopping Mall
Patricia Pig / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Patricia Pig
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #21 (March 21, 1979)
-
Morbid Preoccupations
Little Joe / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Little Joe; The Grim Reaper
- Synopsis
- Little Joe tries to talk the Grim Reaper into letting him go.
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #20 (Winter 1978)
-
A Purely Aesthetic Exersize (R. Crumb's Modern Dance Workshop)
Robert Crumb / comic story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Wendy; Bob [Robert Crumb]
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #20 (Winter 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Titled spelled as shown on the page.
Those Little Bears We Love So Much
comic story / 0.25 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #20 (Winter 1978)
-
- Keywords
- adult
The Final Solution
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- The President of the United States of America
- Synopsis
- The President of the U.S.A. feels overwhelmed to the point of being at the end of his rope. In order to save face, he decides to employ a drastic solution.
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #20 (Winter 1978)
-
in R. Crumb's America (Knockabout, 1994 series) (1994 ?)
-
R. Crumb's Mr. Nostalgia
Mr. Nostalgia / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Mr. Nostalgia; Zidem
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #20 (Winter 1978)
-
It's a Hup Ho World
comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #21 (March 21, 1979)
- in R. Crumb's America (Knockabout, 1994 series) (1994 ?)
-
Professor Wanowsky on Welfare (Bob's Plain-Talk Funnies)
comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Professor Wanowsky
- Synopsis
- A professor who reserves his disdain for liberals and the bourgeoisie.
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #21 (March 21, 1979)
- in R. Crumb's America (Knockabout, 1994 series) (1994 ?)
-
Kiwi
comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Reprints
Happy Hour Comics
comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Tony; Henry
- Reprints
Maybe We'll End Like This...
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Synopsis
- Aliens decide what to do with that last few humans remaining from a contaminated Planet Earth.
- Reprints
- from CoEvolution Quarterly (Point, 1974 series) #21 (March 21, 1979)
-
in Tegn (Tegn, 1986 series) #1/1989 (1989)
-
Aline 'n' Bob Go to The Whole Earth Jamboree
Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Inks
- Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Colors
- ? (back cover)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Genre
- humor; non-fiction
- Characters
- Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky; Young Giant-Girl; Wavy Gravy (cameo); J. Baldwin (cameo); Punchie
- Reprints
- in Best Buy Comics (Last Gasp, 1988 series) (1988)
- in The Complete Dirty Laundry Comics (Last Gasp, 1993 series) (June 1993)
- in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #12 - We're Livin' in the Lap of Luxury (March 1997)
- in Drawn Together (W. W. Norton, 2012 series) ([October] 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
Last page of story is on back cover of issue.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
[Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television]
-
2.
R. Crumb's Modern Dance Workshop
Robert Crumb -
3.
Space Day Symposium
Robert Crumb -
4.
The Goose and the Gander Were Talking One Night
The Goose and the Gander -
5.
The Nerds
The Nerds -
6.
Pass the Jug
Kansas City Frank Melrose -
7.
And Hey, How About These Kids Today
-
8.
Searching for the Ultimate Shopping Mall
Patricia Pig -
9.
Morbid Preoccupations
Little Joe -
10.
A Purely Aesthetic Exersize (R. Crumb's Modern Dance Workshop)
Robert Crumb -
11.
Those Little Bears We Love So Much
-
12.
The Final Solution
-
13.
R. Crumb's Mr. Nostalgia
Mr. Nostalgia -
14.
It's a Hup Ho World
-
15.
Professor Wanowsky on Welfare (Bob's Plain-Talk Funnies)
-
16.
Kiwi
-
17.
Happy Hour Comics
-
18.
Maybe We'll End Like This...
-
19.
Aline 'n' Bob Go to The Whole Earth Jamboree
Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- R. S. Martin
- Steven Samuels
- Ramon Schenk
- Mark Semich
- Jim Van Dore
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