Seven clothbound volumes in illustrated slipcase, comprising vols. I-IV (Zap issues 0-16); vol. V (The Zap Story); a portfolio of color plates reprinting the covers on archival paper (limited to 2750); and a slim portfolio of five prints signed and numbered by R. Crumb, Paul Mavrides, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson (each limited to 250). First Edition. Excellent condition, as-new.
Fantagraphics says: "Robert Crumb kicked off the underground comics movement with his classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a dream team of the wildest, most technically skilled and stylistically diverse cartoonists to come out of the countercultural scene. They were a ragtag bunch of fascinating, wide-ranging personalities, from biker-gang member Spain Rodriguez to Christian surfer Rick Griffin, but somehow they all came together to produce a fruitful, decades-long collaboration: a mind-blowing anthology of abstract hallucination, searing social satire, and shocking sexual excess..."
Even Dr. Fredric Wertham was a Zap fan, of sorts: "Zap Comics [sic] ...represent a reaction - or rather an overreaction - to the above-ground comic books and to our mass media in general. Such overreaction is all too understandable in a society like the one in which we live at present". -Dr. Wertham, The World of Fanzines. [Southern Illinois University Press: 1973].
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