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Zap Comix 0 |
| Item: |
Zap Comix 0 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0111440009
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Owner Comments
UNTRIMMED COPY! Cover tells for a 1st print include a 35c price; a small hairline in the "Z" (retouched for all subsequent printings) and a small yellow block in the "I'll" on the back cover. All three will indicate the interior pages are numbered, and cumulatively indicate the "Donahue edition" or 1st printing.
Untrimmed copies showing a distinct white border around the edge are decidedly more scarce.
CGC Census 2/16- 59 total copies graded; three in 7.5, 35 higher
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| Slot: |
Zap Comix 1 |
| Item: |
Zap Comix 1 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0939041002
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Owner Comments
Printed by Beat poet Charles Plymell, this copy was salvaged from the Mowry's Opera House fire.
Apex Novelties’ Don Donahue rented loft-space in the old opera house to rock bands, nude dancers, and even Rip Off Press (Kennedy 1982). The precise date of the fire is still a point of contention, but Donahue recalls that it was during the printing of Cunt Comics (c. 1969) that the loft caught fire, a “spectacular blaze” that burned the roof off (Kennedy 1982) and consumed approx. 500 copies of Zap Comix #1 (1st) stored on-site.
The “Apex Novelties Pedigree Collection” consists of 12 partially burned copies of Zap Comix #1 (1st) personally salvaged from the Mowry’s Opera House fire by Donahue. The cache of Mowry-salvaged Plymells were re-located by Donahue in Nov. 2006 following personal communications with myself. Of the 12 discovered, 11 were sold to Michael Carbonaro (Neatstuff Collectibles LLC) around April 2007, with the best copy sold to me. The copies were first offered for sale to the public at San Diego Comic Con 2007, and they range from copies that are little more than charred remains, to those that exhibit only tell-tale water damage & scorching at the edges.
Each “Apex Novelties Pedigree Collection” Zap Comix #1 (1st) includes a signed COA that includes a brief printing history, description of the fire, and the signatures of both Donahue and Fogel’s Underground Price Guide author Dan Fogel.
Cover tells for a first printing includes the 25c cover price and "printed by Charles Plymell: on the back cover. A 2nd print would be 35c and say "printed by Don Donahue."
CGC Census 2/16- 96 total copies graded; one in 2.5, 88 higher
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Zap Comix 2 Head First Miscut |
| Item: |
Zap Comix 2 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0951469002
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Owner Comments
“Head First Miscut”; there are no cover tells for a true 1st print. The miscut of the 1-page "Head First" story by S. Clay Wilson will always indicate the heavier cover stock (~70lb) that denotes a 1st print.
CGC Census 2/16- 26 total copies graded; two in 6.5, 18 higher
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| Slot: |
Zap Comix 2 Second Printing |
| Item: |
Zap Comix 2 |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1018312011
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Owner Comments
OWW; 2nd print (Moondog copy)
CGC Census 2/16- 33 total copies graded; five in 9.6, four higher
TIED 2nd HIGHEST GRADED
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| Slot: |
Zap Comix 4 Second Printing |
| Item: |
Zap Comix 4 |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1018312012
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Owner Comments
OWW; 4th print (Moondog copy)
CGC Census 2/16- 16 total copies graded; one in 7.0, 10 higher
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