CAPT GUTS
capt guts
Rip-Off Press 1969-71
This is Larry Welz’s first one-man comic book (at the age of 21), and it is a marvelously entertaining serial. The three issues feature Fillmore Grinchbottom, who is little more than a pudgy everyman until he drinks his magic potion (beer), which transforms him into Captain Guts, the “raging avenger of the establishment.” The serial progresses from Captain Guts taking on hippie revolutionaries to a fierce battle with a sexually charged black woman and finally to a cosmic battle with Wyatt Winghead and his dope smugglers.