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Last Gasp (1970-77)
On April 15, 1970 Ron Turner and Last Gasp published the company’s first comic book; the ironically titled Slow Death. Turner and the Last Gasp website still hold to the claim that the publishing date was the first Earth Day, but every documentation I’ve seen states that April 22, 1970 was the first official Earth Day (which kind of set the tone of Slow Death’s grasp of actual facts, since it presented itself as more than a comic book). In any case, Slow Death would turn out to be the most successful series Last Gasp published in the ’70s, running 11 issues; the first 10 were published from 1970-79 and the 11th was published 12+ years later in 1992.
Last Gasp (1972-81)
Unlike the purely anti-drug comic book undergrounds from the 1970s (e.g., Dope Comix), Larry Todd’s Dr. Atomic celebrates the joys and adventures associated with the magical herb of marijuana. Along the way, we are challenged to comprehend the myriad scientific inventions and concepts offered by Dr. Atomic throughout this series. Everything is presented with a wry sense of humor with splashes of slapstick comedy and inventive sight gags.
Last Gasp (1967-88)
Zap Comix was an underground comix series which was originally part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books had been printed prior to this, Zap became the model for the “comix” movement that snowballed after its release. The title itself published 17 issues over a period of 46 years. The first 15, from the classic period, are posted here.