DOPIN DAN
dopin dan
Last Gasp 1972-81
While illicit drug use may have pervaded wars in the past, the Vietnam War was the first to be shrouded in a continuous, thick haze of pot smoke. Which led Ted Richards to create Dopin’ Dan, perhaps the most endearing male character in underground comic book history. Richards, whose father was a WWII paratrooper, conveyed the original story of Dopin’ Dan in a trilogy of comic books that came out in 1972 and ’73.