Issue Details

Issue	#17
Published	1988
Cover Price	2.95 USD; 4.50 CAD
Pages	52
Editing	R. L. Crabb

Cover Details - "Busted!!"

Characters	Ronald Reagan
Genre	Crime
Pencils	R. L. Crabb
Inks	R. L. Crabb
Colors	Guy Colwell

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Editorial"

Script	R. L. Crabb
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Introductory text with indicia at bottom of page.

1 page credits "Rip Off Comix No. 17"

Letters	Typeset
Notes	Contents page.

3 page story "Double Enmity"

Genre	War
Script	Joshua Quagmire
Pencils	Joshua Quagmire
Inks	Joshua Quagmire [as F. Tubbins]
Letters	Joshua Quagmire

3 page story "Her Bloody Majesty's Pleasure"

Script	Dan O'Neill
Pencils	Dan O'Neill
Inks	Dan O'Neill
Letters	Dan O'Neill

5 page story "Amazons Episode Four"

Genre	Adult
Script	Frank Stack [as Foolbert Sturgeon[
Pencils	Frank Stack [as Foolbert Sturgeon]
Inks	Frank Stack [as Foolbert Sturgeon]
Letters	Frank Stack [as Foolbert Sturgeon]

2 page story "Badass Bust Stories"

Genre	Crime
Script	Pizz
Pencils	Pizz
Inks	Pizz
Letters	Pizz

7 page story "The Long Arm of the Law!"

Genre	Crime
Script	R. L. Crabb
Pencils	R. L. Crabb
Inks	R. L. Crabb
Letters	R. L. Crabb

2 page story "The Woods"

Genre	Adult
Script	Steve Lafler
Pencils	Steve Lafler
Inks	Steve Lafler
Letters	Steve Lafler

4 page Stickboy story "F.T.W."

Genre	Crime
Script	Dennis Worden
Pencils	Dennis Worden
Inks	Dennis Worden
Letters	Dennis Worden

3 page story How Cops "Pick Up" Girls

Genre	Crime
Script	Dori Seda
Pencils	Dori Seda
Inks	Dori Seda
Letters	Dori Seda

4 page story "My Covenant with the Hawk!"

Script	Larry Marder (story); Donald Simpson
Pencils	Donald Simpson
Inks	Donald Simpson
Letters	Donald Simpson

2 page story "The Night J. R. Spent in Jail"

Genre	Crime
Script	Jim R. Williams (see notes)
Pencils	Jim R. Williams
Inks	Jim R. Williams
Letters	Jim R. Williams
Notes	This not the same James R. Williams that was a cartoonist in the 1940s.

3 page story "Mean Cuisine"

Synopsis	An escaped prisoner turns into a weird monster from living in a swamp.
Genre	Adult; Satire
Script	Krystine Kryttre (signed)
Pencils	Krystine Kryttre (signed)
Inks	Krystine Kryttre (signed)
Letters	Krystine Kryttre (signed)
Notes	(Sequence added by Peter Croome, May 2007 for information about reprint.)
Reprinted	in Death Warmed Over (Cat-Head Comics, 1990 series) # [nn]

6 page story "The Summer of '87"

Genre	Adult
Script	Larry Welz
Pencils	Larry Welz
Inks	Larry Welz
Letters	Larry Welz

2 page story "Roust or You Play, You Pay"

Genre	Crime
Script	Mary Fleener
Pencils	Mary Fleener
Inks	Mary Fleener
Letters	Mary Fleener

1 page advertisement "Getcher Red Hot Back Issues!"

Letters	Typeset
Notes	Advertisement for back issues of Rip Off Comix from Rip Off Press, Inc. with small cover reproductions and contents synopsis of No.s 14, 15 & 16.

1 page Freak Brothers promo (ad from the publisher) The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in "The Idiots Abroad"

Pencils	Gilbert Shelton; Paul Mavrides
Inks	Gilbert Shelton; Paul Mavrides
Colors	Guy Colwell ?
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Advertisement/promo for The Idiots Abroad book available in January 1988.