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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.