Gay Comics comic books issue 1

Issue 1. First Printing. September 1980. 6.75" x 9.75". 32 pages. Black and white. Adult. Cover price $1.25.

Issue 1. Second Printing. 1980. 6.75" x 9.75". 32 pages. Black and white. Adult. Cover price $1.50.

Untitled Tessie the Typist story; Tessie goes to Washington and gets a government job to help out the war effort. "Case of the Purloined Pearls!" starring the Squat Car Squad; Sarge and Rook are sent to Coney Island to capture the Funster. Untitled story; Half Chief Poke-In-Nose is sent out to hunt food before the winter snow falls. "The Strange Case of the Bananna Brain" starring Eustace Hayseed and Choo Choo; Eustace has developed a skill at finding oil. "They're Nautical, But Nice!"; Star and Tar sneak off the ship to go dancing with girls. "Photo Finish" text story by Helen King. "Case in the Suit Case"; Snoopy and Dr. Nutzy investigate a series of robberies at a hotel. Untitled Mopey of the Merchant Marine story; While lost at sea, Mopey fires off some sky rockets. "The Puny Person With the Potent Paws," script and art by Basil Wolverton; Powerhouse Pepper goes after a couple of swindlers who cheated him and others in a land deal. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing. From confessional, personal accounts to erotic flights of fancy to undersea identity politics, this collection of comics invites the reader to step outside the categories and explore the wild and wonderful uncharted territory between "gay" and "straight." Edited by Charles "Zan" Christensen, with a foreword by sexologist Dr. Carol Queen. Featuring comics and illustrations by Adam Pruett, Agnes Czaja, Alex Dahm, Amy T. Falcone, Ashley Cook & Caroline Hobbs, Bill Roundy, Ellen Forney, Erika Moen, Jason A. Quest, Jason Thompson, John Lustig, Jon Macy, Josh Trujillo & Dave Valeza, Kate Leth, Kevin Boze, Leanne Franson, Leia Weathington, Lena H. Chandhok, Margreet de Heer, MariNaomi, Maurice Vellekoop, Melaina, Nick Leonard, Powflip, Randall Kirby, Roberta Gregory, Sam Orchard, Sam Saturday, Stasia Burrington, Steve Orlando, Tania Walker, and Tara Madison Avery & Mike Sullivan. Softcover, 216 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

1st printing.

By The Nib. Edited by Matt Bors, Matt Lubchansky, Sarah Mirk, and Eleri Harris. Introduction by Matt Lubchansky.

The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears apart reality. These are the just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib.

Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride. Brimming with resilience, inspiration, and humor, an incredible lineup of top indie cartoonists takes you from the American Revolution through Stonewall to today's fights for equality and representation.

Featuring more than 30 cartoonists including Hazel Newlevant, Joey Alison Sayers, Maia Kobabe, Matt Lubchansky, Breena Nuñez, Sasha Velour, Shing Yin Khor, Levi Hastings, Mady G, Bianca Xunise, Kazimir Lee, and many, many more!

Softcover, 256 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Gay Comics #1 is a real oddity, a 7c cover-priced comic published in 1955 by Modern Store Publications, 45 West 45th Street, NY, NY. May have been distributed at this unique retail price, but likely also distributed by retailers as a giveaway. Three stories in this issue: Teepee Tim, the Indian Boy, Witch Hazel (not the one in Little Lulu!), Hare-Brained Tortoise. 36-pages, full color, slick cover with standard newsprint interior, 5-1/8-in. x 7-in., 7c cover price, Comics Code approved. Contains numerous ads for child-related national brands such as U.S. Keds shoes, Wheaties, Tootsie Roll, Bazooka Bubble Gum, Baby Ruth Candy, and Nabisco Wheat Honeys, to name a few. NOTE: The three titles are know to have been produced in this series are: Gay Comics #1, Pop Comics #1 and Whee Comics #1. Others may have been produced although we think it unlikely. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $12.00

Written by Thomas Waugh; Gay male representation of sexuality has a long history of varied visibility and acceptance, but the 100 or so years of queer life before Stonewall were a period of unprecedented self-identification as well as renewed pressure to hide and suppress the erotic imagery of gay men in western culture. Out/Lines features a resurrection of erotic gay images, once virtually buried and invisible, that circulated in clandestine communities whose sexualized visibility was a potentially devastating risk—a wealth of approximately 200 previously unpublished "obscene" images from the queer pre-Stonewall underground. Drawn mainly from American, German, Italian, and French sources, these images will both broaden and tantalize our view of queer culture with a surprising range of historical styles and motifs. 304pgs b&w 8" x 10" Cover price $19.95.