Zip comic books issue 1

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Anarchy in Absurdistan. Stories, art and cover by Bill Griffith. Reprints of the daily strip featuring Griffiths existentialist hero, Zippy the Pinhead, including a handful of Sunday strips in full color, plus a new Zippy story, The Pin Within. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. 48 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $4.95.

Edited by Abner Sundell. Cover art by Charles Biro. Untitled story starring Steel Sterling, The Man of Steel, script by Abner Sundell, art by Charles Biro; John Sterling completes the chemical formula which will completely protect him from the underworld's bullets, unlike his murdered father who was killed by a group of ruthless gangsters; John bathes himself in the formula, which has been poured into a cauldron of molten steel......dives in, and emerges as a man with the resistance, the magnetism and the strength of steel. Untitled story starring The Scarlet Avenger, Gang Buster, script by Harry Shorten, art by Irv Novick; Jim Kendall has devoted himself to wiping out gangland since the death of his wife and child while flying in a hijacked plane, which crashed, and in which all were killed except Jim; In the accident, his face muscles were paralyzed and Jim became the man who never smiled; Kendall has a giant scientific brain, and uses that science to the aid of his crusade. Untitled story, art by Frank Volp; The Cattleman's Association has sent Nevada Jones to help Irene Cox prevent her herd being stolen by rustlers. Untitled Kalthar, The Giant Man, King of the Jungle story, script by Harry Shorten, art by Lin Streeter. "The Devil's Flying Twins," art by Ed Smalle, Jr.; The Shane twins are rich Americans who join the British Air Force to continue a feud with the German sportsman, Herr Schultz. "You Can't Win!", art by Mort Meskin; Executions are likely to be drably gruesome affairs even to the most hardened newspapermen. "The Pirates of Ho Tsin," script by Abner Sundell, art by Mort Meskin; Captain Valor resigns his commission in the U.S. Marine Corps to seek adventure, and, aided by Ronnie and Angie, heads to China to battle the evil Ho Tsin. "The Eye of Oglu," script by Abner Sundell, art by Edd Ashe; A young girl's father is missing after a series of weird happenings; She suspects foul play and contacts Dudley for help; He dons a purple costume with yellow cape and ventures out to help as Mr. Satan, international detective and soldier of fortune. "The Ritania-Hundaria War," script by Joe Blair, art by Elmer Wexler; The king of Ritania begs Zambini to help him win the war against Hundania; Hundanian spies place a huge and deadly cobra, whose bite means death, in Zambini's bedroom. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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1st printing. Story Art and Cover by Bill Griffith. Collects comic strips originally appearing in the Berkeley Barb from January 9, 1976 to June 10th 1977. 5-in. x 8-in., 52 pages, Red and Black. NOTE: 1st Printings of this issue have a red and black interior. 2nd Printings have a black and white interior. Cover price $0.95.

2nd Printing. Story Art and Cover by Bill Griffith. Collects comic strips originally appearing in the Berkeley Barb from January 9, 1976 to June 10th 1977. 5-in. x 8-in., 52 pages, B&W. NOTE: 1st Printings of this issue have a red and black interior. 2nd Printings have a black and white interior. Cover price $0.95.

1st printing.

By Bill Griffith.

Zippy the Pinhead is a pop culture icon.

The surrealist-leaning character is one of the most recognizable figures on the newspaper pages, seen by tens of millions of people a day.

Syndicated by King Features since 1986, Zippy is read in hundreds of daily newspapers across the country, while the Pinhead's trademark non-sequitur, "Are we having fun yet?," has become so often repeated it's in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. His likeness has been graffitied on the Berlin Wall and aped for Saturday Night Live's classic "Conehead" sketches. In this new, almost square-shaped Zippy collection, Zippy visits his doppelganger atop the Leaning Tower of Pizza, talks Republicanism with several symbolic elephants, imagines he's in a Deputy Dawg cartoon and deconstructs King Kong - and that's just between breakfast and lunch.

He also meets Arnold Stang (the voice of "Top Cat"), stars in a 1940s Film Noir, hitch-hikes to Los Angeles to break into the television industry (with his mini-series adaptation of Allen Ginsburg's "Howl") and worships at the World's Largest Laundromat just outside Chicago.

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 144 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $18.95.

1st printing. Story and Art by Bill Griffith. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., B&W. Cover price $7.95.

1st printing. Written by Annie Auerbach. Art and cover by Laura Catrinella. Young readers will love the interactive lift-the-flap elements as they join Mr. ZIP for one windy adventure! Mr. ZIP and his trusty sidekick B. Franklin start their day in the mail room. Then it's time to begin the mail route. We accompany Mr. ZIP as he makes his deliveries. Suddenly a huge gust of wind blows the letters away. Mr. ZIP and Franklin have to track them down. Will they be able to find every last letter - and deliver them all before the end of the day? Hardcover, 8-in. x 7-in., 20 pages, full color. Cover price $10.99.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Collection of Zippy the Pinhead comic strips. Offer's a satiric look at art, modern music, carnivals, politics, work, public scandals, comic strips, and modern life. Softcover, 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

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1st printing. Written by Annie Auerbach. Art and cover by Elisa Patrissi. Hardworking Mr. ZIP and B. Franklin have to deliver the mail to all sorts of places. Come along on the journey as the duo delivers mail to cities, an airport, a construction site, a movie set, and more. Along the way, readers can search for 145 different things to spot. Hardcover, 32 pages, full color. Cover price $16.99.

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Add to cart PR 0.5 $149.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Spine is sewn, near full length spine split. Heavy cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Ruben Moreira. Stories and art by Ruben Moreira, Al Plastino and Art Pinajian. 1940s Chesler heroes Rocketman and Rocketgirl return in new guises as Zip-Jet and Pat. "Tech" Carson and his "girl Friday" Pat use their "jet powers" against the goblin-like Dr. Keats, who is performing mind-control experiments on the patients in his asylum. Zip-Jet invents the helicopter a few years early, but gangster Killer Craci wants the invention for himself. Zip-Jet and Pat face a vengeful killer who rigs the jury and beats a murder rap. Fantastic Brain Destroyers; Death Stalks The Show; Sinister Seizure; Have You Heard?; Gag Bag; The Cryptic Cache. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Tom Waltz (w); Casey Maloney (a); Adriano Loyola (c) International superstar Gene Simmons creates his own version of the classic 'stranger in a strange land' with his latest comic book, Zipper! After a daring escape from his other-dimensional home, the Nether Ether, denizen Xeng Ral finds himself on planet Earth-lost, alone, curious and confused. Protected only by a specially equipped exo-suit, Xeng Ral sets out to explore his new world, finding both allies and enemies, all the while desperately evading those who would hunt him down from the Nether Ether. Written by Tom Waltz, with art by Casey Maloney (Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between). Cover price $3.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Seen by tens of millions of readers every day, Bill Griffith's Zippy is a pop-culture icon. The Zippy Annual #1 collects a huge selection of Griffith's strips from 1998 and 1999 to guide us all into the 21st Century. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

By Bill Griffith.

"Zippy the Pinhead's 29 Day Guide to Random Activities and Arbitrary Donuts" is not a collection of underground comix or syndicated strips, but an all-original trip on the Freeway of Fun featuring Zippy, Griffy, Half-Life, and the rest of gang. This highly-structured explosion of madness, satire and epic adventure takes all of Griffith's favorite pop culture themes — Ernie Bushmiller, junk food, commercial "cute," beatniks, cubism, modern Japan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Laundromats, '70s fashion, and Jack Palance — to their outer limits.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 128 pages, B&W.

Cover price $12.95.

Volume 1 - 1st Printing. Written by Saki Okuse. Art and Cover by Aki Shimizu. Three centuries ago, a vampire named Migiri was running a reign of terror across Japan, when a hero named Naonosuke cut off his head and sent him to eternal rest...until now. With the help of his right hand man Kuraha, Migiri has been brought back to life and granted a sacrifice in the form of the beautiful young Kikuri. The only thing standing in the way of Migiri's restoration is Yusuke Himukai, who is sworn to protect Kikuri! Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 224 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. Cover price $9.99.

1st printing.

In Zippy's latest collection of daily and color strips (with additional pages!), the tour of "Dingburg" continues; we drop in on dozens of Dingburgers and observe them in their natural habitat. The city "inhabited entirely by pinheads" can be seen as a metaphor for the world we live in today - or not. In any event, we watch as Zippy and his fellow Dingburg residents hunt and bag "Speedy Alka Seltzer," hear voices in their refrigerators, become addicted to Riboflavin, enjoy fondling newsprint, believe that "wahoo bark" attracts the opposite sex, and worship Joan Rivers.

There's also the extended series in which Zippy has a long (and donut-based) conversation with God and another in which we meet a pinhead poet who bears a striking resemblance to Charles Bukowski.

Are we having fun yet?

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 204 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Comprising a full two and a half years' worth of dailies and full-color Sundays, The Dingburg Diaries is the third Zippy book featuring tales of "Dingburg, the City Inhabited Entirely by Pinheads"-Zippy's home town. There's even a long series of "Historical Dingburg" strips, chronicling the pinhead population through the years, from 1840, when Dingburg's "Town Fool" accidentally invented disco, to 1958 when Dingburg Beatniks flourished in the town's Bohemian neighborhood. Like, Yowl, man. God also has his own chapter (and verse). In the guise of a clip art "authority figure," he dispenses unwanted advice and conditional love upon the citizens of Dingburg. His tendency to cross-dress reaches new heights when he appears in a performance of "Swine Lake," wearing a tutu. Sacrilegious, yet sensitive. There are large chunks of Mr. The Toad, Zerbina, Little Zippy and the rest of Griffith's cast of characters throughout this expanded collection. Published in a larger 8" by 10" format, The Dingburg Diaries also features a big color section, showcasing Griffith's inventive palette. There are parodies of the paintings of Edward Hopper and Film Noir, and "Griffy's Top Ten List On Comics and Their Creation" a semi-serious mini-tutorial on everything (well, ten things) he's learned in over forty years at the drawing board. Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 224 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.99.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Introduction by R. Crumb. 43 pages of full-length Zippy Stories; 16 pages of Zippy Calendar art; and 564 new Zippy Daily Strips! Softcover, 8 1/2-in., 11-in., 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Written by Erik W. Hendrix. Art by Yannis Roumboulias and Casey Maloney. Cover by Jim Balent. Arcana Comics and Simmons Comics Group Presents Zipper Vs Dominatrix: The Slave Trade, collecting the three exciting chapters in one volume. Zipper and Dominatrix, two creations straight out of the mind of Gene Simmons, get wrapped in a world of sex slaves and conspiracy. Can the alien and the T&A agent work together long enough to save innocent lives? Softcover, 84 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Bill Griffith. What? Zippy Hijacked by marauding speech balloon appropriators? This shocking turn of events and more is chronicled in the latest collection of the Zippy the Pinhead daily comic strips, Zippy: Walk a Mile in My Muu-Muu. In the aforementioned storyline, all of the strip's dialogue is usurped by balloons taken directly from old comics like "Beach Blanket Bingo," "Rusty Riley," "UFO Comics," "Mutt and Jeff," and "Steve Roper." Will Zippy get his voice back? And will he remember being abducted from a Kansas cow-lot by little gray aliens? Softcover, 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $18.95.

From the mind of the iconic Gene Simmons! Return to the world of Zipper - an alien trapped on Earth fights his way home to Etheria. In his absence, he has become a symbol of hope for a group of freedom fighters, fleeing the global Collective. Is Zipper ready to play savior to these dissidents against the tyrannical Old Ones and threats from outside their very universe? His life depends on it. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing. Collects Zipper Cosmic Jungle (2017 Arcana) #1-3.

Written by Gene Simmons and Erik W. Hendrix. Art and cover by Alex Aguilar.

Gene Simmons welcomes you back to the world of Etheria, deep within the Nether Ether.

Zipper has become a symbol of hope for those seeking freedom from the tyrannical Old Ones, who will stop at nothing to get their tendrils on him. Is he ready to play savior to these dissidents against the Old Ones even as the destruction of Etheria could be just a portal away?

Softcover, 88 pages, full color.

Cover price $14.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Zipper (2007 IDW) #1-6. Created by Gene Simmons. Written by Tom Waltz. Art and cover by Casey Maloney. International superstar Gene Simmons creates his own version of the classic "stranger in a strange land" in this first collection of his all-new science fiction title, Zipper. After a daring escape from his other-dimensional home, the Nether Ether, denizen Xeng Ral finds himself on planet Earth-lost, alone, curious and confused. Protected only by a specially equipped exo-suit, Xeng Ral sets out to explore his new world, finding both allies and enemies, all the while desperately evading those who would hunt him down from the Nether Ether. Written by Tom Waltz, with art by Casey Maloney (Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between). Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

1st Printing - Written and illustrated by Bill Griffith. Collects various Zippy the Pinhead comic strips with some added exclusively for this release. Softcover, 8" x 5", horizontal format, B&W. Cover price $4.95.

2nd or later printing - Written and illustrated by Bill Griffith. Collects various Zippy the Pinhead comic strips with some added exclusively for this release. Softcover, 8" x 5", horizontal format, B&W. Cover price $4.95.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Collection of Zippy the Pinhead comic strips. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8-in. x 5-in., 96 pages, full color. Cover price $5.95.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Collection of Zippy the Pinhead comic strips. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8-in. x 5-in., 96 pages, full color. Cover price $5.95.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Introduction by B. Kliban. Featuring Zippy the Pinhead in his very first collection! Witness the new origin of Zippy! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $7.95.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Introduction by B. Kliban. Featuring Zippy the Pinhead in his very first collection! Witness the new origin of Zippy! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

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2nd and later printings. By Bill Griffith. Introduction by B. Kliban. Featuring Zippy the Pinhead in his very first collection! Witness the new origin of Zippy! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 14-in. x 8-in., 112 pages, full color. Cover price $39.95.

Limited signed and numbered Edition - 1st printing. By Bill Griffith. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 14-in. x 8-in., 112 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 2,000 copies. Cover price $39.95.

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1st printing. Written by Leila Boukarim. Art and cover by Alex Lopez. Zips and Eeloo are two aliens who have read a bunch of books about humans and watched a LOT of human TV. You could DEFINITELY say they are experts at all things human. They even have EXPERTS IN ALL THINGS HUMAN CERTIFICATES! And in all of the stories, Zips and Eeloo have learned that humans love friends, so now they are going to make a friend, too. But "making friends" is harder than it seems ... nowhere in any of the books have Zips and Eeloo learned how to make one, so they're going to try with milk jugs, tennis balls, and anything else they can find. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 80 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $11.99.

1st printing. Written by Leila Boukarim. Art and cover by Alex Lopez. Zips and Eeloo are two aliens who think they are experts in all things human, like making hummus! But they aren't exactly the experts they claim to be. Will Zips and Eeloo have hummus after all, or just one big, mushy mess? In this hilarious and colorful graphic novel, readers will learn how to make hummus alongside the two alien friends. They'll clap and cheer as Zips and Eeloo look for a bowl (but get it confused with a bowling ball!), need to go to the grocery store for lemons, and eventually, make some super yummy hummus. This full-color graphic novel also includes a recipe for hummus in the back! Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 80 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $11.99.