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ZAP COMIX #1, PLYMELL 1st Printing * CGC 7.0
ZAP COMIX #1, PLYMELL 1st Printing * CGC 7.0
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Title: ZAP COMIX No. 1 [CHARLES PLYMELL 1st Printing]
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Publisher:Apex Novelties
Date Published: November, 1967
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CGC certified: Fine/VF (7.0). Off-white to white pages. Robert Crumb story, cover and art. Charles Plymell edition. First printing with correct issue points as noted in Jay Kennedy's Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide: "Has a $.25 cover price and says 'Printed by Charles Plymell' on the back cover."



The Action Comics #1 of the underground.



"Don Donohue... got all jazzed about putting out Zap Comix. As I recall, he traded his hi-fi to this small-time printer, Charles Plymell, in exchange for printing the first issue. Plymell, an older hipster from Wichita, owned a small press., a Multi-Lith 1250. Soon after that Donohue bought the press and learned how to run it himself. Many of the early underground comics were printed by him on that thing.... We folded and stapled all 5,000 copies [of Zap #1] ourselves, and took them out to sell on the streets. -R. Crumb, The Complete Crumb Comics vol. 4 [Fantagraphics: 1989]. Note that while Crumb specifies a print run of 5000 copies, Plymell gives the print run as 1500.



CGC census: Eight copies graded 7.0. Comparable CGC sales: Three 7.0 sales in the past four years, results from $1659 to $2211.


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ZAP COMIX #1, PLYMELL 1st Printing * CGC 7.0

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