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The San Francisco Comic Book Company logo. In 1968, Arlington was down on his luck, penniless and essentially homeless. The closure of his parents' house forced him to sell his extensive personal comics collection, which included many rare comics from the era's Golden Age as well as a trove of EC Comics. [1]
The underground comix movement was based in San Francisco and a number of distributors originated in the Bay Area, including the Print Mint (beginning c. 1969), the already mentioned comic book store San Francisco Comic Book Company (which doubled as a publisher, beginning c. 1970), Bud Plant Inc. (1970), Last Gasp (1970), Keith Green ...
San Francisco Comic Book was an underground comix anthology published between 1970 and 1983. Conceived of and edited by Gary Arlington, the anthology highlighted the work of many of San Francisco's top underground talents, including Bill Griffith, Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Rory Hayes, Willy Murphy, Jim Osborne, Trina Robbins, and Spain Rodriguez.
Real Pulp Comics (2 issues, 1971–1973) — anthology; issue #1 featured first Zippy the Pinhead strip (by Bill Griffith) Rubber Duck Tales (2 issues, 1971–1972) — Rob Lawso and Michael J. San Francisco Comic Book (1970–1973), #2-4 — anthology title at first published with the San Francisco Comic Book Company; later picked up by Last Gasp
The permanent collection features some 7,000 pieces as of 2015, including original animation cels, comic book pages and sculptures. [2] Until September 2015, the museum was located in the Yerba Buena Gardens cultural district of San Francisco, in the South of Market neighborhood.
Last Gasp is a San Francisco–based [5] book publisher with a lowbrow art and counterculture focus. [6] Owned and operated by Ron Turner, for most of its existence Last Gasp was a publisher, distributor, and wholesaler of underground comix [7] and books of all types.