GRIM WIT #1, 1ST PRINTING, 1972, RICHARD CORBEN, RIP OFF PRESS, UNDERGROUND COM for Sale

GRIM WIT #1, 1ST PRINTING, 1972, RICHARD CORBEN, RIP OFF PRESS, UNDERGROUND COM For Sale

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GRIM WIT #1, 1ST PRINTING, 1972, RICHARD CORBEN, RIP OFF PRESS, UNDERGROUND COM:
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Grim Wit #1, 1st Printing, 1972, RichardCorben, Rip Off Press, Underground Comic NM Like NEW

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Richard Corben hasenjoyed a long and successful career as a comic illustrator, but his successdid not come quickly or easily. He was nearly thirty years old before he waspublished in small-circulation publications and eventually by underground comicpublishers. Before that, Corben worked in construction with his father and formany years at Calvin Studios, a Kansas City commercial animation company. Hisfirst published work appeared in the fanzine Voice of Comicdom in 1968. In1970, he had finally saved enough money to self-publish three sci-fi stories inthe first issue of Fantagor, which started as a magazine-size fanzine. Heexpected great success, but the book sold poorly through mail order.

Corben didn't appear tobe particularly interested in the underground comic revolution and never gotthe bug to move out to the West Coast and join the fray. But Gary Arlington,founder of the legendary San Francisco Comic Book Company, contacted Corben afterseeing his work and encouraged him to get together with some undergroundpublishers. Corben ended up contributing to several undergrounds before LastGasp reprinted Fantagor #1 in comic book form at the end of 1971, which soldvery well. From 1970 through 1972, Corben produced a lot of content for severalother underground comic books and contributed single stories to anthologieslike Slow Death and Skull.

The two issues of GrimWit came along in 1972 and '73, at the tail end of Corben's prodigious work inunderground comic titles. Though he later contributed a pair of great coversfor Bizarre Sex, most of his subsequent work appeared in Warren Publishing'shorror magazines; Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, and later in the landmarkanthologies Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal. In the '80s and early '90s, Corbenself-published several of his greatest works (both old and new) under hisFantagor Press insignia, including Children of Fire, Den and Densaga, From thePit, Horror in the Dark, Mutant World and Tales of the Black Diamond.

Grim Wit #1 featurestwo Corben classics: "The Beast of Wolfton" and"Necromancer," the former being a 25-page tale of werewolf-themedhorror. Grim Wit #2 is best known for the first appearance of Corben's mostfamous character, Den, which he created in 1968 for his award-winning,self-produced animated short called "Neverwhere."

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