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Issue: (Not Only) The Best of Wonder Wart-Hog #2
Publication Date: January 1975
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues (3 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagRip Off Press
Brand: Rip Off Press
Indicia Publisher: Rip Off Press, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The issue is actually labelled volume II rather than issue 2 on the cover and in the indicia. This was published in 1975, while Print Mint had published issue 3 in 1973. The bottom of each page also features cartoons drawn by Shelton in the early 1960s.

Thanks for Vance Bass and his "Hog of Steel" archive for some of the reprint credit information.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Colorist(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Character(s): Wonder Wart-Hog
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUnderground Classics #5 published January 1987
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Bacchanal (March 1962)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This reprints what was a color cover in black and white.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Killeen
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Philbert Desenex (Wonder Wart-Hog); Melody Lane; Lady; Harry
First Line: High above the busy streets of the big city in one of the editorial offices of...
Synopsis: Wonder Wart-Hog deals with some bank robbers.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Bacchanal (March 1962)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: This is the first Wonder Wart-Hog story. From January 1962. In these early stories Desanex's name was spelled differently.
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Wonder Wart Hog Meets Super-Fool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Philbert Desenex (Wonder Wart-Hog); Meolody Lane; Super-Fool
First Line: High above the city in the office of a great megatropolitan newspaper…
Synopsis: Wonder Wart-Hog deals with Super-Fool
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Wonder Wart-Hog Goes A-Freedom-Riding!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Philbert Desenex (Wonder Wart-Hog); "Cattle Prod" Collins
First Line: Gee, Fellas!
Synopsis: Philbert Desenex is sent to the deep south.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagHelp! #25 published July 1965
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Wonder Wart-Hog Encounters Super Granny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Philbert Desenex (Wonder Wart-Hog); Super Granny
First Line: Eek! Eek!
Synopsis: Philbert gets a vacation.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagHelp! #24 published May 1965
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Wonder Wart-Hog and the Return of the Masked Meanie!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Philbert Desenex (Wonder Wart-Hog); The Masked Meanie; Sparrow
First Line: When I press this secret button on the control panel of my meaniemobile…
Synopsis: After three years, the Masked Meanie escapes and decides to blow-up the Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRip Off Comix #22 published January 1989
as Wonder Wart-Hog and the Merciless, Menacing, Masked Meanie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Issue: FlagHelp! #26 published September 1965
From Issue: FlagWonder Wart-Hog #1 published January 1967
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Wonder Wart-Hog and the Merciless, Menacing, Masked Meanie!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Tony Bell ?
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Wonder Wart-Hog; The Masked Meanie
First Line: Gasp! It's the Masked Meanie!!
Synopsis: The Masked Meanie and Wonder Wart-Hog have a race.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRip Off Comix #22 published January 1989
as Wonder Wart-Hog and the Merciless, Menacing, Masked Meanie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Issue: FlagDrag Cartoons #29 published July 1966
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Adventures of Philbert Desenex

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Philbert Desenex
First Line: (Yawn! Smack!) Ah, Sunday!
Synopsis: Philbert has a cockroach problem and reads the funnies.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagWonder Wart-Hog #2 published January 1967
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Wonder Wart-Hog Meets the Merangsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Penciller(s): Gilbert Shelton
Inker(s): Gilbert Shelton
Letterer(s): Gilbert Shelton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Philbert Desenex (Wonder Wart-Hog); Al "Pieface" Capoon
First Line: The scene: Muthalode City, in the Roaring Twenties…
Synopsis: Al Capoon is looking to take over Muthalode in the roaring twenties.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagHelp! #22 published January 1965
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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