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Issue: Slow Death #5
Publication Date: April 1973
 
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Title:
Variant: 1st Printing, 50¢ Cover Price
Rating: Adults Only
Publisher: FlagLast Gasp
Brand: Last GaspView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
On Sale Date: 04/1973
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ron Turner
Disclose Notes: Underground Comix are known for using different prices, covers (art or color variations) and/or interior content to distinguish different printings.
1st print April 1973 has 0.50 USD cover price. 1st printing 20,000 copies.
2nd print has 0.75 USD cover price.
3rd print has 1.00 USD cover price.
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Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers, Black and white interiors
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Rand Holmes
Rand Holmes (signed)
Rand Holmes (signed)
Rand Holmes
Rand Holmes ?
Subject Matter
adult, horror
Greetings citizens of Earth...from the Intergalactic Federation of Suns...
Reprinting
FlagU-Comix Sonderband #7 published January 1974
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagAnthology of Slow Death #[nn] published June 1975
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Slow Death 5

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dave Sheridan
Dave Sheridan (signed)
Dave Sheridan (signed)
Dave Sheridan
Subject Matter
adult, horror
Reprinting
FlagAnthology of Slow Death #[nn] published June 1975
as Slow Death 5 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover introductory sequence with indicia information at bottom of page.
Last Gasp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Tom Veitch (signed)
Greg Irons (signed)
Greg Irons (signed)
Greg Irons
Subject Matter
adult
Ron Turner; Greg Irons [as GI]; Tom Veitch [as TV]; Shuggahoo; Jocko; Dave Sheridan
Dave Sheridan stops Ron Turner's evil plan.
Reprinting
FlagYou Call This Art?! A Greg Irons Retrospective #[nn] published July 2006
FlagAnthology of Slow Death #[nn] published June 1975
as Last Gasp [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
Recycled

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles Dallas (signed)
Charles Dallas (signed)
Charles Dallas (signed)
Charles Dallas
Subject Matter
adult
The Aquarians, an undersea race, leave the polluted Earth for a new home on another planet.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Museum Piece

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Rand Holmes (signed)
Rand Holmes (signed)
Rand Holmes (signed)
Rand Holmes
Subject Matter
adult
Lieutenant Steve Rawlins; Tom; Emmet; Major Hardwick; Native Girl; Thal-Va-Rak
An Earth spaceship arrives at Alpha Centauri to strip its planets of their natural resources.
Reprinting
FlagU-Comix Sonderband #7 published January 1974
as Museums Stück - Museum Piece [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAnthology of Slow Death #[nn] published June 1975
as Museum Piece [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
Melton's Big Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Richard Corben
Richard Corben
Richard Corben
Richard Corben
Subject Matter
adult
Melton
A big game hunter becomes the hunted.
Reprinting
FlagU-Comix Sonderband #3 published January 1974
as Melton's grosses Spiel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRip in Time #1 published January 1986
as Melton's Big Game [Story on Interior Page(s)]revised
 
Miscellaneous
8
Jesus Loves You - Kill Yourself

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
religious
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside of back cover.
Slow Death

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Jackson [as Jaxon] (signed)
Jack Jackson [as Jaxon] (signed)
Jack Jackson [as Jaxon] (signed)
?
Jack Jackson [as Jaxon]
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Sequence on back cover of issue.

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