Notes:
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
Library of Congress catalog #68-28025
1st printing: ?; Second printing: November 1968. It was also published in hardcover which is listed separately.
Viking Press did not want to publish further editions due to the subject matter. The next two printings were by Ballantine. An expanded edition was published in 1988 by Simon & Schuster.
Certain panels in this edition were slightly altered by the publisher, to Crumb's displeasure. Three of the stories were edited for content- "Life Among the Constipated," "Abstract Expressionist Ultra Super Modernistic Comics" and "Hey Boparee Bop." The first story was edited for racial language, the second story has a single censored panel while the latter has missing panels. Details in the respective story notes.
Notes:
Title page; A full-page illustration; title and publisher page; Reprint, copyright, publication and bibliograpical credits page; table of contents page
Reprint Notes:
from Yarrowstalks (David Auten and Brian Zahn, 1967 series) #2
Miscellaneous
Pages:
2
Notes:
Originally titled "Head Comix." Besides being reformatted to stretch out over two pages, the story has four panels missing from its original version. The panels in question featured the "Av 'n' Gar" characters accosting a woman in a sexually explicit manner. All future reprints published the story intact.
Character(s):
Bob Dill; Hotshot Manny Mustard; Clever Mr. Ketchup; Ed Egg; Solly Salt Shaker; Dick Tater; Beatrice Bread Slice; Sneezy Pete Pepper Shaker; Sammy Saucer; Conrad C. Cup; Bad Guy Billy Beercan
Reprint Notes:
from The East Village Other (East Village Other, 1965 series) #v3#10 (February 9-15, 1968); in Antimony (Toronto-based underground newspaper)