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Issue: Forbidden Knowledge #1

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Publication Date: June 1975

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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues (3 Printings)

Title:

Variant: First Printing

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Publisher: Flag

Last Gasp

Brand: Last Gasp

Indicia Publisher: Last Gasp

On Sale Date: 06/1975

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): George DiCaprio

Notes: Underground Comix are known for using different prices, covers (art or color variations) and/or interior content to distinguish between printings.
1st print June 1975 has 0.75 USD cover price.
2nd print has 0.75 USD cover price. Believed to be indistinguishable from 1st print.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

2 Forbidden Knowledge #1 [First Printing]

Forbidden Knowledge #1 [Third Printing]

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Robert Williams (signed, painted)

Inker(s): Robert Williams (signed, painted)

Colorist(s): Robert Williams (signed, painted)

Subject Matter

Genres: adult, horror

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Hysteria in Remission: The Comix & Drawings of Robt. Williams #[nn] published September 2002
as Forbidden Knowledge #1 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): George DiCaprio

Penciller(s): Rich Chidlaw

Inker(s): Rich Chidlaw

Letterer(s): George DiCaprio

Subject Matter

Character(s): Treplaned skull

First Line: When I was younger than twenty...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover text with an illustration and indicia information at bottom of page.

The Notorious Hell-Fire Club

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): George DiCaprio

Penciller(s): Matt Golden

Inker(s): Matt Golden

Letterer(s): Matt Golden

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Synopsis: The exploits of the 18th Century Hell-Fire Club.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

Alcibiades the Phallos Smasher

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Brent Boates

Penciller(s): Brent Boates

Inker(s): Brent Boates

Letterer(s): Brent Boates

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Character(s): Alcibiades

Synopsis: The story of an ancient Greek child molester.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Stars of the Roman Colliseum

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Art Vitello

Penciller(s): Art Vitello; Milt Gray

Inker(s): Art Vitello; Milt Gray

Letterer(s): Art Vitello

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Character(s): Nero

Synopsis: The excesses of Roman emperor Nero.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: Milt Gray draws panels 2-4 on page two.

The Body of Pope Formosus Exhumed for Trial by Order of Pope Stephen VII

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Jean-Paul Laurens

Inker(s): Jean-Paul Laurens

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Centerfold painting.

A Plague of "Treponema Pallidum!"

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Milt Gray

Penciller(s): Milt Gray

Inker(s): Milt Gray

Letterer(s): Milt Gray

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Synopsis: The arrival of syphillis in Europe.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Blood Lust of the Tupinamba

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Himes

Penciller(s): Jim Himes

Inker(s): Jim Himes

Letterer(s): Jim Himes

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Synopsis: Recounting the cannibalism of an Amazonian tribe.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

A Most Unusual Way to…

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Icelandic Codpiece Comic Studio

Inker(s): Icelandic Codpiece Comic Studio

Letterer(s): Icelandic Codpiece Comic Studio

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Synopsis: An unusual death during an exploratory mission.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Credit likely to be an alias for person listed in the indicia as 'Dennis Ellison', although this artist is known elsewhere as Dennis Ellefson.

Aicha Qandicha

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chris Lane

Penciller(s): Chris Lane

Inker(s): Chris Lane

Letterer(s): Chris Lane

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Synopsis: The story of Morrocan succubus.

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Pages: 2

The Skoptsi Castrators of Russia!!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Rich Chidlaw

Penciller(s): Rich Chidlaw

Inker(s): Rich Chidlaw

Letterer(s): Rich Chidlaw

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Synopsis: An unusual Russian cult.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Sequence ends on inside of back cover.

The Neanderthal Bear Cult

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Williams (signed)

Letterer(s): Robert Williams

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Synopsis: The story behind the front cover illustration.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Hand-written text page on back cover of issue.