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Issue: Rip Off Comix #8
Publication Date: April 1981
 
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Publisher: FlagRip Off Press
Brand: Rip Off Press
Indicia Publisher: Rip Off Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 1981
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 17 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US (#1-10); US magazine format (#11-31)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adult, humorous
Cartoonists of the World
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Achtung!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
This issue of Rip Off Comix marks the beginning of some new features we'd like to tell you about.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
Introductory text on inside of front cover.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Fat Freddy's Cat's nephews
Uncle F., we'd like to talk to you!
Fat Freddy's Cat's nephews ask him a question.
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Inside front cover with indicia information at bottom of page.
Phineas Gets An Abortion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adult, humorous
Merry; Merry's Father; Chamberlain Killpigge
Phineas gets his girlfriend's fetus transplanted into him.
Reprinting
FlagThe Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #7 [First Printing] published January 1982
as Phineas Gets an Abortion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagU-Comix #18 published February 1982
as Phineas Fehlgeburt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Jesus and the Bank Robbers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous, western
Zeke; Bob; Tricky Dick; The Clerk
In a house in the suburbs Jesus attends to an unpleasant monthly chore
Jesus goes back in time to the 1880 Old West to see if it is a good time to do the Final Judgement.
Reprinting
FlagUnderground Classics #14 published January 1992
as Jesus and the Bank Robbers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe New Adventures of Jesus: The Second Coming #[nn] published October 2006
as Jesus and the Bank Robbers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Battle of the Titans!!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure, anthropomorphic, humorous, superhero
Piltdown Pig; Puff; Paranoid Punkpig; 739-61-46-108
No matter how hard I bash this pig, it doesn't seem to hurt him!
Piltdown Pig and Paranoid Punkpig team up to take on Wonder Wart-Hog. The noise of the ensuing battle gets the attention of 739-61-46-108, a wart-hog from the future who comes to stop the conflict.
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FlagWonder Wart-Hog and The Battle of the Titans #[nn] published January 1985
as Wonder Wart-hog in the Battle of the Titans [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
Credits at bottom of first page list "by Gilbert Shelton and Tony Bell with Joe E. Brown, Jr. Uncertain as to whom to credit for what.
British Comix Bonus

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (masthead)
? (masthead)
typeset
Subject Matter
It's getting so you can't hardly tell the British from the good, honest, Godfearing American.
Intro for the UK comics section that follows.
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Miscellaneous
0.65
Text article with illustrated title header.
About the Cartoonists...

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Brief blurbs on this issue's UK cartoonists.
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Miscellaneous
0.35
Spotty Dick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adult, humorous
Spotty Dick
Spotty Dick; Assistant Zoo-Keeper/Mr. Trumpton; Basil the Strangler Elephant; Zoo Keeper/Mister Kneebone; Percy the Python; The Assistant Head Keeper/Mister Frogpond; Rodney; The Head Zoo-Keeper; Mister Stickinplaster
Hmm, so you left school yesterday and you're looking for your first job.
Spotty Dick gets a job as an odd-job boy at the zoo.
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Hey so where you bin?
Two friends talk about music and then about cooking.
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Miscellaneous
1
Three-Eyes McGurk and His Death-Planet Commandos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
fantasy, humorous, science fiction
Three-Eyes McGurk
Three-Eyes McGurk; Glass-Brain; Tabatha; Axel Pressbutton; Lonesome Henry the Human Bomb; Zilchrton Fuzz
The planet Barfo receives few visitors...
McGurk and friends go to the planet Zilchtron in order to retrieve the Living Heart of the Universe for a massive reward.
Reprinting
Reprinted from the UK weekly magazine DARK STAR, issues #22–25 (1979–1980)
Miscellaneous
4
Four, one-page, connected strips. First appearance of Axel Pressbutton.
The Whacky World of Wildlife

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Clyde; Mother
You do realize that there's nothing personal, don't you?
Four four-panel strips about wildlife and humanity's exploitation of them.
Reprinting
from The Beast (Animal Liberation Movement) ?
Miscellaneous
1
Four, one-quarter page strips.
The Lone Groover

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adult, humorous
Groover; Rocky Thighs
It's crazy Groover, y'try t'get a recordin' contract an' they ask if y're playin' gigs
Four four-panel strips involving musician Groover and the recording industry.
Reprinting
from New Musical Express ?
Miscellaneous
1
Thok

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy, humorous
Urf!!!
A motorcycle rider in a desolate desert landscape finds his bike is malfunctioning.
Reprinting
from ?
Miscellaneous
2
The Tower

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
Gak; Gak's brother; The Holy Immortal
Carved from the last tree and preserved in plastic....
A repair visit to The Holy Immortal who lives in a hut in a tower carved from the last tree.
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from ?
Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adult, humorous
Lester; Lester's wife
These simple exercises are suitable for either sex.
Lester has serious cramps after eating his meal.
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from ?
Miscellaneous
2
Sequence ends on inside of back cover.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adult, humorous
Christian driver
Honk if you love Jesus
Phineas honks at someone who has a "Honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Sequence on the back cover.

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