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Issue: Rip Off Comix #9
Publication Date: January 1981
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Issues: #9 of 30 Issues (36 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
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: 23 (17 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous
Character(s): Goose; Comix from France
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Editorial

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Frappington Wildebeest VII]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Frappington Wildebeest VII
First Line: In this issue of Rip Off Comix we introduce a new Managing Editor, Frappington Wildebeest VII.
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
First Line: You were a lot funnier when you were a little kitten!
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In Content Item: FlagFat Freddy's Comics & Stories #2 published January 1985
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Disclose Notes: Inside of front cover with indicia information at bottom of page.
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Knock 'Em Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous
Character(s): Novice Sound Engineer; Recording Execs
First Line: That was awful!
Synopsis: The bros. start a band after seeing a punk rock live act they didn't care for.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #7 [First Printing] published January 1982
as Knock 'Em Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Goose

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous
Feature(s): Goose
Character(s): Goose; Jack; Marty; Jack's girlfriend
First Line: Goose is back in town, after an extended "sabbatical" to, among other things,...
Synopsis: Goose, flush with cash after working in Alaska, arranges a wild party at Jack's place.
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The Battle of the Titans Part 2: The Death of Wonder Wart-hog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, anthropomorphic, humorous, superhero
Character(s): Piltdown Pig; Paranoid Punkpig; 996-347-1364/The Hog from the Future; Police Officer; Snake; Baby Huey; Baby's Huey's parents
First Line: Our hero has found himself involved in a highly improbable (but true) series of events...
Synopsis: With Wonder Wart-Hog and his brother Paranoid Punkpig dead, 996-347-1364 goes back to the future. But he forgot his soul snatcher pistol, which Piltdown Pig uses to revive them. 996-347-1364 comes back to retrieve the pistol and on Wonder Wart-Hog's request sends them back in time to Piltdown's prehistoric location.
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In Content Item: FlagWonder Wart-Hog and The Battle of the Titans #[nn] published January 1985
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Pages: 10
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This week: France

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous, science and technology
Feature(s): Gilbert Shelton's Advanced International Motoring Tips
First Line: The French put their traffic lights on the near side of the intersection...
Synopsis: The different aspects of French automobiles an their highway system.
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A French letter from our Paris correspondent

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Disclose Notes: Introduction accompanied by short biographies on the French cartoonists in this issue.
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Un Couple Moderne

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, drama, humorous
First Line: That mania for cleaning up
Synopsis: A couple who have nothing to say to each other.
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Toussaint (All Saint's Day)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adult, humorous
First Line: Going anywhere for the holiday?
Synopsis: A man is charged with going to Vierzon to put flowers on his friend's grandmother's grave.
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La Famine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adult, humorous
Synopsis: A ten-panel wordless strip showing starving men waiting for their meal.
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Vokluz - Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Phlans; Krushes; Zebs; Frenchman
First Line: Why do the "Phlans" wear snowshoes in the desert?
Synopsis: Four humorous riddles.
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Scandale!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, erotica, humorous
Character(s): Ham Higginbotham; Samba; John F. Kenney; Oliver Hardy; Stan Laurel; Jacqueline Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald; Jack Ruby
First Line: Ass!
Synopsis: Havok ensures after Hollywood journalist Ham Higginbotham's notebook goes missing.
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Up Shit Creek

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous
Character(s): President Bob; Little Paul; Rick
First Line: December 8, 1980.
Synopsis: Members of the John Lennon fan club organize a spontaneous demonstration after his death and have a violent close encounter with members of the Elvis fan club.
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The Secret Science of the Ancients

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous
Character(s): Mister Dubu
First Line: Will man some day replace the bulldozer?
Synopsis: An interview with Mister Dubu who says he can bend spoons.
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Lucien in The Flat for Rent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous
Character(s): Lucien; Barber; Roger
First Line: Yes ma'm, I'm calling about the five rooms for $100 a month!
Synopsis: Lucien gets his hair cut to appear older as he checks out a rental apartment deal that turns out to good to be true.
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Harry Mickson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, fantasy, humorous
First Line: Hnh!
Synopsis: Describing what happens when making love.
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La pomme de terre sexuelle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Tamponn Destartinn; Desire Guogueneau
First Line: I think perhaps it has been quite long enough since I telephoned my friend...
Synopsis: Tamponn plays a little joke over the phone on his friend Desire.
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The Sunday Morning Cassoulet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous, science fiction
First Line: The house is still standing.
Synopsis: A family lives underground seventeen years after a nuclear holocaust, waiting for the radiation to go away.
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Drymouth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, humorous
First Line: Ouch!
Synopsis: A dream about being inside a giant's mouth.
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Letters to Rip Off

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Ed.] (replies)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.73
Disclose Notes: Inside of back cover. Letters from Ivar Jorgensen, C. L., Mr. America, Dan Farrell
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Obscure Comix for Mutants!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Intellectually stimulating!
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover advertisement for items from Rip Off Press at the bottom of the page.
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The Rip Off Press Private Bus

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: The Rip Off Press private bus receives passengers outside the staid San Francisco publishing institution...
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Disclose Notes: Text and illustration on back cover.

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