CATALOG RECORD

Zap Comix #12

Last Gasp · Series began 1982 · 1989

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Dates

Cover date: 1989
On sale: 1989
Pages: 52

Editions and covers (4)

Copies of #12 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition
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2nd printing

2nd print 2.50 USD

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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3rd printing

3rd print- 2.95 USD

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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4th printing

4th print- 3.95 USD

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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Creators

script: Spain Rodriguez, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, Robert Crumbpencils: Spain Rodriguez, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, Robert Crumbinks: Spain Rodriguez, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, Robert Crumbletters: Spain Rodriguez, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, Robert Crumb

Stories

Arthur · 1 pages
Trashman Agent of the 6th International · 10 pages
The Curse of the Mummy Monkey · The 'Boned' Man · 8 pages
The Girl · 2 pages
Coochy Cooty · 2 pages
Cinematographoönomatopoeia · 1 pages
The Artist and the Elves · 7 pages
An artist tries to get a group of elves to create art.
Rotten to the Core · 2 pages
Jam sequence with characters by their respective creators, this time with a loose theme of various characters heading to a "Zap #12" show in New York City.
Cave Wimp · 11 pages
Crumb tells the story of the first ectomorph in Neolithic times. Cave Wimp, an outcast of the clan, accidently finds himself in the favor of the alpha males. At least for a little while.
Lully Lulay · Lully Lulay · 1 pages

Reprinted in

The Complete Zap Comix (2014), Hysteria in Remission: The Comix & Drawings of Robt. Williams (2002), The Complete Crumb Comics (1987), Spain (2017), The Collected Checkered Demon (1998), Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin's Transcendence (2007), Bible of Filth (2017), Bible of Filth (2017), R. Crumb: Existential Comics, Selected Stories 1979-2014 (2025)