CATALOG RECORD

Rip Off Comix #3

Rip Off Press · Series began 1977 · [March] 1978

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Dates

Cover date: [March] 1978
On sale: 1978
Pages: 52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition
Source ↗
2nd printing

Second Printing

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Gilbert Shelton, Ted Richards, Dave Sheridan, Fred Schrier, Harry Driggs, Larry Rippee, Bill Griffith, J. Michael Leonardinks: Gilbert Shelton, Ted Richards, Dave Sheridan, Fred Schrier, Harry Driggs, Larry Rippee, Bill Griffith, J. Michael Leonardscript: Ted Richards, Gilbert Shelton, Manfred Mroczowski, Bill Griffith, Harry Driggs, Dave Sheridan, Fred Schrier, Larry Rippee, J. Michael Leonardletters: Ted Richards, Gilbert Shelton, Bill Griffith, Harry Driggs, Dave Sheridan, Fred Schrier, Larry Rippee, J. Michael Leonard

Stories

E. Z. Wolf's Kangaroo Court · 1 pages
The trial and judgement of Freddy Filver, a TV executive.
He Who Hesitates · 2.87 pages
A cop pulls over Phineas only to have his police car destroyed by an eighteen-wheeler.
Untitled · 0.13 pages
The cat checks out food left on the ground from the previous night's party.
Untitled · 0.5 pages
Fat Freddy's Cat tells his "nephews" the true origin of the symbiotic relationship between humans and cats.
Untitled · 0.5 pages
The cat wants some of the fruit cocktail from the can that Fat Freddy is opening up.
Untitled · 0.5 pages
Fat Freddy tries to wake up his sleeping cat.
Objective Study · 1 pages
The Normals · 1 pages
The "salt of the Earth" in the 25-to-35 age group.
The 'Zine Scene · 1 pages
Ostentatious Humility · 1 pages
The kitsch of ostentatious humility.
The Worriers · 1 pages
The different kinds of worriers.
Media Addicts · 1 pages
Untitled · 2 pages
The hippie thinks his pyramid hat will solve all his problems.
Untitled · 1 pages
Primo collection.
Untitled · 1 pages
The hippie recounts the time he was a taster at a dog food factory.
Untitled · 1 pages
The hippie's holistic kazoo workshop.
A Different Drummer · 1 pages
The Wings of Charley · 7 pages
Charley gets on the top of a giant construction crane out of curiosity but gets confronted by a reverend and a police officer who think they need to save him.
The Islands · 8 pages
Dealer McDope and his lady friend Flo Wiffit travel to an island to attend a party.
Untitled · 1 pages
An older nerd deplores the TV program others are watching.
Unspeakably Stupid! · Stupid Stories · 1 pages
Clyde gets away from civilization and comes back out of curiosity several decades later.
Luncheon Counters of the Worst Kind · 1 pages
The Barroom Scene · Star Weevils · 1 pages
A cantina scene riffing on the one from the Star Wars movie.
Return From the Planet of the Pigs · 12 pages
Wonder Wart-Hog, on Uranus, uses his super acute hog-vision to look for Earth after its nuclear incineration. He finally spies his home 68,823 years later. Returning to Earth, he finds it has recuperated. He also comes across a second version of himself, but larger, uglier and less intelligent.
#178 [Wearing Out Their Cars] · 1 pages
The problem of the increasing numbers of old cars clogging the highways.

Characters

Fat Freddy FreekowtskiFat Freddy's CatFreewheelin' Franklin FreekPhineas T. PhreakWonder Wart-hogForty Year Old HippieDealer McDopeCousin Cowfreak

Reprinted in

Fat Freddy's Cat (1977), Griffith Observatory (1993), The Whole Forty Year Old Hippie Catalog (1978), More Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat (1981), Underground Classics (1985), The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Follies (2022), The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (1971), Knockabout Comics (1980), Wonder Wart-Hog and the Nurds of November: Gilbert Shelton's Exciting Cartoon Novel of Election-Year Politics, International Nuclear Terror, Professional Football, Science Fiction, Motorcycle and Auto Racing, Pestilence, Famine, Economic Collapse (1980), Fat Freddy's Comics & Stories (1983), Greatest Diggs of All Time (1991)