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Rip Off Comix #5

Rip Off Press · Series began 1977 · [September] 1979

Dates

Cover date
[September] 1979
On sale
1979
Pages
52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #5 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

pencils: Gilbert Shelton, Harry Driggs, Joel Beck, Dave Sheridan, Ted Richards, Bill Griffith, Paul Mavridesinks: Harry Driggs, Joel Beck, Dave Sheridan, Ted Richards, Bill Griffith, Paul Mavrides, Gilbert Sheltonscript: Bill Griffith, Paul Mavrides, Gilbert Shelton, Joel Beck, Harry Driggs, Dave Sheridan, Ted Richardsletters: Bill Griffith, Joel Beck, Harry Driggs, Dave Sheridan, Gilbert Shelton, Ted Richards

Stories

  • Think Eighties · 1 pages

    The major trends and events that will occur in the Eighties.

  • Take Me Out... · 9 pages

    The bros. sign up to play in a slow-pitch softball league.

  • The Bill Bland Show! · Cartoon Cavalcade · 1 pages

    A talk show chat with the Xenomorph from Ridley Scott's Alien film.

  • Mom Squad and the Space Pirates! · Mom Squad · 10 pages

    Mom Squad, investigating a mysterious energy source that blasted new craters on the moon, take on Captain Blast in his attempt to subjugate Earth with his spaceship's laser strobe cannon.

  • Time Twisted Tales · 16 pages

    The Tenth Century King Mirkwithe and his castle wind up in the Twentieth Century in farmer Fred Foyt's field.

  • The Famous Superheroes School · 11 pages

    Broke as always, Philbert starts a mail order business for a "Famous Superhero School."

  • Let's Welcome Out the Seventies! · Cartoon Cavalcade · 1 pages

    A six-panel basic summary of what happened during the Seventies.

  • Untitled · 1 pages

    Abbot, whom the hippie hasn't seen in a few years, has gone New Wave.

Characters

Fat Freddy FreekowtskiFreewheelin' Franklin FreekPhineas T. PhreakWonder Wart-hogPhilbert DesanexForty Year Old Hippie

Reprinted in

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (1971), 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), Time Twisted Tales (1986), Griffith Observatory (1993), Wonder Wart-Hog, Hog of Steel (1995), The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Follies (2022)

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