CATALOG RECORD

Arcade the Comics Revue #1

The Print Mint Inc · Series began 1975 · Spring 1975

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Dates

Cover date: Spring 1975
On sale: 1975
Pages: 44

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

script: Robert Crumb, Jim Osborne, Bill Griffith, Art Spiegelman, Jay Lynch, Willy Murphy, Paul Krassner, Kim Deitch, Jay Kinney, Gilbert Shelton, William Shakespeare, Justin Green, Will Fowler, Curt McDowell, Michael McMillan, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, George Kuchar, Diane Noomin, Robert Armstrong, Victor Moscosopencils: Robert Crumb, Jim Osborne, Bill Griffith, Art Spiegelman, Jay Lynch, Willy Murphy, Spain Rodriguez, Kim Deitch, Jay Kinney, Gilbert Shelton, Justin Green, Harrison Cady, S. Clay Wilson, Curt McDowell, Michael McMillan, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, George Kuchar, Diane Noomin, Robert Armstrong, Victor Moscosoinks: Robert Crumb, Jim Osborne, Bill Griffith, Art Spiegelman, Jay Lynch, Willy Murphy, Spain Rodriguez, Kim Deitch, Jay Kinney, Gilbert Shelton, Justin Green, Harrison Cady, S. Clay Wilson, Curt McDowell, Michael McMillan, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, George Kuchar, Diane Noomin, Robert Armstrong, Victor Moscosocolors: Robert Crumb, Victor Moscosoletters: Robert Crumb, Jim Osborne, Bill Griffith, Art Spiegelman, Jay Lynch, Willy Murphy, Kim Deitch, Jay Kinney, Gilbert Shelton, Justin Green, S. Clay Wilson, Curt McDowell, Michael McMillan, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, George Kuchar, Diane Noomin, Robert Armstrong, Victor Moscoso

Stories

Caterina Sforza · They Shall Not Be Forgotten · 1 pages
Biographical details of the life of Caterina Sforza.
Editorial: An Introduction · 0.5 pages
A statement of intent.
Cracking Jokes: A Brief Inquiry Into Various Aspects of Humor · 3 pages
An investigation of humour.
Untitled · 3 pages
The contrast of bad times and easily available entertainment.
Detective Zippy, Plainclothes Pinhead · 3 pages
Zippy runs a detective agency and locates a diamond-encrusted g-string in typically discursive manner.
Once More, With Or Without Feeling · 2 pages
Arnold encounters gay society.
The Love Song of Timothy Leary · 3 pages
Paul Krassner's thoughts on post-Vietnam American society.
Mishkin's Folly · 3 pages
Proclaimed dry, Mishkin is released back into society for a weekend furlough from Berndale Acres Sanitarium.
Big Ass Topics · 2 pages
R. Crumb's obsession with big asses.
Art School · 1 pages
A look at life-drawing at an art school.
Midnight · 3 pages
A possible future
Number 836 · 1 pages
Motoring oddities.
Wm. Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale · 3 pages
A Winter's Tale cast with caricatures.
A Hand Job · 1 pages
Dream recollection.
Sounds of the Carnival · 3 pages
A dysfunctional carnival relationship.
The Yma Sumac Story · 0.5 pages
Fantasy about Yma Sumac.
Kelvin the Human Fly · 0.5 pages
Kelvin has a personality crisis.
A Little Girl with a Grudge · 0.5 pages
How children absorb behaviour.
Letter for Olga · 0.5 pages
Olga attends an art show.
Bingo Bondage · 0.5 pages
DiDi goes to the bingo.
Looking At the World Thru Rose Colored Glasses · 0.5 pages
The search for identity.
Mystic Comics Part 1 · 1 pages
A fantasy.

Characters

Zippy the PinheadDiDi GlitzNardPat

Reprinted in

Breakdowns: From Maus to Now: An Anthology of Strips (1977), Knockabout Comics (1980), Breakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (2008), Bill Griffith: Lost and Found - Comics 1969-2003 (2011), Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (2022), Flamed-out Funnies (1975), Zippy Stories (1984), Bible of Filth (1986), The Complete Crumb Comics (1987), Beyond the Pale! Krazed Komics and Stories (1989), Griffith Observatory (1993), Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions (2006), Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 (2010), Glitz-2-Go (2012), Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps (2013), Bible of Filth (2017), Bible of Filth (2017)