Conspiracy Capers 1969 Underground Comix Skip Williamson Rory Hayes Jim Osborne

Description: Conspiracy Capers 1969 The Conspiracy Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch, Jay Kinney, Gary Arlington, Jim Osborne, Rory Hayes, Art Spiegelman, Ralph Reese & more! Underground Comix RARE Underground Classic! Nice Shape! Some wear. See Pictures of actual item you will receive! Bagged & Boarded! Securely Boxed between sturdy cardboard to prevent bends or dings & Shipped with USPS Media Mail. See my other listings to save with COMBINED SHIPPING! DOMESTIC SHIPPING IN USA: Pay only 25 CENTS shipping per additional item/lot! FREE SHIPPING on orders over $100 in the USA! Wait for a combined shipping invoice or just pay and any extra shipping charges paid will be reimbursed. International buyers get combined shipping discounts as well but I’m using eBay Global Shipping so you’ll need to contact me before you buy. Read instructions below. INTERNATIONAL COMBINED SHIPPING: If you wish to buy more than one of my items and have them ship together, WRITE TO ME FIRST before doing anything and tell me which items you want, and I will make a custom listing just for you that includes all of them in one listing. Global shipping will end up being much less this way. Info from Comix joint—> Conspiracy Capers _ Only Printing / 1969 / 36 pages / The Conspiracy _ Conspiracy Capers has an interesting history that evolved from one of the most notorious political trials of the 20th century. The editor of Conspiracy Capers, Skip Williamson, also illustrated Abbie Hoffman's 1971 book, Steal This Book, perhaps the most radical counterculture book of the 20th century. Legend has it that Hoffman gave Williamson his advance from that book to produce a comic that would raise money to help pay for the defense of the Chicago Seven defendants. The Chicago Seven defendants were seven men who participated in protests that took place in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Conventio. They included Abbie Hoffman himself, as well as Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner. After the protests, the defendants were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot, to teach the making of an incendiary device, and to commit acts to impede law enforcement officers in their lawful duties. So Conspiracy Capers was intended to pay for attorney fees for the Chicago Seven (originally the Chicago Eight, but Bobby Seale had his trial severed during the proceedings, lowering the number from eight to seven). The comic book came out in 1969, more than a year before Hoffman's Steal This Book. I'm not sure how the comic was financed by Hoffman's advance for Steal This Book, since that book was rejected by every publisher and eventually published with funds supplied by Hoffman's friends. According to the indicia on the inside front cover, Conspiracy Capers was published by "The Conspiracy," Susan Sontag (treasurer) and Kathleen Cleaver. Sontag was a noted essayist, novelist and film director, while Cleaver was the wife of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and served as the Black Panther Party's spokesperson and press secretary. Sontag probably had the funds to finance the comic book's publication if she was so inclined. However Consipiracy Capers was paid for, I'm sure it didn't raise as much money as its creators hoped for, as it only had one printing. I'm not sure how many copies were produced, but I'm guessing it was 5,000 copies or less (it's not easily found in the marketplace), so the net revenue would have been a couple grand at best. Though it may have failed as a fund raiser, Conspiracy Capers doesn't fail as a comic book, at least not entirely. The book includes some decent comics from Jay Lynch, Art Spiegelman, Jay Kinney, Charles Winans, Dan Clyne and a few others, and the topics were not limited to political diatribes. Whatever money it raised, the fact that a comic book helped fund the legal defense for left-wing radicals was a landmark development in comic book history. The Chicago Seven trial began in September, 1969 and dragged on for months. Two defendants were found not guilty and five were found guilty on one charge, but their verdicts were later overturned in a federal court of appeals. _ HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES: It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted. _ COMIC CREATORS: Skip Williamson - (editor), 1, 19-20 Jim Osborne - 2 Baron - 3-6, 16-18 Jay Lynch - 7, 36 Daniel Clyne - 8-11 Art Spiegelman - 12 Pauld David Simon - 13-14, 21, 34 Jay Kinney 15, 35 Ralph Reese - 22-27 Gary Arlington - 28 (script) Rory Hayes - 28 (art) Charles Winans - 29-33

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Artist/Writer: Skip Williamson, Jim Osborne, Jay Lynch, Art Spiegelman, Jay Kinney, Ralph Reese, Gary Arlington, Rory Hayes

Tradition: US Comics

Cover Artist: Skip Williamson, Jayzey Lynch

Certification Number: 0278388030

Series Title: Conspiracy Capers

Universe: Underground Comix

Publisher: The Conspiracy

Intended Audience: Viewer Discretion Advised

Vintage: Yes

Publication Year: 1969

Type: Comic Book

Format: Single Issue

Language: English

Era: Bronze Age (1970-83)

Style: Partial Color

Genre: Animal, Bad Girl, Cartoon, Comedy, Cosmic, Dream, Drugs, Fantasy, Funny Animal, Good Girl, Horror & Sci-Fi, Illustration, Monster, Occult, Pin-Up, Supernatural, Underground, Weird