Convention organized by Nick Marcus, Mike Manyak, Jon Campbell, Clay Geerdes, John Barrett, Bud Plant, and Robert Beerbohm.   Program printed by Rip Off Press.   Comix World article by Clay Geerdes, front cover by Rick Griffin, back cover by Larry Todd.

EC article illustrated with art by Wally Wood, Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Joe Orlando, and Will Elder.    Notes from the Underground: remembrances of EC from numerous underground artists. 

Highlights of this issue are the cover and 2-page color strip by Richard Corben, and an article about DC’s Korak, Son of Tarzan comic of the 1970s by John Pocsik.

Interview with C.L. Moore.

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"The Filming of 'Fritz the Cat'; The Life of Ub Iwerks; Color Comics by Richard Corben"

Hot Stuf' #1 & 2 were the only issues that were magazine size.  Subsequent issues were standard comic book size, albeit on glossy paper.

7 x 10"

7 x 10"

Features interviews with Mike Kaluta, Steve Harper.

Features interview with Richard Corben.  A color print by Bernie Wrightson (“The Cryptics”) was inserted as a bonus.

Interviews with Mike Kaluta, Vaughn Bode, Tom Sutton, John Severin, Bernie Wrightson, and Jeff Jones.  Strips by Steve Hickman, Jim Miller, Vaughn Bode.  “The EC Answer to Comic Book Originality” by Meade Frierson III.

The second image is simply a color scan of the original cover painting.

Features include Part One of an interview with Richard Corben, and fanzine reviews. 

Includes ads for Ragnarok #2, Gordon Bailey’s Fandom Newsstand Catalog, and various Middle Earth portfolios and prints. 

Letters page includes letters from Jim Jones, and Duffy Vohland.

Features include Part Two of an interview with Richard Corben.  Part Three was scheduled for issue #6, but was bumped by an “Inside Comix” feature.  Issue #6 was the final issue, and the third part of the Corben interview would never appear. 

Includes ads for Eternity Science Fiction, The Collector #27, and various Middle Earth portfolios and prints. 

Nickelodeon took the place of Trumpet after Tom Reamy became embroiled in a publishing deal with Nostalgia Inc. that didn’t turn out as he had hoped or been led to believe.   Reamy shared editing and publishing duties with Ken Keller, who would go on to publish Trumpet #12 in 1981, in an effort to resurrect the title.  

Editorial features include: 

Cover by Richard Corben.

“COMIC COLLECTORS COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel.  

“RBCC INFORMATION CENTER” by Raymond Miller.  

“EYEING THE EGOS” column by Jan Strnad.  

“HOT AIR FROM A COOL FAN” by Andy Warner.

"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with a letter from John McLaughlin.

Ads for:

ANOMALY #3 (update re Robert Kline leaving fandom)

ARMAGEDDON #1 and 2

BEDLAM #1 (published?)

CAPTAIN BILJO PRESENTS #2

CAPTAIN GEORGE PRESENTS Series 3, #30:  Captain America

CAPTAIN GEORGE PRESENTS Series 3, #31 &  32: Secret Agent X-9

CAPTAIN GEORGE PRESENTS: Frank Frazetta Special

COLLECTORS’ GUIDE: First Heroic Age (Jerry Bails)

COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 1st Edition

COMICS COMMENTARY #2

DETECTIVE’S, INC. 

ELECTRIC STORIES #1

FANCAL ’71 (never published)

FANDOM ANNUAL #1 and 2

FANDOM MEDIA #2

FANDOM’S FANS #1

FANTASTIC EXPLOITS #15 and 16

FIGHTING HERO COMICS #14

FMZ #1

GOLDEN AGE #3, 4 and 5

GRAPHIC STORY MAGAZINE #11 and 12

GREMLIN #2

ILLUSTRATED COMIC COLLECTORS HANDBOOK #3

INFINITY #1 and 2

MARVELZINE MONTHLY #1 (published?)

MICHAEL BRAND, THE GENTLEMAN SPY

NEW WORLDS TO GAIN #5

ORACLE (UK zine)

PHENOMENON #2

PLASTIC ORACLE #1

PORTFOLIO #3

POX VOBISCUM #1

PROMETHEAN ENTERPRISES #2

REALITY #1

ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #7 and 8

SILVER STARR IN THE FLAME WORLD 

SOMETHING BETTER #1 (published?)

THE COMIC ARTIST #3

THE COLLECTOR #21

THE RED REEB  (published?)

THIS IS LEGEND #1

THIS WORLD AND OTHERS #1, 2

TOMORROW MAGAZINE #1

Editorial features include:

Cover by Richard Corben.

“The Super Labors of Love,” an article about GB Love reprinted from Tropic May 2, 1971 (the Sunday magazine to The Miami Herald).  

“PULPS — ERA OF ADVENTURE” by James Van Hise and Robert Weinberg.  

“COMIC COLLECTORS COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel, including a FANDOM PROFILE of Robert Weinberg.  

“The Dweller” by HP Lovecraft, illustrated by Don Newton (centerspread).  

“HOT AIR FROM A COOL FAN” by Andy Warner.  

“BEHIND THE SCENES AT DC COMICS” by Bruce Hamilton (A talk with Jack Kirby).  

Part 2 of a reprint of “Danny Dreams” by Joe Kubert from 1,000,000 Years Ago #1.

"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with letters from Dick Mosso and Dave Puckett.

Ads for:

CAPTAIN BILJO PRESENTS #2

CITSATNAF #1 (published?)

COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 1st Edition

COMICS COMMENTARY #5

COLLAGE #1

ECSTASY OBLIVION (published?)

ERBDOM

FANDOM ANNUAL #2

FANTASTIC EXPLOITS #15 thru 21

FANTASY WORLD OF JONES (published?)

FIGHTING HERO COMICS #14

FUNNYWORLD #13

GEORGE 

GOLDEN AGE #4, 7

GRAPHIC STORY MAGAZINE #13

GRAPHITTI #1 (Never published)

HERITAGE #1a

INFINITY #3

MYRON MOOSE FUNNIES

NEBULOUS #1

NUCLEUS YEARBOOK #1

PULP #2 

REALITY #2

THE COLLECTOR #23

THE FANTASY WORLD OF JONES I & II #1 (published?)

THE JEFF JONES PORTFOLIO (Tom Veilleux)

THE MANDRILL COMICS (published?)

THE SPECTRUM #1, 2

TRAIN OF THOUGHT #6

VACATION IN DUCKBURG #2

VULCAN #1

WITZEND #8 

Editorial features include:

Cover by Richard Corben.

“THE CLIFFHANGERS” by Earl Blair, Jr.   

An interview with Kirk Alyn.   

“RBCC INFORMATION CENTER” by Raymond Miller.  

“COMIC COLLECTORS COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel, including a FANDOM PROFILE of Biljo White.  

DallasCon 1971 report by James Van Hise.  

Ads for:

A JOB FOR SUPERMAN by Kirk Alyn

AFTERMATH (British adzine)

ANOMALY posters by Robert Kline

ASSORTED SUPERLATIVES #3

CAPTAIN GEORGE PRESENTS

CAPTAIN GEORGE’S WHIZZBANG

COLLAGE

COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 1st Edition

COMIC FANDOM MONTHLY

COMICS AND THEIR CREATORS by Martin Sheridan

COMICS COMMENTARY #6 

EC PORTFOLIO #1

EPOCH FANZINE #1

FANDOM ANNUAL #2

FANTASTIC EXPLOITS #15 thru 21

FIGHTING HERO COMICS #14

FVP #2

HERITAGE #1

HERO PULP INDEX (Robert Weinberg)

JOURNEY INTO COMICS #4-8

KEN BARR poster

LOST AND PROFOUND #1 & 2  

NICKEL LIBRARY

NOSTALGIA COLLECTOR #1

OPARIAN #1

PLG COMICS #1

POX VOBISCUM #1

REALITY #2

SCREAM DOOR #1

SQUA TRONT #1 reprint

THE COMIC WORLD #14 (Robert Jennings)

THE JEFF JONES PORTFOLIO (Tom Veilleux)

TOP NOTCH (published?)

VACATION IN DUCKBURG #1 and 2

WEIRDOM COMIX #14