Lot 230
Whole Wheat Comics #2 America's First Truly Black Comic Book (Ellis-Jackson Comic Book Co., 1978)
Northern Collection: From The Vault | CB26004
Auction: 6 November, 12:00 GMT
Description
Whole Wheat Comics #2 America's First Truly Black Comic Book (Ellis-Jackson Comic Book Co., 1978).
Cover art by Vincent Jackson. "America's First 'Truly' Black Comic-Book!" created by brother's Marvin and Edward Ellis. An underground, adult-humor oriented comic leaning into the counterculture ‘comix’ movement of the 1970s. Self-identifying as the first truly independent unfiltered Black underground comic. Comic size: 7-in. x 9 3/4-in. 44 pages. Black and white. Mature readers only. Cover price $2.00.
Grade: 5.5, FN-. Heaving tanning to edges of spine, edges of the pages, and front and back cover. Some point of tanning to interior pages but majority are off-white to white. Cover is firmly attached by the staples. The cover is a little shorter than the comic pages, bottom of the comic does stick out (please see images). Damage to the top right corner of comic (top of spine), around 0.5cm piece missing.
