Texas Ranger 1962 Early Wonder Wart-Hog Gilbert Shelton College Mag UT Austin 👀

Description: The Texas Ranger September 1962 Very Early Gilbert Shelton Art/Comix University of Texas Undergraduate Humor Publication Austin, TX Underground Comix Historic Early Work Littered with art, cartoons & writing by Gilbert Shelton (Editor-in-Chief). Features a very early Wonder-Wart Hog 6-page comic story. Gilbert Shelton is also the creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, among other legendary Underground Comix. Also features art & writing from Tony Bell (Associate Editor) who later worked on Wonder Wart-Hog & other UG comix with Shelton! This is very early college work by these two giants of the Underground Comix scene, years before R. Crumb broke the scene wide open in the late 60’s! EXTREMELY RARE! IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!! ONLY ONE ON EBAY OR ANYWHERE ELSE!!! I imagine this was seen as a disposable student magazine and most have not survived! Great Shape for almost 65 years old! Some Wear. See Pictures of actual item you will receive! 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 Wikipedia: The Texas Ranger was the undergraduate humor publication of the University of Texas at Austin (UT), published from 1923 to 1972. A number of people who later went on to become key members of the underground comix scene — including Frank Stack, Gilbert Shelton, and Jaxon — were Texas Ranger editors and contributors during the period 1957–1965. Editor: Frank Stack (1957–1959) Bill Helmer (1959–1960) Gilbert Shelton (1962–1963) Staff cartoonists: John Canaday, Rowland B. Wilson, Harvey Schmidt, Gilbert Shelton, Frank Stack, Tony Bell, Jack “Jaxon” Jackson Over the years The Texas Ranger often drew the ire of UT's administration for its targeted satire and occasionally risqué content. Staff members called themselves the "Rangeroos"and were known for their bacchanalian parties, especially in the 1960s during Gilbert Shelton's reign as editor. The Texas Ranger and its sensibility were an especially important expression of American humor and comedy from the late 1950s through the 1960s. A line of demarcation came when cartoonist Frank Stack was The Texas Ranger editor from 1958 to 1959 (he joined the Ranger staff in 1957), during which time he published comic strips by fellow UT student Gilbert Shelton. As editor, Stack aspired for the Ranger to emulate the humor exemplified by The New Yorker and Punch. Although Stack graduated in 1959, starting in 1962, (using the pen-name Foolbert Sturgeon) he published his strip The Adventures of Jesus in The Texas Ranger (as well as early counterculture publications like The Austin Iconoclastic and The Charlatan). During this same period, cartoonist Jack "Jaxon" Jackson was on staff at the Ranger, until he and the others were fired in 1962 over what Jaxon called "a petty censorship violation". The magazine recovered in 1962–1964, under the editorship of Gilbert Shelton, his girlfriend Pat Brown, and Shelton collaborator Lieuen Adkins. (Shelton had graduated in 1961, but returned to Austin for graduate school – and to avoid the draft.) Shelton's superhero parody Wonder Wart-Hog began appearing in the magazine in 1962. Singer Janis Joplin, at that point a freshman art student at UT, hooked up with the Rangeroos and was even listed on the masthead of a few issues of the Ranger, although she never contributed to any articles. Other staff members during this period were cartoonist Tony Bell and Joe E. Brown, Jr., both of whom later collaborated with Shelton on Wonder Wart-Hog stories. Subsequent to their involvement with the Ranger, both Stack and Jaxon published collections which were important first works in the history of underground comix, with Stack's 1962 Adventures of Jesus and Jaxon's 1964 God Nose. And by 1968–1969, with Feds 'N' Heads, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and the formation of Rip Off Press, Shelton had become an important figure in underground comix.

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Location: Spring, Texas

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