More TJ Bible stuff, Underground or both?

wpbooks · June 12, 2008, 10:31:20 PM

Can find no information on this one in any of the references or from dealers at the usual sites online. Inside cover indicia states: Copyright 1971 by W-F. 5466 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, California 90029. Interior is all reprints of TJ bible material and what looks to be a few pages of original artwork including a blasphemous bit about Jesus. Anyone come across this one before? Admins feel free to move this to another location if you deem it unworthy of this one....wasn't sure where to post this!

dr_s · June 13, 2008, 12:17:12 AM

I think I have it. Lots of stuff like that (mostly magazine sized from 1970-1972) Many listed on the comics price guide site.

wpbooks · June 13, 2008, 12:56:30 AM

This is comic book size. What's the comics price guide site?

dr_s · June 13, 2008, 01:18:08 AM

For a moment I thought I was having a SENIOR MOMENT. But, we both posted on the topic. http://www.comicspriceguide.com/boards/Topic1629-7-6.aspx

wpbooks · June 13, 2008, 12:16:57 PM

I never know what to call that location as I just have it bookmarked as "underground forum"....but those were all BOOKS dedicated to TJB's not COMIC BOOKS, as this one is. This has a more DIY kind of feel that seems closer to an UG than a regularly published, more mass marketed item. This might appear in a head shop where those other tomes probably wouldn't....does that make sense? That's why I posted it here as I can find no other listings for this particular item...though I would have guessed you would have one in your collection.

dr_s · June 13, 2008, 02:32:24 PM

There are many in magazine sized formats. I got my copy of the comic at San Diego, probably from Terry Stroud. There are the comic Eros Tijuana Bibles, although much later. Since the topic is here now, I will try to post some of the mag covers. Some are quite neat. I guess, when the Supreme Court ruled on pornography in the late 60s, they just went wild and published every they could, including the reprint of the bibles. I wondedr how many other comic book versions, if any, there are.
The Greenleafs are great because they included undergrounds. And, I am still looking for 2, the Sadomasochism in Comics and the Presidential Report.

wpbooks · June 13, 2008, 03:19:52 PM

Good luck on The Sadomasochism book but there is one listed at Abe from Ivan at Alta-Glamour, and The Presidential Report does have a habit of turning up...but The SM book is a toughie to be sure!

wpbooks · June 14, 2008, 02:36:36 AM

Some of those books I'm happy to have in just about any condition.

dr_s · June 14, 2008, 03:39:27 AM

I remember seeing the President's Report on the Duece (42nd st to non New Yorkers) when it came out. What a book. To think, the only time I can remember when it made the papers big time that 42nd st was raided for porno was when they were selling Zap 4.

wpbooks · June 14, 2008, 12:34:04 PM

Without a doubt that book is one of the greatest "fuck you's" to the abridgement of the first amendment in publishing history. Didn't Earl Kemp, the publisher, do some jail time for it. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the treatment he got was similar to Mike Diana's conviction over his comics, only much earlier. The story of that book would definitely make for an interesting article.

50Cent #II (1st print) · June 14, 2008, 02:16:43 PM

Anyone have any info. on this one? It's small, has 24 internal pages, the drug references make it more than just Tijuana Bible and the only date I see is the copyright 1969 from the centerfold. I wonder if they actually dosed any of the centerfolds, but my trippin' days are over so I ain't gonna try.

dr_s · June 14, 2008, 02:21:36 PM

But if I lick it, my copy won't be near mint.

50Cent #II (1st print) · June 14, 2008, 02:41:40 PM

The only thing I could find is that Speigelman and Griffith put out a book in 1977 titled Tiajuana Bible Revival #2 "Under the Stars in Hollywood". Interestingly they spell Tiajuana the same so maybe they are related 8 years apart?

50Cent #II (1st print) · June 14, 2008, 03:00:33 PM

Looks like they are not related, I found one reference to Tiajuana Bible Revival #1 Hot Nuts (1977). But I wonder if this passage from this book Pornography and Sexual Representation (p. 934) is referring to which one? If it's the one from 1969, then there might have been a #2, but I don't see any reference to a "Robert Murkey" in it so it's unlikely especially since Tijuana is spelled correctly in the title?
http://books.google.com/books?id=Opv9nz2M5c0C&pg=PA934&lpg=PA934&dq=%22Tijuana+Bible+Revival%22&source=web&ots=c_qJxPcQ5H&sig=TchZ9TTRBVSbOK1IWJ7BkC9zDh4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

wpbooks · June 15, 2008, 12:11:21 PM

Quote from: 50Cent #II (1st print) on June 14, 2008, 02:41:40 PM
The only thing I could find is that Speigelman and Griffith put out a book in 1977 titled Tiajuana Bible Revival #2 "Under the Stars in Hollywood". Interestingly they spell Tiajuana the same so maybe they are related 8 years apart?

I posted some info/scans at the link below on the other board FYI. I've looked for the Murkey books, but so far to no avail....perhaps the Gooddr. has those which he can someday scan. Most of the other ones mentioned in that article I have in my possession.

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