How old and how long have you been collecting Undergrounds?

[over40artist]

Maybe part of me is rooting that my son get into undergrounds. But then maybe part of me is rooting that my son doesn't end up as sexually twisted and diversely perverse as I am....

[Visitor Q]

You guys can always adopt me; I will take good care of your stuff. 

Jason

[Sir Real]

...end up as sexually twisted and diversely perverse as I am....

Comix did that to you, too???

[over40artist]

Thank God, they had a helping hand in my helping hand.

[Visitor Q]

So you guys want that info. now or later?

I want to be in uncle Arnie's will but I am not limiting myself here guys...

Jason

[oldmilwaukee6er]

I am 33 and started to actively research undergrounds beginning around 2000 when a friend, knowing I was into comics a little growing up (and knowing my interests around the millennium), gave me a stack of UG's in a gallon ziplock bag- mostly Freak Bros, Fat Freddy's Cat, and a Mr Natural.  I tried for a long time to learn more about them- printings, why they weren't in Overstreet, etc., but to no avail.  I watched (never bid) Freak Brothers & Zap Comix auctions on eBay for over 2 years trying to learn which were early printings, but it wasn't helping... I kept waiting for a 35-cent Freak Bros. #1! 

When we moved to Louisiana (c. 2002), I asked the grrl to check out every book on comics from LSU's library and one of the books she came home with was Estren's "A History of Underground Comix."  I found myself a used copy of Kennedy for around twelve bucks and I've been buying 'em ever since (started by buying from Donahue).

[Brother J]

I found myself a used copy of Kennedy for around twelve bucks and I've been buying 'em ever since (started by buying from Donahue).

Speaking of Don, I don't know if I'm the only one, but I wish he would offer up some different books when he does his eBay sales. It's almost always the same books. I assume they are the ones he is stocked deeply with. I haven't bought anything from him in a while. I'd actually like to see a new edition of his catalog, as mine is months old and I'm sure not accurate anymore.

[Visitor Q]

I found myself a used copy of Kennedy for around twelve bucks and I've been buying 'em ever since (started by buying from Donahue).

Speaking of Don, I don't know if I'm the only one, but I wish he would offer up some different books when he does his eBay sales. It's almost always the same books. I assume they are the ones he is stocked deeply with. I haven't bought anything from him in a while. I'd actually like to see a new edition of his catalog, as mine is months old and I'm sure not accurate anymore.

I was told sometime ago that his stock is pretty much gone.

Jason

[Reverend]

I'm nearly one year shy of the age Christ was when he was crucified, according to popular belief, that is. I've been collecting underground comix since the age of six or seven, though it's difficult to remember, but suffice it to say that it's been over twenty years.

My introduction to comix came by way of advertisements for them in the back pages of my father's High Society and Hustler magazines. If memory serves, the ads offered a sampler for x amount of dollars and showed pictures of Anarchy Comics #3, Bizarre Sex #10, Snatch #3, Young Lust #5, etc. Twisted and perverse, even then, I was fascinated by the covers and longed to know what awaited beyond. Earlier than that, though, I would admire many of Skip Williamson's contributions to 70s-era Playboy magazine. I can barely remember what most of them were about, though there was one instance when Snappy Sammy Smoot came into contact with a coffee enema . . . that one stuck. Little Annie Fanny, usually on or near the last page in the same magazines, was another favorite of mine and I would always tear them out when I came across them.

It was at a flea market that I happened upon a comic vendor who had a box labeled "ADULTS ONLY" under his table. My father, being the liberal-minded parent that he was, told the man selling them that it was okay for me to look and he obliged. It was so many years ago, but Zam was one of my first comix. I still remember being horrified and enthralled by Spain's Beyond The Exorcist (a movie just about every Catholic schoolboy had nightmares of).

At any rate, here I still am, some two-and-a-half decades later, as much in love with comix as ever, though my interest has mainly shifted to foreign, mostly British comix, and the most elusive, most obscure American offerings, given all that I've . . . assimilated through the years.

I suppose I've bored you all enough, so I shall bring this to a close.

[muutanet]

I'm 43 yrs old and my 9 yrs boy does not know much about U-comix yet (my wife knows about them and does not like - for her collecting comics is childish, but she never left me because of that, har har). I started collecting Finnish comics somewhere mid 70s after inheriting my big bros Finnish good-for-nothing war comics collection. Needless to say that I swapped them to "better" comics (at least according my own taste). He used to have a huge quantity of Finnish Warren reprints (we called it "Shokki", as they do in Sweden, "Chock"). Always when my bro did not know, my mom get rid of his horror magazines and burn them!

I think my first touch to U-comix was http://headcomix.info/wiki/doku.php?id=pilajuttuja_ja_piirroksia, a Finnish collection album full of Robert Crumb. My need for comics was not the same after that. I think much later my mom found that issue as well and get rid of it. Shame. It was a good item. Rare item nowadays.

But the Golden Ages of my collecting comics was beginning of 80s, when I moved out of home. It was specially peak of my U-comix. In November 1981 I met Heavy Metal and Richard Corben! I left Finnish comics just like that and focused to U-comix and Richard Corben. In Summer 1998 I moved to the Capital of Finland and I practically stopped collecting comics except Richard Corben. I have sold out majority of my Finnish comics and nowadays I'm interested only Richard Corben stuff. The best Corben stuff I bought mid 90s - before moving to Helsinki - on a visit to London. I did trip by my own and my suitcase was overweighted of comics I found. Customers were mercyful for me and did not charge extra. :7

P.S. I've been working with printed matter all my life. It's my occupation.

[Visitor Q]

Welcome to the site guys.

Jason

[fishnuts]

It's in the record books...I am sixty this past August.
I have been buying and reading comix since a Holiday trip to Dallas 12/69 - 1/70.
I began collecting them right after I read Slow Death, or San Francisco 1, or Motor City...whatever.  Those mothers really turned this iconoclast down an avenue that truly, seriously has affected my life choices. 
Still collecting stuff 37 years later.  In the  collectibles 'biz' doing Cons and trade shows off and on since 1972.  Two retail stores under my belt with The Little Barn in between.
Holy Moley!  I've been  turned into a punchline...I've got records(underwear?)(comix?) that I bought from head shops that are older than some of you guys.

Thanks for this site.  I'll be here. 
I love it when ya'll are fanboys...

[Visitor Q]

Welcome to the boards.

Jason

[Reverend]

It's the man himself. Welcome, indeed!

[Visitor Q]

It's the man himself. Welcome, indeed!

Thanks, but I have been here for sometime now. 

Jason