The Tijuana Bible. Book 1

Seattle: Starhead Comix, 1991. First Edition. Very good. Single issue, No. 1; 9 1/2 x 7; pp. [30]; pictorial wraps; profusely illustrated; one leaf with a small, archival repair to lower corner, else minor wear to edges of wraps; very faint age-toning to margins; in very good or better condition.Considered predecessors to the underground comix genre, deemed illegal, and sold in secret, the so called Tijuana bibles (allegedly so called, because it was believed they were printed and smuggled into the US from Tijuana, Mexico) were pornographic comic books produced between the 1920s and the 1960s, with their reaching a peak in popularity during the Great Depression and slowly losing momentum from the end of WWII onward. Gathering some of the best of the original ones, editor and publisher Michel Dowers reissued them in a new format, starting in 1991 with the current one.