Raw 1980 #1 - 7.0 - $350.00

An invention for creasing trousers without the wearer having to remove them.

A brief bio on Alfred Jarry.

A hard boiled story told using first person point of view. The narrator is in New York, having fled Paris on impulse.

A sendup of the "Mutt and Jeff" strip.

A send-up of superhero comics and the fine art world as well.

Amy and Jordan are on the run after strange creatures turn up dead outside their home.

Mayberry's townfolk don't take kindly to a black man visiting their town.

An illustration based on objects from Emigholz's childhood. Accompanied by a brief text piece.

A cerebral deconstruction of the comics page. A series of unconnected panels where the thought balloons have squares and triangles inside them rather than words.

A man attempting suicide by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge has trouble completing the task.

A sendup of pulp detective stories involving a man eating in a diner.

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing. "RAW, Fall 1980, Vol. 1, No. 1, is published between two and four times a year by Raw Books, 27 Greene Street, New York, NY 10013, apparently on a non-profit basis. Copyright ? 1980 by Raw Books unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. Reproduction is forbidden without prior written permission from the publisher. Raw is interested in receiving submissions. They must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. All payment is in contributor copies. Original art and copyright, of course remain the contributor's property. Subscriptions are presently unavailable, but our next issue, or additional copies of our current issue, may be ordered from the publisher at $3.50 each plus 50? postage and handling. Distributors, dealers and advertisers (?) please inquire. Readers, please write." "Production assistant: Christina Nelson; Thanks and a special tip of the RAW beret to: Ben Katchor, Geoff Robison, Gary Hallgren and John Workman; Typesetting by the Old Typosopher; Lythographic plates & negatives by Sunrise Offset Plate Service Inc., NYC; Printing by Ensig Press- Robert Andrews Corp., NYC"

• - An almost full-page illustration accompanied by indicia
• Editorial - Editorial column with twelve assorted quotations; Table of Contents; production credits; Includes five small panels taken from the story contents.
• I'll Play the Blues for You - Set to the lyrics of the titular blues song.
• Mutton Geoff - Six horizontal mostly three-panel strips accompanied by six illustrations of the characters on the left side of the page.
• Man With Plastic Head Training His Commandos - Reprint note supplied by Caspar Williams via the Error Tracker (2020-08-12).
• Two-Fisted Painters - This and the story that follows are a twelve-page 5.25" x 8" (13.33 cm x 20.32 cm) comic booklet insert.
• The Modern Age: People Like It - Credited to the Paris-based Bazooka collective in the table of contents. However in the "Read Yourself Raw" compilation the credit is instead given to both Chapiron and his "Kiki Picasso" pseudonym rather than the collective he was part of.
• Not Dreams, NYC - Excerpt from a longer text piece accompanied by three illustrations of varying sizes. One of the illustrations is repeated three more times on the page. "From "Language Problems""
• The Andy Griffith Show - "Kart-tunz'" was an unofficial publication created by Harvey Kurtman's School of Visual Arts class.
• Cartoon Movies- Lesson 1 - A full-page foreground illustration accompanied by small-size background comic panels
• "At last! Huf! Hi Piker!" (Los Garriris) - Back cover.