New KISS, Vol. 1 no. 8, June 1969
New York: 1969. Wraps. 15 x 11.5 inches, newsprint, good to very good, a few short tears, general tanning. 19 pp. Underground newspaper tending toward the seedy. A note on the first page states that the publisher was hauled away in a police raid, in a bust that took in the proprietors of Screw, Pleasure and a number of other such journals, and the remaining staff has made an attempt to clean up this issue to meet police standards. With "Swingers Under Surveillance?" by D. A. Latimer, explaining that some classifieds are by FBI undercover agents, "Inter/Course" by Robert Rosinek on the United States of Erotica Gallery, some photos of genitalia with "Censored DA" in police tape over them, double page blue and green screen print advertising The Cock Book by Brigid Polk and her friends (Brigid Berlin or Polk got a bunch of artists to draw renditions of penises in a book; it eventually sold to Richard Prince for nearly $200,000), "Underground Confidential" by Andy Warhol with pics of Ingrid, Brigid and Candy (photos by Jed Johnson), Emmett Williams concrete pencis poem, Steve Ditko comics, advertisement for Ondine's advice column, and some "Censored" pages. RARE. Very good. Item #H28172
Price: $85.00