ECHO DES SAVANES - MORMOIL - CANARD SAUVAGE - TOUSSE BOURIN - VAMPIRELLA - CIRCUS - AH! NANA, (and others from the French Underground Press)

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A Collection of 3 complete French subversive (comics)-magazines (bandes dessinées), in total 54 physical issues. The collection reflects the typical provocative character of this type of underground periodical of the 1970's in France. The contents are a mixture of strips, cartoons, comics, photo-novels, etc. by wellknown illustrators. Characteristic features are horror, science fiction, humor, detectives, westerns, comics, also political satire and film. Some illustrations are rather shocking, violent or obscene. All publications are in the original pictorial wrappers, Rare complete sets.

--L'ECHO DES SAVANES. Réservé aux Adultes. Nos. 1-71. Paris, Editions du Fromage, 1972-1980, together with L'ECHO DES SAVANES SPECIAL U.S.A. Trimestriel. Nos. 1-13. Paris, 1976-1979. All in original wrappers, unbound as issued, fine. Dir.: N. Mandryka. Picture-stories, science fiction, fantasy, comics, cartoons, satirical drawings by a.o.: Gotlib, Lob, Wallace Wood, Solé, Petillon, Baudoin, Marcelé. The special U.S.A. issues devoted to science fiction in the U.S. with contributions by Neal Adams, Richard Corben, Bretécher, Mike Kaluta, Jim Starlin and Jeff Jones. --AH! NANA.Nos. 1-9. Paris, oct. 1976-déc. 1977. Unbound, in orig. Wrappers as issued. Fine.-- Edited and with contributions by almost exclusively female journalists and illustrators. Ed.: Janic Guillerez. With strips, photo-novels and cartoons and with contribs. on feminism, politics, film, music, theatre. Illustrated front- and back wrappers. Contributions by Marj Marlowe, Arlette Stroumza, Paula Jacques, Marjorie Alessandrini, Agnes Varda, Wanda Makowski. Ills.: Nicole Claveloux, Chantal Montellier, Irina, Lili White Cat, Liz Bijl, a.o. With thematic issues as: Le sexe et les petites filles, Spécial Sado-Maso, Homosexualité / Transsexualité, L'Inceste. --MORMOIL. Réservé aux adultes. Nos. 1-7. Paris, mars 1974-nov. 1975. Unbound, in orig.wrappers as issues. Fine. Dir.: J.-C. Morchoisne; Ed.: Rampal & Lucques. Illustrated satirical magazine, containing cartoons, photo-stories, strips and contributions on film, politics. Contributions by Lucques, Konrad Lorenz, Nisset-Raidon, Rampal, Christian Binet. Illustrations by a.o.: Mulatier, Barbe, Ricor, Bridenne, Gir, Clays, Morchoisne. Each issue with a satirical drawing on the front- and backcover.