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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers#1
Cover: Gilbert Shelton

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #1

Jan 1971 · Rip Off Press · 0.50 USD
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★ 1st appearance — Fat Freddy Freekowtski
Contains 56 stories
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
The Freaks Pull a Heist!
8 pp · Humor
Grocery Store Clerk

When Fat Freddy hits a junk food crisis and can’t afford his usual stash, the Freak Brothers’ desperation takes a wild turn—leading them to plan a grocery store heist just to satisfy his cravings. With the Grocery Store Clerk on the other side of the counter, things get chaotic, hilarious, and more than a little unpredictable.

Those Loveable Furry Freak Brothers
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
2 pp · Humor
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Go to College
3.667 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Head Librarian
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Clothing InspectorGrooming InspectorAttitude Inspector
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
FloydLeroy
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
DoctorGeneral Gaylord
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor, Detective-Mystery, Satire-Parody
Untitled Humor story
0.667 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Untitled Humor story
0.167 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Billy BobLeroy
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Operator
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Rent-a-CopPresident of Motown Records
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals, Satire-Parody
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
DaddyLittle Orphan AmphetamineGruntcakes
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Cop
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Cousin LeroyOfficer Joe
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Fly
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Untitled Humor story
0.6 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.4 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Field MarshallRoaches
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Scout #37642197Field MarshallRoachesMice
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor, Detective-Mystery, Satire-Parody
President Nignew
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Cop
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Roaches
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor
Leroy
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
0.834 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Untitled Humor story
0.166 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
0.67 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Untitled Humor story
0.33 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.75 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.125 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Untitled Humor story
0.75 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
0.125 pp · Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Roaches

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Fine) $20
CGC 9.6 · 4 in census $3,996
CGC 9.4 · 6 in census $1,867*
CGC 9.2 · 9 in census $1,867
CGC 9.0 · 11 in census $519
CGC 8.5 · 11 in census $519
CGC 8.0 · 10 in census $395
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CGC 7.5 · 9 in census $395
CGC 7.0 · 13 in census $326*
CGC 6.5 · 15 in census $326
CGC 6.0 · 7 in census $250
CGC 5.5 · 8 in census $186
CGC 5.0 · 7 in census $160
CGC 4.5 · 5 in census $154*
CGC 4.0 · 3 in census $147*
CGC 3.5 · 2 in census $125
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $123
CGC 2.5 · 3 in census $82*
CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $72*
CGC 1.5 none in existence
CGC 1.0 · 1 in census $38
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Trivia · 8 facts

  • Issue #1 is formally titled 'The Collected Adventures of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers' and was the first comic book published by Rip Off Press dedicated solely to the Freak Brothers characters.
  • All story, cover, and art credits for this issue belong to Gilbert Shelton, who was the sole creative hand on the series at launch — collaborators Dave Sheridan and Paul Mavrides did not join the title until issues #4 and #6, respectively.
  • The contents of issue #1 were largely drawn from Freak Brothers strips Shelton had syndicated to the Los Angeles Free Press, making it the first time those strips appeared collected in comic-book form under one cover.
  • Fat Freddy's Cat appears in the issue in small 'topper' strips at the bottom of full-page Freak Brothers pages — a format Shelton consciously modeled on the classic newspaper Sunday comic layout (large strip above, smaller related strip below), as seen historically with Krazy Kat.
  • The first printing is distinguished by a purple 50¢ cover price and a grey tire on the front cover illustration, plus a printing error on the back cover in which the portion of the American flag that should be blue was incorrectly colored black.
  • The issue went through at least 15 documented printings by Rip Off Press, with each printing identifiable by specific variations in cover color, tire color, fence/barrel/boot coloring, and interior paper stock — making printing identification a sub-hobby within underground comix collecting.
  • A special '20th Anniversary Edition' of Freak Brothers #1 was issued by Rip Off Press in 1991, featuring an inset commemorative seal on the cover.
  • Norbert the Nark — the series' bumbling DEA antagonist — and Tricky Prickears — a blind, deaf Dick Tracy parody drawn by Shelton in a Chester Gould pastiche style — are recurring characters in the Freak Brothers universe who appear across the series beginning in its early strips; Dealer McDope, though often name-checked in the series, was originally a character created by Dave Sheridan for the separate Rip Off Press title Mother's Oats Comix.

Cast · 12 characters

Full credits

writer, artist, inker, letterer Gilbert Shelton
cover pencils, inks Gilbert Shelton

Reprints

↩ Reprints Yellow Dog #7 (1968), Radical America #1 (1969), Yellow Dog #8 (1969), Yellow Dog #2 (09/10) (1969), Gothic Blimp Works #6 (1969), Hydrogen Bomb Funnies #1 (1970)

Reprinted in Original US-Comix #[nn] (1970), Die gesammelten Abenteuer der Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #[nn] (1971), Gung Ho! #[nn] (1971), El Perfecto Comics #[nn] (1973), The Best of The Rip Off Press #1 (1973), The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics #[nn] (1974), U-Comix Sammelband #1 (1974), Fat Freddy's Cat #1 (1977), The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat #[nn] (1977), Comic-Telegraf #9 (1980), De negen levens van Fat Freddy's kat #[nn] (1981), More Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat #[nn] (1981), The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics / The Best of Bijou Funnies #[nn] (1981), The Best of The Rip Off Press #2 (1981), U-Comix #5 (1981), U-Comix #9 (1981), Les fabuleux Freak Brothers #3 (1983), U-Comix #35 (1983), U-Comix #43 (1984), U-Comix #44 (1984), U-Comix #45 (1984), U-Comix #46 (1984), U-Comix #49 (1984), Fat Freddy's Cat #4 [Revised Fifth Printing] (1988) + 6 more

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