Feds 'N' Heads, Gilbert Shelton, 1968

Gilbert Shelton self-published Feds 'N' Heads in Austin in spring 1968, collating, folding and stapling the first 5,000 copies in his garage. It is the first comic book appearance of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, who get a credit at the bottom of the cover beside Shelton's superhero spoof Wonder Wart-Hog. The cover gag is the one Shelton kept telling for decades: a club-swinging cop promising to bash a hippie's skull in, and the hippie threatening to swallow a little blue pill and turn into Psuper Psycho. The Print Mint went on to reprint it many times, and the copy photographed here dates from 1970.