Slow Death Funnies #1, Greg Irons, 1970

The first comic from Last Gasp, the publisher that would carry the underground for decades. Ron Turner borrowed $2,500 to print it as a benefit for the ecology center where he volunteered, and it came out in April 1970, timed to the first Earth Day. Greg Irons gave it one of the bleakest covers of the era: a purple, city-crowned monster chewing through the Earth while the moon waits in its other hand. The red border marks this as a first printing; later printings switched to white.