The New Adventures of Jesus, Frank Stack, 1969

Frank Stack, signing as Foolbert Sturgeon, began his Jesus strips in the early 1960s, and Gilbert Shelton gathered them into a photocopied booklet in 1964 that circulated among friends, which is why Stack shares the "first underground comic" argument with God Nose. Rip Off Press gave the strips a proper printed comic in 1969. The cover is gentle by underground standards: a barefoot, haloed Jesus pondering a drugstore window that advertises Halo shampoo, with a little poodle at his feet. The sticker in the corner gives away the tone: "If you liked the New Testament, you'll love this new improved testament!"