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california 1
  
excellent writing
exceptional art
historical bonus 3
total score 8
California Comics #1
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Only Printing / April, 1974 / 36 Pages / California Comics
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REVIEW SCORE 7
Featuring one of my Top Twenty Underground Covers by Ed Watson (one of two such awards from this short series), California Comics was published by the Bob Sidebottom, who owned the Comic Collector Shop on San Fernando Street in San Jose, California. Sidebottom's shop is commemorated in a story in this issue titled "The Experience Shop."

The front cover art, which is so evocative of the dreamy, stony, erotic sensibility of the counterculture in the late '60s and 1970s, is reason enough to own this comic and boosts the review score here by a solid point.
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HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted.
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COMIC CREATORS:
Bob Sidebottom - (editor)
Ed Watson - 1, 16-18
John A. Williams - 2-9, 35
Scott Shaw - 10-15
Will A. Meugniot - 19-23
Lucie Severino - 24-31
Robert Kline - 32
Han Hale - 33- 34