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FITS Magazine #2 (SF: FITS Collective, 1972).
4to. Stapled wrps., 64pp. Front and back colour cover art by Bill Griffith. The first and only printing of the second (and last) issue of this comic-cum-magazine. Contains the lyrics to three Cockettes' songs from 'Hot Greeks', including 'The Twat of Tangier'. Illustrated with photographs by Fayette Hauser (4pp.).
Also: comic contributions from Spain Rodriguez, Kim Deitch, Jim Osborne, Kenneth Greene, Rory Hayes, and Bill Griffith; Bill Berkson and Joe Brainard collaborate on a 10pp. comic featuring children's cartoon characters Nancy and Henry having sex; Nancy Senauke's "Exercises in Smashing Monogamy"; an article by Bobbie Creeley about growing up in North Alabama; the Bread & Roses Collective (on women's liberation and small groups); Michael Brownstein; Lewis MacAdams; Allen Ginsberg's poem "On A Hermit's Cabin" (2pp., photos by Gordon Ball; not in Morgan bibliography); Alice Notley; Nancy Griffith on masturbating as a passenger in a car driving across the Golden Gate Bridge; Judy Grahn's story about a 6' 4" lesbian's psychoanalysis; three poems by Diane di Prima; a statement about Fred Hampton's murder anonymously contributed by "a film-maker" (Mike Gray); John Sinclair; Robert Crumb's ad. for Eric Fromm (aka Gary Arlington's comic bookstore in San Francisco); more.
Front cover lower right corner torn and creased, internally repaired with archival tape; pages tanned, dog-eared and creased at corners; spine rubbed; o/w Good.
