Item #39768 Small publisher’s ad. for “From Michael de Freitas to Michael X” in THE HUSTLER #1 (London: May 24, 1968).
Small publisher’s ad. for “From Michael de Freitas to Michael X” in THE HUSTLER #1 (London: May 24, 1968).

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Small publisher’s ad. for “From Michael de Freitas to Michael X” in THE HUSTLER #1 (London: May 24, 1968).

Newspaper format, printed offset-litho. 8pp. Photo-illustrated. The rare first issue of this Black community newspaper, edited (though not stated) by Courtney Tulloch from Frank Crichlow’s Mangrove Restaurant on All Saints Road (advertised on the last page).

The paper’s contents feature “James Baldwin: The Black Experience” (an edited transcript of him speaking to the West Indian Students Centre in February 1968), and a review of “Black Skin White Mask” by Frantz Fanon, combined with local Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill news, advice on housing, and a story on the recent parade by the Bread and Puppet Theatre group in St Stephen’s Gardens. One of the articles, on drug informants, begins: “How does the policeman control the ghetto? Like any colonialist trying to control an alien country of which he is secretly afraid, he does it by two means: by a direct show of force, and by corrupting and subverting the people.” Also includes the first appearance of the cartoon strip ‘Seraphina’, “a strange young Creole girl” with magic powers.

Old central horizontal fold, o/w Very Good plus. Issues of this short-lived fortnightly publication, advertisements for which first appeared in IT #40, initially had a very small circulation, and copies rarely appear on the market.

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