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OZ #1-41 (Sydney: Oz Publications Ink Limited, April 1963-February 1969) - all published (first and last issues supplied in facsimile). Edited by Richard Neville and Richard Walsh (Walsh and Dean Letcher from #27 on), with art direction by Martin Sharp, assisted by Garry Shead, Peter Kingston, Mike Glasheen, Peter Wright, Peter Fisher and others. Magazine format, stapled, each 16pp.-22pp. (including cover). Printed letterpress (#1-11), offset from issue #12 on + OZ #1-48 (London: Oz Publications Ink Limited/H. Bunch Associates, January 1967-November 1973) - all published. Edited by Richard Neville, and (later) Felix Dennis and Jim Anderson (guest editors include John Wilcock, Germaine Greer, Paul Lawson, Andrew Fisher and Jonathon Green), with art direction by Martin Sharp, Jon Goodchild, Philippe Mora, Felix Dennis, David Wills, Richard Adams, Pearce Marchbank, Barney Bubbles and others, and photography by Bob Whitaker, Keith Morris, David Nutter, among others. Printed offset. Formats, sizes and pagination vary. A complete set of both the Sydney and London editions of Oz magazine (the first and last issues of the former supplied in facsimile). The first issue of London Oz is signed by Richard Neville and Martin Sharp on the front cover, issues #13 and #45 have been signed by artist John Hurford, and all the major inserts and almost all the numerous colour variants are present.
Richard Neville founded Oz from his family home in Mosman, a suburb of Sydney, in January 1963, together with a group of friends, among them Martin Sharp, Garry Shead and Alex Popov, and university student magazine editors Richard Walsh, Peter Grose, Peter Kingston and Mike Glasheen. The name for their new magazine originated from 'The Wizard of Oz', rather than the shorthand term for their homeland, a more obvious reference that Neville claimed did not occur to them at the time as the term was not then in widespread use. Intended to satirise Australia's conservative, deeply conformist and highly censored... More