Harold Hedd #1 7th Print - Never Folded / #2 1st - 1972 Rand Holmes / 6.5 & 7.5

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Harold Hedd #1 7th Print - Never Folded / #2 1st - 1972 Rand Holmes / 6.5 & 7.5:
$23.99

Harold Hedd #1 - 7th Printing 1972 FN+ 6.5/ Harold Hedd#2 - 1st Printing 1973 VF- 7.5Rand Holmes / Incredible Underground Comix

The Collected Adventures of Harold Hedd is a very large (10.75 x 14.5\") comic book featuring 34 one-page Harold Hedd comic strips by Rand Holmes that originally appeared in The Georgia Straight, a Vancouver underground newspaper with a fairly radical heritage (it is still a popular free weekly). Harold Hedd is a pothead character who became the everyman hero of the emerging counterculture in Vancouver in the early \'70s. Hedd demonstrated much wit and ingenuity as he continually battled with the Vancouver government and police, especially its mayor, Tom Campbell, who was strongly anti-pot and anti-hippie.

In the course of the comics in this book, we are introduced to Harold\'s cousin Elmo, who Harold hasn\'t seen since grade school. Elmo shows up at Hedd\'s delapidated apartment dragging his motorcycle and a boisterous dog into the living room, and a lifetime friendship with Harold is born. Most of the rest of this book and all of the rest of Harold Hedd comics include cousin Elmo in panoramic adventures. In many ways, The Collected Adventures of Harold Hedd is a great primer for the future exploits of Harold Hedd and Elmo, but it also stands as a document of Rand Holmes\' fierce independence and anti-establishment nature during the dawn of the counterculture in Canada.

Anus-Clenching Adventure with Harold Hedd, aka Harold Hedd #2, came out in September of 1973, and is generally considered the best Canadian underground comic from the golden era. Without question, it\'s one of my all-time favorite undergrounds. It\'s one long Harold Hedd story, \"Wings Over Tijuana,\" a drug-smuggling adventure which is brilliantly written and illustrated. In a complex plot, Hedd and Elmo end up flying a 1942 WW2 bomber plane loaded with pot from Mexico to British Columbia; a dangerous mission with unexpected consequences.I have conservatively graded theThe Collected Adventures of Harold Heddat FN+ 6.5.Unlike most copies of this book,this copy was never folded! Due to its large size, it does have spine creases, but it is in exceptional condition all things considered with very little wear. I have conservatively graded the Harold Hedd #2 at VF- 7.5. The Collected Adventures of Harold Hedd is not bagged or boarded. Harold Hedd #2 is bagged and boarded. This set will ship in an new,18 x 12 x 1\"cardboard box with padding.No combined shipping for this odd-size item.
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