Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930's-1950's by Spiegelman, Art; Merkin, Richard; Adelman, Bob; Kripke, Madeline - 1997

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. -----The scan you see is the book you get. White boards with red and black design and lettering, 160 pages, filled with b & w illustrations, red end papers, no names, small remainder mark on bottom edge, tight square and clean, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with a 1" closed tear front flap at top, now in Mylar. "As wry & raunchy as the subject it celebrates, this inspired volume introduces a new generation to the Tijuana Bibles, underground comic art from the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's devoted to making sexual mockery of every sacred cow in the pasture. Folk art with a subversive edge, the Bibles are unveiled here with a hundred life-sized reproductions." Contents inlcude: Intro Essay "Those Dirty Little Comics" by Art Spiegelman / "The Lingo of the Tijuana Bibles" by Madeline Kripke / See You in the Funny Pages / Our Fellow Americans: Heebs, Wopps, Traveling Salesmen, and the Farmer's Daughter / Theres's No Bizness Like Show Bizness! / Gun Molls, Heavyweights, and Assorted Tyrants / Odds 'n' Ends; or, Hot Nuts and Wild Gooses / "The Wide Stylistic Range of the Tijuana Bibles" by Richard Merkin / The Demise of the Tijuana Bibles / Talking Dirty: "The Vocabulary of the Tijuana Bibles by Madeline Kripke / "Those Naughty End Pages" by Richard Merkin / Annotated Bibliography by Madeline Kripke (What follows is a partial listing of books and articles containing info about the Tijuana Bibles. Many (but not all) that are out of print, difficult to find, and unavailable in libaries have been exculded.) / List of Titles and Index of Subjects Parodied. Check out the scans. . First Edition Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.