''Best Buy Comics'' is a one-shot

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Robert Crumb Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contem ...

and Aline Kominsky (later Crumb), published by

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in 1979. All the stories in the book except one were first published by ''

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''.''Best Buy Comics'' indicia: "''Best Buy Comics'', February 1979 — copyright c 1977, 1978, 1979 by R. Crumb. All stories and strips first published in ''

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'', except 'Aline and Bob Go To the Whole Earth Jamboree', which was rejected by the magazine and appears here for the first time. Published by

— 353 Frederick St., San Francisco, California, 94117". ''Best Buy Comics'' tackles more "serious" subjects than typical Crumb or others

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. Subjects include the

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program, the eventual fate of humanity, attitudes toward life, death, nuclear war, and historical fiction set at the dawn of the Jazz Age. ''Best Buy Comics'' was the last title published by

. It was republished in 1988 by

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."Best Buy Comics" entry
Grand Comics Database. Accessed Oct. 3, 2016.

* An unnamed page about melting in front of a television * "R. Crumb's Modern Dance Workshop" * ''Space Day Symposium'' " * "The Goose and the Gander were Talking one Night" * "The Nerds" * "Kansas City Frank Melrose in Pass the Jug" * "These Kids Today" * "Little Joe in Morbid Preoccupations" * "R. Crumb's Modern Dance Workshop in Purely Esthetic Experience" * "Those Little Bears We Love so Much" * "The Final Solution, Read it and Weep" * "Mister Nostalgia" * "It's a Hup Ho World" * "Professor Wanowsky on Welfare" * "Kiwi" * "Hapy Hour Comics" * "Maybe We'll End Like This" * "Aline and Bob Go To the Whole Earth Jamboree" — original story by Crumb and Komisky not previously published

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