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1969. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 20pp. Large folio, folded in half. The Georgia Straight was founded and first published in 1967 as an underground, counter-culture newspaper and challenged conformity and authority. Tens of thousands of people think the GS is provocative, funny, thoughtful, courageous, honest, and joyous. Then there are those who, whether or not they've read a copy, think it to be obscene, immoral, vulgar, and subversive. The editor was arrested on the day after the Straight's office opened, and began what is one of the most blatant and abusive attempts at censorship in Canadian history. The paper was designated Member, Anarchist Press Movement. This issue focuses on marijuana. Light smudging, water stains; all text is clean and legible. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Tabloid-sized newspaper (17 inches [43 cm] tall), pp. 19, (20), consisting of 5 sheets folded in half, illustrated in B&W and color throughout. Slightly toned with wear to spine, some creasing and centerline fold, front cover and one interior leaf with a three inch tear at fore-edge. Includes cover art and a four page illustrated spread on Peter "Zipp" Almasy, an illustrator who appeared in Yellow Dog Comics with - and had a similar style to - Robert Crumb. Almasy also drew the cartoon that resulted in the Georgia Straight's first obsenity conviction. "The Georgia Straight was created in May 1967 as an antiestablishment alternative to the conservative daily newspapers. And its arrival created an uproar. It was raided and fined by the Vancouver police for publishing obscenities, banned from distribution, and its founder, poet and UBC math student Dan McLeod, was thrown in jail." straight com.…