Triple Threat: Identify These Comics

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I haven’t been able to find any of these based on the very few clues my sluggard memory vaguely retains. Perhaps one or more of you may be able to help. Be warned that adult themes ensue, possibly suggesting origins in underground comics.

  1. Black and white comic (almost 100% certain). Encountered probably sometime in the 1970s, but it may yet hail from the 1960s originally. Very, very outside chance I read it in the 1980s, but dead bang sure it’s not from later than that. Narrating character (?) was trenchcoat-wearing, long-haired character, possibly meant to be in the anti-hero mold. Also, an older woman and a toddler whose body was completely wrapped in bandages, much like a mummy. Soon enough, toddler has somehow gotten loose from its bounds, woman shrieks something about being only asleep for a moment, and then is tossed out a window by the kid. Toddler pulls a shuriken from its diaper and throws it into someone’s forehead. (I’m failing to remember some details that move the story from point to point, so forgive the disjointedness) I thought the story was on a train, or possibly a subway car, but later there’s a few rows of connected seats, such as in an airport terminal, then later there’s mention of taking a victim upstairs to a room.

Okay, so toddler has the crowd at bay with his shurikens (“It’s star time!”), strutting about, then announces he’d like to suck the breasts of some poor random woman. Nobody can stop him without a shuriken in the forehead, and the anti-hero doesn’t even try. Toddler assaults her thusly for an extended time, then I forget what happens (toddler goes to sleep? runs off?). Poor victim has had one of her nipples sucked clean off (as announced by someone), then I think the anti-hero takes said victim upstairs ( to some stateroom? Are they on a ship? ferry?).

  1. Much fewer details for this one. Black and white, and the same time details as #1 above. Much shorter story, too, maybe just a couple pages. Could be from the same source as #1 (magazine/comic of several stories). Woman is tied up (to a stake?) by a villain, then a rough-looking character (long hair, beard, maybe ragged clothing–the drawing in this story is rather crude and simplistic, I think). comes along and saves her, dealing with the villain in some manner. He then frees her from her restraints, saying (almost exactly or very like this) “Away with the ropes! Away with the gag! Away with the clothes that hide those tits!” Maybe even from the same source as #1; I vaguely recall encountering these two in roughly the same short span of time.

  2. This one was definitely from a different time period. I think this one I may have comes across in the 1980s, middle or late, with a small chance of being from the early 1990s. Magazine/comic of stories centered around guns (a one-shot?). Some or all of the stories may have been in color. I think one story featured two women driving around (in a convertible?) in the American Southwest (?), inevitably using high-powered weapons in their random encounters (with boorish men? low-lifes?). Another featured anthropomorphic animals (including a rabbit standing upright, wearing overalls (?)), possibly working in a warehouse or the back of some store–the rabbit-guy was moving something with a dolly. The two were talking about the rabbit’s girlfriend in some bar/saloon (story seemed set in modern times, tho, in a small town) being hit on by the tough guy in the town. Rabbit’s boss (?) affirmed that he had a firearm of some type in the office, but that rabbit-guy needed to leave tough-guy alone. Rabbit-guy dreams of taking the gun and having a showdown with tough-guy, but promises his boss that he won’t. Story ends, I think, with rabbit-guy then running off to get the gun.

The crude nature of the first two is what makes me think underground comics, of which I think I might have had access to from a friend’s older brother–this time period for me was in my early teens (born in 1960). The third I believe I encountered from a friend who owned a magazine/comic store in the mid-to-late '80s. At any rate, hopefully someone can provide more clues on one or more of these, or even positive identification outright. The SDMB’s track record for such might be unbeaten! Thank you for making it this far, and thank you to anyone who can help!

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Could it be something from Heavy Metal?

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Okay, I’m not sure of any of those, but I’m willing to take the hardship of re-reading all my old Heavy Metal magazines, my Gilbert Shelton collection, my Robert Crumb, my Rick Griffin, Trina Robbins… even my Bodè, in an effort to find these comics.

I’ve stocked some “supplies” and will undertake this arduous task posthaste!

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The third one almost sounds like Tank Girl, but then again, there were a lot of obscure bunny rabbits running around indie comics in the late 1980’s.

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I, too, thought of Heavy Metal first thing, Enola Straight, but I lack a source for searching. I also thought of National Lampoon, either the magazine or one of its collections of comics, but again lack a source. Ditto for 1984, which later changed its name to 1994. Then there’re the many magazines from Warren Publishing. Ultimately, I guess I’m gonna have to lay out money for back issues just to get these mental itches scratched, but it won’t really be money wasted. :o

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#1 is very much like a story in National Lampoon, I don’t clearly recall if it was in comic form or just an illustrated text.

#2 also reminds of a National Lampoon comic. Kind of parody of WWII era Asian intrigue comics.

#3 maybe Tank Girl as already mentioned.

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first one is definitely from National Lampoon, mid to late 70’s I’d say. I recall it vividly, definitely not to my taste but weirdly compelling. Happens on an airplane, I think. Baby mutters “good draw” after nursing. Don’t know why I remember that. Ugh.

can’t help with the rest.