ORACLE COMIX No. 1

ORACLE COMIX No. 1

24pp half-legal digest w Color Covers
Published by Thru Black Holes Comix Productions
Copyright © 1980 by Michael Roden
1st Printing - 800 copies (60 lb. Paper stock).

cover untitled collage (Oracle Comix)

page 2 untitled drawing

pages 3-5 Psychedelic Graphics

Cool psychedelic fantasy narrative with some wonderfully challenging cosmic-philosophical observations: "Life became so complex that no one could make it through Alive in the end!"

pages 6-7 Gabo Gabo

Cool two-page drawing (one page in positive, the other in reversed negative) of a weird Lovecraftian creature.

page 8 Tropic Taboo

One-page story featuring the sea serpent Gabo-Gabo the Mighty. "The land is rich in magic, but an evil underlies all."

pages 9-10 Gone Bugs/Gone Bugs Too

Two pages of wordless insect paranoia done entirely with collage.

pages 11-12 Graveyard Shift

Spooky cosmic horror story about Vault 13 "where evil Boogeymen spend a Hellish eternity locked in the bowels of the Earth." Mysterious script and atmospheric art make for an effective tale of lurking horror. Recommended.

pages 13-15 The Blimp/Star Clown Swallows the Blimp!

Isn't that a rather well-known mouse in the last panel? Two panels from page 14 were issued as cool rubber stamp images by the Gumbo Rubber Stamp Works (see THE SECOND MASTER GUMBO RUBBER STAMP CATALOG for details).

pages 16-18 Amon Duul II

This installment of a two-part tribute to the Space Music Group Amon Duul features a cosmic fantasy collaboration with FRODO and includes the first mention of the Nightmare District (which later became its own book).

pages 19-20 Telephonecomplex?

This follow-up to the above tale is notable for wonderfully psychedelic art and a spaced-out script: "Amon Duul lives on in the hearts of those with expanded minds and Om in their eyes." The third panel on page 19 became a rubber stamp (see THE SECOND MASTER GUMBO RUBBER STAMP CATALOG for details).

pages 21-22 Eloy Land

Another Space Music tribute (see CLUSTER-LAND for the full treatment). The final panel includes a cool bit of self-referential dialogue: "We thought 'Oracle' was quite bizarre."

page 23 Frogspawn

Mark Trail meets EC Comics in this interesting approach to Biology 101.

page 24 untitled drawing by S. FOX (with colors by MICHAEL RODEN)

History:
Page posted to online MICHAEL RODEN CATALOG 8-26-03.