*Undergrounds: One of the earliest crossovers between underground comics and the mass media, R. Crumb’s Fritz the Cat (as this tabloid-sized one-shot is officially entitled) was released in 1969 by Ballantyne Books, presenting Crumb’s collected saga of Fritz – waster, lecher and con-man extraordinaire – to a wider audience, and laying the ground for the 1972 animated movie. Despite many copies having been printed, the mass-market failure of the venture, which was returned to the publisher and destroyed in bulk, means that this is a rarity today. This copy is a nice VG, sound and clean, offered at £50.