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Audio CD. Condition: Gut. Zustand: Hülle etwas berieben, insgesamt mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren /// Versand gratis Innerhalb Deutschlands - Portofrei in Deutschland- ab 20 Euro mit Post ID - Gratisversand deutschlandweit innerhalb Deutschlands gratis Versand -Versandkostenfrei innerhalb Deutschlands /// Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 82.

First Edition. Dunker, Thomas W., and Robert M. Dunker. Horseshit: The Offensive Review. Archive of the complete four-issue run of the underground countercultural magazine published in Hermosa Beach, California between 1965 and 1969. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode, the material reflects the confrontational aesthetics, anti-authoritarian politics, and underground publishing culture associated with the American counterculture and antiwar movements of the 1960s. Produced independently by brothers Thomas and Robert Dunker, both former military servicemen, the publication combined explicit satire, surrealist illustration, obscenity-driven provocation, and anti-establishment commentary directed against militarism, censorship, organized religion, and middle-class social conventions. The magazine provides insight into the underground press networks that emerged alongside the Vietnam War era counterculture, illustrating how independent publishers used inexpensive print formats and deliberately transgressive content to challenge state authority, conventional morality, and mainstream media culture. Dunker, Thomas W., and Robert M. Dunker. Horseshit: The Offensive Review. Hermosa Beach, CA: Gauntlet Press / Scum Publishing Company, 1965-1969. Complete archive of four issues. First editions. Saddle-stapled in illustrated pictorial wrappers. Each issue measures approximately 11 x 8.5 inches. Written primarily by Thomas Dunker and illustrated by Robert Dunker, the publication is visually dominated by stark black-and-white artwork depicting grotesque caricatures, militarized violence, sexual imagery, and absurdist social satire. Issue No. 1 prominently features a cover illustration of a U.S. Army soldier holding a rifle in one hand and a dead infant in the other beneath the caption "ATTACK!" Interior contents throughout the run include surrealist cartoons, explicit erotic drawings, satirical essays, poems, mock dialogues, and antiwar commentary rendered in deliberately chaotic layouts associated with underground comix aesthetics. The inaugural issue opens with "On Naming the Magazine," a meta-fictional dialogue proposing intentionally offensive titles including "The Diarrhea of Anne Frank," illustrating the publication's strategy of taboo violation and shock-based satire. Additional material includes "The Angled Banana," an absurdist parody of sexual manuals and recurring attacks on political institutions, organized religion, censorship regimes, and military culture. The publication's notoriety resulted in legal controversy, including the 1968 arrest of Berkeley bookseller Moe Moskowitz for distributing the magazine. The title additionally achieved underground cultural visibility through a reference by Frank Zappa in the song "German Lunch." The archive documents a particularly confrontational strain of the American underground press movement that emerged during the Vietnam War era alongside antiwar activism, psychedelic culture, sexual liberation movements, and expanding obscenity debates. Unlike more commercially visible countercultural newspapers, Horseshit embraced aggressively transgressive humor and graphic provocation as central editorial strategies, situating the publication within broader struggles over censorship, free expression, and the legal limits of underground publishing during the 1960s. Particularly notable is the combination of militarized imagery and anti-authoritarian critique produced by former servicemen during the escalation of the Vietnam War. Minor toning and light handling wear throughout with slight foxing to the cover of No. 4; staple bindings secure and interiors clean. Overall very good condition. A scarce and visually striking complete archive from the radical edge of the American underground press movement.