STUCK RUBBER BABY HARDCOVER

Published in June, 2010. This is a First Printing of Second Edition, published by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics. (The First Edition was published by Paradox Press in 1995). Written & illustrated by Howard Cruse. 224 pages in black & white. Measures 7” x 9 1/4” Original retail was $24.99.

From a solicitation description: “The groundbreaking, award-winning semi autobiographical graphic novel returns in a new 15th anniversary edition featuring an introduction by Alison Bechdel, award-winning author of Fun Home.

In the 1960s American South, a young gas-station attendant named Toland Polk is rejected from the Army draft for admitting "homosexual tendencies," and falls in with a close-knit group of young locals yearning to break from the conformity of their hometown through civil rights activism, folk music and upstart communality of race-mixing, gay-friendly nightclubs.

Toland's story is both deeply personal and epic in scope, as his search for identity plays out against the brutal fight over segregation, an unplanned pregnancy and small-town bigotry, aided by an unforgettable supporting cast.

NOTE: "A remarkable achievement, a story so richly drawn - in both senses of the word - that it will pull you, headlong, into a bottomless world of hopes, fears, dreams and the all-too-real prejudice witnessed by its author." - THE NEW YORK TIMESNOTE:

"Cruse's visceral, visual account of America's recent past contributes with grace and force to what we can only continue to hope is history's bend toward justice." - ALISON BECHDEL, from her introduction.”

Condition is Near Mint or better. New & comes still sealed in its original shrink wrap. Please see photos.

Will be shipped in a hard cardboard mailer via USPS Media Mail.