BARBARELLA

Author: Forest, Jean-Clause
Title: BARBARELLA
Publication: New York: Forest Grove Press, 1966
Edition: First American Edition

Description: Hardcover. Small folio, 12.75 in. x 9.7 in. Each of eight chapters separately paginated. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Sunning to spine; moisture stains to front board. Nudged corners; sllight warp to boards. Sticker scar to top of front free endpaper. Spine and hinges tight; interior pages of graphic art in very good plus condition. Good.

Jean-Claude Forest created the character of Barbarella for serialization in the French V Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Éric Losfeld published these strips as a stand-alone book titled Barbarella. The book caused a scandal and became known as the first "adult" (erotic) comic book, though American pornographic comic books known as "Tijuana bibles" had long predated it. For her creator, the character embodied the modern, emancipated woman in the era of sexual liberation, and as a result, this literary work has come to be associated with the mid-20th century sexual revolution. Jane Fonda's role as BArbarella in the 1968 movie cemented the iconic role of the character.

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