Content: Thrilling Murder Comics cover. Ad for Grateful Dead ‘Skull & Roses’ LP. Pregnant nature photo. ‘Letter From Our Founder’ by Richard Neville.
‘Somerset Maugham in Morocco’ by Jim Anderson. ‘Gays Doctor Reuben’ gay politics by Andrew Lumsden + Harold Head cartoon. Film ad for Drive He Said.
‘Trouble Down at t‘ Millgarth’ – police crime in Leeds by Roger Hutchinson. Traffic ad. ‘Goodbye Gene’ Gene Vincent/Wonder Woman montage.
‘Find the Barmaid of the Year’ - join the dots. William Stok graphic. Frendz ad. STYNG ad. New Riders of the Purple Sage ad.
‘Concrete Jungle Karma’ – Pat Meyer on communes. ‘Holy Joe’ – John Rosen interviews a junky ex-GI in Saigon + ‘Gospel Literature’ cartoon strip.
Centrespread running mutant graphic. Ad for Yoko Ono ‘Mrs Lennon’/Fly. ‘Consider the Lilies’ – Alan Watts on hippies. Ad for the Guardian. 2p ‘Urban Paranoia’ cartoon.
OZ mail order. Full page ad for Frank Zappa LPs. Manifesto of the Youth Action Kommittee. Open letter to John & Yoko. White Panther Party UK addresses.
Gay Liberation Front. Another ad for Yoko Ono’s Fly. Tonto’s Expanding Head Band ad. Doctor J advice. ‘Father Bruce’ – Lenny Bruce by Steve Mann.
‘Suzie Slumgodess’ - Jonathon Green on radical politics + graphics. Review of Bob Dylan’s Tarantula and live performance of Zappa’s 2001(?) Motels.
‘Brainrape’ – techno horror by Alf Moorcraft. ‘Sweet Cousin Cocaine’ 2p advice on cocaine + graphic by Roland Komdorffer.
LP reviews: The Who, Firesign Theatre (+graphic), Fanny, Tonto’s Expanding Headband. ‘The Locust Sang’ – Chris Rowley on consumption & ecology. Full page Who ad.
Back cover black soldiers/child bride montage by Linda S. Connor.
Edited by Richard Neville, and co-edited by Jim Anderson, Felix Dennis and Roger Hutchinson, the magazine was initially produced in a basement in Notting Hill gate and rose to fame when it became subject to the longest obscenity trial in British Legal history in 1971.
The three editors were subject to numerous police raids and pleaded guilty to the charges. They were sentenced to harsh jail terms, although were eventually acquitted on appeal. The magazine’s use of striking psychedelic artworks and printing techniques such as fold-out posters, metallic foils and new fluorescent inks were innovative at the time.
Printing was only carried out in black and white when the funds could not be raised for the more-expensive colour. The magazine was also popular for its biting satire on controversial subjects such as sex, drugs, homosexuality, politics and war.
Covers were produced predominantly by Martin Sharp, cartoons by Robert Crumb, and issues included radical feminist manifestos by Germaine Greer.
As one of the former Art Directors Jim Anderson wrote: Everything the establishment hated was in Oz.
The magazine ceased publication in November 1973 due to a £20,000 debt.
Scan is of the actual book you will receive.