Helix Vol. V No. 7 November 27, 1968: A Thursday in November LBJ-Nixon-Safeco Eye cover. Crowley automobile progress cartoon, Moody Blues at Eagles ad
Seattle: Helix, 1968. Walt Crowley, Zac Reisner. First Printing. Tabloid Newspaper. Tabloid printed on newsprint measuring 11.5 x 16 inches. Pp. 16. Front and rear covers printed in color. Slight age-toning to edges, else a bright, well preserved copy. Very Good. Item #6688 In late spring 1967, Helix joined a burgeoning underground press then including groundbreaking alternative papers the East Village Other, the Los Angeles Free Press, the Fifth Estate and the Berkeley Barb. Founded by Paul Sawyer, Paul Dorpat and Lorenzo Milam, it sprang from their intellectual fervor at the Free University, an alternative thinktank they also founded. Eventually star-illustrator Walt Crowley assumed editorship. A pebble in the shoe of Seattle establishment, the "hip rag" brought attention to civic injustice by rallying its youthful readership to activism. The apogee of that effort followed the 1970 killing of students at Kent State: over the course of May 5-8, Helix organized protests that blocked US Interstate 5 while marching between the University District and rallies at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. This issue is housed in a removable, clear sleeve with acid-free backing.
An issue of the Seattle underground bi-weekly (that transitioned to a weekly in September 1969) with center spread photos by Hiro Moriyasu, article on the underground railroad to Canada, cartoons from Cunnick/Reisner and M. Torson, ads for the Crazy World of Arthur Brown at the Arena and Jeff Beck at Eagles.
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