Helix Vol. VII No. 5 April 10, 1969: Paul Dorpat Color Cover "Pledge Your Allegiance" with Topless Women
Seattle: Helix, 1969. Paul Dorpat. First Printing. Tabloid Newspaper. Tabloid printed on newsprint measuring 11.5 x 15 inches. Pp. 24 including covers. Front and rear covers and centerfold printed in color. Slight age-toning to edges, else a bright, fresh copy. Very Good+. Item #6724 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 an acid-free backing.
A 1969 issue of the Seattle underground bi-weekly (that transitioned to a weekly later that year) with a poem by Bob Dylan, an article on the Oakland 7, an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Walt Crowley on the Anti-Ballistic Missile, a review of a John Mayall concert, etc.
Price: $30.00