{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-phoebe-zeit-geist-first-printing-hardcover-74142","title":"The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist - First Printing Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1968, an incredibly sharp copy of the scarce first printing\/first hardcover printing of this counter culture comic strip. The book itself is as new in bright azure blue boards and white pages. The dustjacket edges are somewhat wrinkled and worn, but without tears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All 13 zany episodes as they originally appeared in the Evergreen Review.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Wikipedia:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\"The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist\" was a comics series written by Michael O'Donoghue and drawn by Frank Springer. From January 1965, it was serialized in the magazine Evergreen Review, and later published in book form as a Grove Press hardcover in 1968 and trade paperback in 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe comic detailed the adventures of debutante Phoebe Zeit-Geist as she was variously kidnapped and rescued by a series of bizarre characters, such as Nazis, Chinese foot fetishists, and lesbian assassins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eDoonesbury comic-strip creator Garry Trudeau cited the strip as an early inspiration, saying, \"[A] very heavy influence was a serial in the Sixties called 'Phoebe Zeitgeist'. . . . It was an absolutely brilliant, deadpan send-up of adventure comics, but with a very edgy modernist kind of approach. To this day, I hold virtually every panel in my brain. It's very hard not to steal from it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52366790066474,"sku":"74142","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2879\/4922\/files\/2E60AC8D-03EA-4C57-B77C-1833878F0FB1.jpg?v=1787963860","url":"https:\/\/stuartngbooks.com\/products\/the-adventures-of-phoebe-zeit-geist-first-printing-hardcover-74142","provider":"Stuart Ng Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}