Spread some cheer this year, with comix from The Rip Off Press Mail Order Catalog No-Pictures Edition Stuff for sale December 2012 THE NO PICTURES VERSION OF THE RIP OFF PRESS MAIL ORDER CATALOG Need to see pictures of the items we sell? Visit our website! If you don't own a com- WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF ORDER PROBLEMS puter, go to your public library and somebody will be happy to help you log on: www. If there is any problem with your order, probably the quickest and most effective way to ripoffpress.com. After our previous website’s hosting company vanished without a trace deal with it is to send us an e-mail. That way you can get through to us at your conve- in August of 2012, we have not yet gotten online ordering enabled. But you can get a nience, and we will see your message within a few hours at a time when we have access better idea of what you want, then place a mail order from this product listing or from to all of our records. Our e-mail address is [email protected]. If you’re not yet the Adobe PDF format order form available as a download on our home page. one of the millions of people with access to e-mail, you can call us by phone. Please call 530 885-8183. If we’re not there to answer your call you can usually leave a message PLACING YOUR ORDER on our answering machine. You may also notify us of order problems by letter (P.O. Box 4686, Auburn CA 95604-4686). Sorry, we do not ship C.O.D.! Besides US checks or money orders, we accept Visa, Mastercard, or American Possible problem situations: Express. If mailing in your order you can use any sheet of paper. Start by writing Nondelivery: your name, shipping address, e-mail and /or telephone number. You must be over If your order has not arrived within two weeks of the time you placed it (allow 3 18 years of age and sign a statement to that effect, in order to order items with an weeks for processing time plus air delivery overseas), please advise us of the date your asterisk (*) after the title in the catalog. After filling in the above information: order was placed and what you ordered. If you have a cancelled check or your charge account was billed, please tell us the date of deposit. We may be unable to trace orders 1. Write the description (including ISSUE NUMBER on comix), price, quantity and shipped longer than 6 months previously, so don’t wait too long to report a missing total cost for each item ordered. To avoid credit memos on out-of-stock items order! when paying by check or money order, you may specify alternate selections. If Shipping Damage: you’re ordering one or more posters and don’t want them sent folded, don’t forget Please notify us of the date of delivery, your invoice number and what item(s) were dam- to order a poster tube. They cost $4.95 and you only need one per order. aged. Please hold onto the damaged merchandise in case the Post Office needs to see it. 2. Use a calculator to add up the merchandise total, and write it down. We’ll notify you of what’s being done. 3. Add 71/4% sales tax on the merchandise total, only if you live in Mis-Ships: California (new rate effective 7/1/11). If your order arrives with incorrect, missing or factory reject items please tell us 4. Add the charge for postage and handling for the amount of your mer- your invoice number and what the problem is. We’ll advise you what we’re going to do chandise total (see the chart below). If you are reordering an item that to fix the problem. 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Your account will be credited for the merchandise total of with your order, or write down your Visa, Mastercard, or AmEx account returned items less a 15% reshelving fee. Please note that we extend this service as a information (including the expiration date and your billing name & courtesy to our customers, and that returns cost us money. As a Mom 'n' Pop company address, if different from “Ship to”) to charge to your charge card (don’t we hope that return privileges will not be abused. forget to sign it). If phoning in your order (Charged to one of the aforementioned cards only): Call 530 Items with an asterisk (*) after the title 885-8183. Have your want list and your charge card handy. We’ll take it from there. are not for sale to minors. We are usually available to answer the phone in person from 7 to noon and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Pacific time, Monday through Friday. Weekend hours vary. You can also send us an order by email ([email protected]) and pay for it by Paypal. Ordering for Delivery Outside the U.S. Payment must be made in US Dollars. Checks or money orders must be payable through a U.S. bank, so charge cards are the preferred payment method. We ship via International Priority Mail, which generally takes a week or two to arrive. See other details below. Poster tubes sent outside the U.S. incur a US$20 postage surcharge due to shape-based postal rates. We will notify you if special situations require postage charges higher than stated. POSTAGE & HANDLING CHART - New rates effective 1/22/12 All orders are shipped via U.S. Mail (First Class Mail or Priority Mail, depending on size and weight). Merch. Total Inside the USA Canada & Mexico Elsewhere Worldwide Tier 1 $6.30 $14.00 $18.50 Under $60 Tier 2 $12.50 $35.00 $49.50 $60-$99.99 Tier 3 $16.50 $41.50 $72.00 $100 and up RIP OFF PRESS • P.O. BOX 4686 • AUBURN, CA 95604 •PHONE 530 885-8183 • e-mail: [email protected] TITLES IN STOCK (visit our web site - www.ripoffpress.com - for pictures & latest information) Update 12/1/2012 (Signed/Numbered) The lead story was Wonder Wart-Hog in “Epidemic.” COLLECtors’ ITEMS FABULOUS FURRY MORE BY This issue also featured the Freak Brothers, Dorman’s Over the past year or so we have cataloged and FREAK BROTHERS Doggie, Griffith Observatory, R. Diggs and Fat Freddy’s photographed our extensive collection of rare comix GILBERT SHELTON Cat. and related items, and are now offering them to you. ROROC.02Z ��������������������������������������������$100.00 Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers have Underground Comix legend Gilbert Shelton has pro- You may also purchase a signed, sealed, and dated ruled the Underground Comix scene since their first duced other hilarious comix in addition to the better- Rip Off Comix # 3 Front Cover Digital Art Print Certificate of Provenance stating that the item you pur- appearance more than 35 years ago. All comix issues known Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat. Check out (Signed/Numbered) chased is from the personal collection of Rip Off Press are current editions in black and white. Some issues his latest series--Not Quite Dead. Wonder Wart-Hog meets himself in “Return from co-founder Fred Todd. Just click the checkbox before are now out of print. We also have the trade paperback adding your item to the cart. Also, don’t miss the col- Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus Book the Planet of the Pigs” in this issue’s center panel. collection, which includes all of the Freak Brothers Also starring the Freak Brothers, Dealer McDope, Fat lectible Rip Off Comix Cover Art Prints being offered on material ever published. Finally, all the Fat Freddy’s Cat material from over their own page. 40 years of strips, collected in a high quality trade Freddy’s Cat and Gilbert Shelton’s Advanced Motoring Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus Book paperback.! 368 pages of outrageous feline antics, Tips, among others. 2 (Two) * Now back in stock. Over 620 pages of Freak Brothers guest-starring The Obese One and his friends. In black ROROC.03Z ��������������������������������������������$100.00 Wilson, cover price .75 Grade: Fine and Fat Freddy’s Cat in one big fat paperback book. and white, with comix covers and bonus material in two Rip Off Comix # 4 Front Cover Digital Art Print GTRF1163 �������������������������������������������������$0.00 Includes the contents of Freak Brothers comix issues full color sections on glossy stock. (Signed/Numbered) 3-D Bullwinkle and Rocky #1 0-13, with all of the comix that were originally in color HFFFC.1B �������������������������������������������������$29.99 Wonder Wart-Hog became a pro football player in the in full color on coated stock.