When comix collector Lynn Hansen died in April 1995 he left behind a massive collection of recordings, books, videos, etc. related to his other collector interest-- the Beatles. Lynn had, save for one 45 single, everything the Beatles commercially recorded and produced. He also had a ton of bootlegs.
Lynn's father, Ralph Hansen, asked for suggestions on what to do with the Beatles material. My advice was to have it join Lynn's comix collection as part of the Washington State University Library. Ralph and I are both librarians so the idea made perfect sense to us.
Two years later WSU held an exhibit of some of Lynn's Beatles collection. This 25 page book is nice little walk through the albums.
The cover was also distributed as a poster. The image was originally drawn as the cover for Number 9, a book Lynn had written about the Paul McCartney death hoax. Ralph and I published it in late 1995. Our introductions to the WSU booklet had also originally appeared in Number 9.
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