Starhead Presents # 1

1st edition, 1986, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. Traditional comic format.

I believe this was my first nationally distributed comic, published during the start of the Great Black and White Glut of the 1980s.

50 copies included a hand drawn Morty Comix inside the front cover. The range was # 1641-1690.

A physical oddity: the cover is made of the same newsprint material as the guts.

This was later re-released by Starhead in 1992 under the title Morty the Dog in the Shadow of the Rainbow.

I'm also including the promotional material Starhead's Michael Dowers assembled for marketing to comic dealers.

The Life and Times of Morty the Dog / The Lives and Deaths of Morty the Dog

Consisting of reprints, some of them going back to a decade, Michael Dowers assembled this comic in 1992 under the Starhead Comix banner. He gathered this material from several different titles.

It was a 2-in-1 book, one of those flip-over reverse deals with two covers.

A bit of trivia:

I'm pretty sure I did not draw the logo for the Lives & Deaths cover.

The page with Morty continually dialing and being answered with a recorded message seems incomplete. But I can't quite place where the original appeared in order to look it up.

The skiis with ice cubes panel: I had a roommate in college who did this.