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Butler, Pennsylvania

Morty Comix # 2621

Morty Comix # 2621 was placed in an empty display case attached to a gas pump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Residents of the western portion of the Keystone State can rest easy knowing this was the last Morty Comix I placed in a furtive manner in their part of the world (which I fell in love with, by the way). There is one more Pennsylvania-distributed Morty Comix to come, but it was proudly drawn in the open.

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A very large mask by Buzz Buzzizyk on display in a private home, Butler, Pennsylvania

Postcard - Berkeley, California

"Stadium, University of California Berkeley"

1920s-1940s

Apparently the stadium was built directly over a big earthquake fault. My cousins always warned me never to sit on the west side of the stadium if I ever went there for a game because I could wind up in the Pacific Ocean. 

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Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2620

Morty Comix # 2620 was drawn on the reverse side of a business card and presented to Tom Rehm in Butler, Pennsylvania. Here he is pictured expressing his joy by wrapping his cranium in a "freaked out in a moon age daydream" poster.

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Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh

Postcard - Tucson, Arizona

"The main patio of The Lodge On The Desert ... one of the many attractive resort hotels in Tucson, Arizona."

1950s is my guess.

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Morty Comix # 2619

Morty Comix # 2619 was placed behind a clock in a home in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Door to Emil Winter's Egyptian tomb

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh

Postcard - Tucson, Arizona

"Metropolitan Tucson, Arizona, as it appears from the peak of 'A' Mountain."

1950s?

For awhile, up to 1985 or 1986, this town was home to Dale Luciano and Dada Gumbo Press. Some of my favorite jam titles were published here.

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Emil Winter's Egyptian tomb

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh

Jonah and the Wail

From the White Salmon Enterprise, January 21, 1916. The town of White Salmon, Washington is on the Columbia River, across from Hood River, Oregon.

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Somehow I find it a bit disturbing to see a tomb so locked and fortified, but then my hosts told me the film Night of the Living Dead was filmed in nearby Butler County so suddenly this made sense.

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh

Worker Poet Covers Obscuro Bezango

Our old friend Mike Hill has some coverage of the Obscuro Bezango show, including a few unusual photos:


Check it out at this link http://workerpoet.blogspot.com/

 

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Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2618

Morty Comix # 2618 was slipped into a book by B. Kliban in the room where I stayed in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Handprint of ... ? at Allegheny Cemetery

Pittsburgh

Postcard - Phoenix, Arizona

"Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona. The most modern, fully-equipped and luxurious coliseum and convention center in the entire Southwest is focal point of the 80-acre Arizona State Fairgrounds. Beautifully equipped and decorated, it seats over 14,000 and hosts conventions, sporting events, exhibits, trade shows, theatrical productions and concerts."

Late 1960s?

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Quite possibly the most useless bike lock ever

Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2617

Morty Comix # 2617 (which has already been discovered, I'm informed) was hidden in a hat in a cabin in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Somehow I lost a couple of the shots documenting this event.

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Pittsburgh

Postcard - Phoenix, Arizona

"North Central Highrise Complex, Phoenix, Arizona. Viewing from the left: Executive Towers Apartments, Del Webb's Towne House, Del Webb Office Building, Guarantee Bank, and the Financial Center. The two circular satellites adjacent to the Financial Center are the Pioneer and Home Savings Banks. Picturesque Squaw Peak looms on the horizon."

I'm guessing 2nd half of the 1960s. Squaw Peak was renamed Piestewa Peak in 2003.

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Cemetery entrance, Pittsburgh

Favorite Movie Quotes: Killing Zoe

"If you do it, it will make you feel as though the rest of the world is in a bubble of glass and you are rubbing against it like a bad windshield wiper."

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Sacred Heart of Jesus Store

Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2616

Oh, the cards that we are dealt by Fate. Hey, I think I drew an entire comic on that premise, Cranium Frenzy # 9 back in 1998.

Anyway, Morty Comix # 2616 was folded up into a little square and squeezed into a box of playing cards at a home in Butler, Pennsylvania. Three other people were in the room as I performed this task but I managed to pull it off as my greatest card trick.

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In the display window of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Store, Pittsburgh

Postcard - Phoenix, Arizona

"Aerial View of Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. The Capitol of Arizona, Phoenix with a population of approx. 350,000 is a desert metropolis in the center of the fertile Salt River Valley. World famous as a winter resort. Phoenix also is prominent in the supply of citrus and produce."

If the population estimate is correct, this postcard dates back to the 1950s.