[Underground newspapers. California] Berkeley Barb
Collection of 86 issues from 1970-75. Var. nos. publ. between no. 264 (vol. 11, no. 9, Sept. 1970) and no. 528 (Sept./ Oct. 1975).
Browned, some sm. tears, generally in good condition. The Berkeley Barb was a weekly underground newspaper publ. in Berkeley, California, from 1965 to 1980. It was one of the first and most influential counterculture newspapers, covering such subjects as the anti-war movement, the Black Panthers, the Civil Rights Movement as well as the social changes advocated by youth culture. It also provided a medium for the underground comic artists Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton and Bill Griffith. (total 86)