Presented today is Big Apple Comix curated and edited by Flo Steinberg and was published in 1975. Not quite an underground comic, not quite a mainstream comic. It existed in that limbo called ground-level comics that Mike Friedrich of Star*Reach fame coined.
Flo Steinberg was known by many Marvel Comics fans in the 60s as the receptionist at Marvel. She left Marvel in the late 60s and became aware of the Underground Comix movement when she moved to San Francisco briefly. She soon returned to New York and began working for Warren Publishings mail order division, Captains Company.
It was during this time she began gathering material for her own comic, Big Apple Comix. She drew on her connections within the industry and came up with quite the roster of talent. Below you will see the likes of Neal Adams, Larry Hama, Mike Ploog, Alan Weiss, Herb Trimpe, Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson, and the great Wally Wood, who takes the piss out of his own classic 1950s EC story, My World.
While it didn't set the world on fire, it's a great snapshot of mainstream talent at the time stretching themselves a bit. If only a bit.
