The Haight Ashbury Maverick: Hard Core? [Unnumbered Issue]
The Haight Ashbury Maverick
"Wasn't it remarkable when good, honest, white Americans discovered that oftimes the police are brutal?"
San Francisco: The Haight Publishing Company, [1968]. Unbound newsprint, tabloid, 15 x 11-1/2 in. 15, [1]pp., illus., with covers and centerfold in color. Horizontal fold crease; light foxing and rubbing to front cover; toned leaves. Very good.
Hippie rag whose first editor (unmentioned here) was gay rights pioneer Guy Strait (1920-1987). This title succeeds/continues Maverick and precedes The Haight Ashbury Tribune. Contents a mix of drawings, political cartoons, poems (including "Sith Song" by Steve Levine), personal ads. With two political articles, "Chicago Cops" and "The Demise of P&F as an Electoral Party." Color centerfold depicts a Chinese dragon. N.B. This issue shares front cover art with one labeled Vol. 2, No. 1, though contents do not seem to match.
