Lob & Pichard; Sean Kelly, Valerie Merchant (trans.)
 
Candice at Sea (First Edition)
 
New York: Heavy Metal Communications, 1977. First US Edition, softcover quarto, $3.95 cover price, 60pp, b/w throughout, color wrapper. Vintage erotic adventure comics, featuring the orphan Candice & her masked protector as they climb aboard a ship at sea, cigar-smoking villains, their sadist mistresses, B/D/S/M themes. From the collection of Andrew J. Offutt, author of science-fiction, fantasy, erotica, who collaborated w/ Eric Stanton ("Stantoons", "Blunder Broad" digests), wrote "Conan"-themed novels, debuted as a published writer in 1951, wrote 100s of erotic novels pseudonymously as John Cleve, Turk Winter, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, Opal Andrews. His "Spaceways" series is perhaps the ultimate epic of science fiction space travel and erotica. Good Plus, a few pp w/ Offutt's inked edits to illustrations, heavy foxing, corner creases, lean, rubbing. For mature, consenting audiences. International shipping at cost.