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Bogeyman #3
Company & Sons 1970
Jack Jackson - Jaxon
Greg Irons
Rick Griffin
S. Clay Wilson
Rory Hayes
Jay Lynch
Spain Rodriguez
Underground Comix
Extremely Rare!
Excellent Condition! Minimal Wear for 50 years old! Couple small creases at top of cover. See pics!
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Bogeyman is an early underground series spawned from the unique mind of Rory Hayes, enabled by the founder of San Francisco Comic Book Company (and passionate fan of EC Comics), Gary Arlington. On the surface, the series is as Jay Kennedy described, \"Horror comix in an EC Comics tradition.\" But as any issue of Bogeyman will attest, Rory\'s illustrations are quite crude compared to the EC masters, and most of his stories are juvenile nightmares that barely frighten. The first issue is all Hayes, while the next two issues brought in several guest artists who added extra spook to the series, but Bogeyman always remained Rory Hayes\' title (he even edited the second issue).
Hayes has a fascinating history dating from his childhood, which is chronicled by his older brother Geoffrey in the 2008 book compilation of Rory\'s best work, Where Demented Wented (also summarized in Geoffrey\'s magazine article about Rory). Bogeyman #1 was Rory Hayes first professional comic book, which he produced at the age of 18 after befriending Gary Arlington while hanging around Arlington\'s shop in San Francisco. After Bogeyman launched, Hayes became a frequent presence in the underground scene, contributing to Bijou Funnies, Fits, Radical America Komiks, San Francisco Comic Book, Insect Fear and Slow Death.
Hayes most notorious comic work was his one-man smut manifesto, Cunt Comics. But Hayes violent porn comics were produced more as a favor to other people than as an area of obsession for Hayes, at least at the beginning. After he contributed some smut comics to Snatch Comics #2 in late 1968, Hayes did go through a phase where he drew nothing but naked bodies, exploding blood and other spurting body fluids. But this phase may also have been influenced by the acid and speed Hayes was getting into (and would never get out of), which steered his artwork into darker and more bizarre themes. As Geoffrey put it, \"Drugs seemed to liberate Rory, to let him unleash his demons full force.\"
But the first issue of Bogeyman came before the drugs and before Hayes began working on Cunt Comics. Bogeyman #1 demonstrates that if Hayes had an area of obsession in the field of comics, it was horror comics, a theme that dominated his early professional work. Geoffrey states that \"Bogeyman #1 was a continuation of what Rory had been doing as a teenager, albeit rather more gruesome. It was less an underground comic than a retro take on old horror comics, but it got him noticed.... Only with Bogeyman did Rory even start thinking of himself as an artist, of drawing as more than just a hobby.\"
As the three issues of Bogeyman amply illustrate, Hayes may not have been a representational draftsman, but his expertise with page and panel composition is well developed (bear in mind that his brother Geoffrey produced at least one and possibly more unattributed stories that were published in the second and third issues). Rory Hayes also has no compunction for happy endings or surviving protagonists, as his teddy bear character often meets a fatal destiny. At times, the teddy bear appears to embody Hayes as a child who has recurring nightmares, which always end just as he is about to die.
I\'m betting that Geoffrey Hayes would agree that underground comics changed Rory more than Rory changed underground comics. He was a unique artist and few, if any, attempted to imitate his style back in the early \'70s. As Geoffrey put it, \"Rory\'s work is and always will be his own. Bypassing his conscious mind, it arrives directly from some deep place onto the page, unvarnished and unapologetic.\" Due in part to that inimitable quality and straightforward storytelling, Hayes\' influence on comic art would grow over the years and many alternative-comic creators (including Edwin \"Savage Pencil\" Pouncey, Gary Panter and Mark Beyer) drew inspiration from him.
Readers may or may not embrace Rory Hayes and Bogeyman, but that is part of the joy of being one of his fans. Not everyone gets it. And we kind of like it that way.
Bogeyman #3
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Only Printing / 1970 / 28 Pages / Company and Sons
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Jay Lynch and Jim Osborne pitch in again to help Rory Hayes with Bogeyman #3. Lynch\'s contribution is \"Phone Call!\", which was pretty funny then and would still be amusing today if it were updated to one of today\'s obsessions, like, well, an iPhone! Hayes seems to indicate that he has already experimented with speed with his two-pager \"Last Hit,\" which features a woman who dies and releases her demons after taking one more injection of speed. Hayes and Rick Griffin collaborate on a three-pager that is mostly decorative, but it\'s still a pleasure to study.
Rory\'s brother Geoffrey Hayes contributes an 11-page story called \"The Rag\" that features, believe it or not, a monstrous dish rag who eats grandmothers and scientists. It\'s actually quite amusing. The story has always been attributed to Rory, but Geoffrey states in a magazine article that he was the one who actually produced \"The Rag\" (though he mistakenly believes it was published in the second issue), and I\'m not doubting him. If you compare the artwork carefully to Rory\'s artwork in this book and from this era, you can spot unique details (certain hatchings and decorative elements) and even characters (a toy-like elephant) that Rory never employed before. The fact that \"The Rag\" was produced by Geoffrey makes me wonder if two other stories in the second issue might\'ve also been done by him, as they seem more similar stylisically to \"The Rag\" than Rory\'s other work.
The Bogeyman series was supposed to have a fourth issue, but for some reason the comic book that was intended for that was published as Laugh in the Dark by Last Gasp.
Bogeyman #3 was unusual in its day because it was reportedly printed with six different-colored versions of the same cover art. After raising this topic among the cognoscenti, I believe there are actually four common versions (that even have variations within themselves) and perhaps dozens of more-obscure versions (see Historical Footnotes below).
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HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted. Kennedy\'s Price Guide states that there are six different-colored versions of the same cover art. I will repeat Kennedy\'s descriptions of the versions verbatim below and number them in the same order they appear in the Guide:
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Version #1: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in gray, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in yellow.
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Version #2: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in gray, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in red.
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Version #3: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in orange.
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Version #4: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in purple and orange.
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Version #5: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in red.
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Version #6: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logos printed in yellow.
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COMIC CREATORS:
Jack Jackson - 1
Rory Hayes - 2, 8-10, 13-15 (collaboration)
Jay Lynch - 3-5
Simon Deitch - 6, 11
Spain Rodgriguez - 7
Rick Griffin - 13-15 (collaboration)
Geoffrey Hayes - 16-26
Greg Irons - 27- 28
