Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(BLACK PANTHERS.) The Black Panther: Black Community News Service. 34 issues plus one duplicate (incomplete run) in one box; horizontal folds, generally minor to moderate wear; not collated; one signed by Bobby Seale. San Francisco, 1969-1973 (bulk 1970)
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Many of the issues contain revolutionary art by Emory Douglas. Highlights include the 17 February 1970 "Happy Birthday Huey" issue with him seated in the famous fan-backed chair; 28 February 1970 with "One of Our Main Purposes is to Unify Our Brothers and Sisters in the North"; 15 March 1970 featuring Bobby Seale in the electric chair, signed by Seale (illustrated); 17 October 1970 with Bunchy Carter memorial centerfold; and 5 December 1970 with Fred Hampton cover and Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention insert. By year, the 35 issues include 4 issues from 1969 (one lacking the first leaf); 21 issues from 1970; 9 issues from 1971; and a lone issue from 1973.

WITH--two contemporary newspapers: The Student Mobilizer, "Wallposter No. 4," reading "Greetings graduating seniors, You are hereby ordered to report for induction into the U.S. Army." 5 May 1969; and Basta Ya! Los Siete de la Raza, "Special Walkout Issue," "Panther Issue No. 4," 20 September 1969.