Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 91

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. 43 issues (incomplete run) in one box; horizontal folds, generally minor wear; not collated. San Francisco, March 1969 to August 1971

Additional Details

Many of the issues contain revolutionary art by Emory Douglas. Highlights include the 30 August 1969 Bobby Seale "Kidnapped" cover; 1 November 1969 issue with the "Bobby-Huey Political Prisoners of USA Fascism" cover; and the 2 March 1971 issue denouncing Eldridge Cleaver (for the other half of the story, see lot 127). By year, the 43 issues include 17 issues from 1969 (one lacking the first leaf); 18 issues from 1970; and 8 issues from January to October 1971. With--"Message to America, Delivered on the 107th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation . . . by the Black Panther Party," 4-page newsprint special dated 19 June 1970.