OPEN CITY No. 69, Sept. 13–19, 1968 — Bukowski Baseball Column, Cops Zap Underground Comix, Crumb, Bob Dylan's Tarantula, , Gabor Szabo, Cannonball Adderley, Muddy Waters

An issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." The column is the baseball piece: Bukowski manages a last-place minor league team called the Blues; a kid with angel wings appears in his office claiming to be sent by God to help the club; the column follows a miraculous season culminating in a 12th-inning pennant clincher, with Bukowski closing having forgiven $250,000 in debts and watching the score-keeper's nylon legs fold around another damn fool.

The front cover leads with John Bryan's investigation into a new LA County loitering ordinance targeting the Sunset Strip, printed in striking two-color blue and black. Interior includes a substantial feature on the LAPD's obscenity crackdown on underground comix, with detailed coverage of Robert Crumb and Victor Moscoso's Zap Comix. A Bob Dylan Tarantula excerpt and review appears alongside an interview with Hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo on revolution and American youth. Full broadsheet format, 22.5" x 15.5", blue and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.

Provenance: Mailing label addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.

Small hole where the vertical and horizontal folds meet. Slightly uneven leading to pages sticking out slightly but with very few tiny tears. Color is vibrant and pages are bright and white. Some light browning on the page edges.