HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
There are seven known printing variations of this comic book, though there are several more that cannot be distinguished from one another. Kennedy's Price Guide states there were five Print Mint printings for a total of 165,000 copies, and that was only through 1982 (and only two identified printing variations at the time). The following describes the identified print variations:

1st printing - 50-cent cover price
2nd printing - 75-cent cover price
3rd printing - $1.00 cover price
4th printing - $2.00 cover price
5th printing - $2.50 cover price
6th printing - $2.95 cover price
7th printing - $4.95 cover price

Based on Kennedy's assertion that 165,000 copies were printed by 1982 and the cover price changed to 75 cents in the mid '70s (when sales volumes were lower), it seems logical to assume that about 100,000 copies of Zap #6 were printed with a 50-cent cover price (and therefore identified as a 1st printing). This would make the 1st printing of Zap #6 the second-most commonly available 1st printing in the Zap Comix series (though well below the quantity of "1st printings" of Zap #5).

It's important that collectors understand the enormous difference in the availability of 1st printings of Zap's early issues. Whereas #1, #2 and #0 had very small print runs on the 1st printings (as few as 500 and up to 3,500 or so), by issue #3 the popularity of the title demanded higher print runs. The 1st printings of #3 and #4 may have been 20,000 or more (and are hard to identify) and by the fifth and sixth issues, quantities hit 100,000 or more because multiple press runs with the same cover price are all considered "1st printings."

COMIC CREATORS:

Gilbert Shelton 1, 2 (collaboration), 22-23
Robert Williams - 2 (collaboration), 3-10, 26-27
Robert Crumb - 2 (collaboration), 11-12, 21, 24-25, 30, 51-52
S. Clay Wilson - 2 (collaboration), 13-20, 28-29
Rick Griffin - 2 (collaboration), 31-36
Spain Rodriguez - 2 (collaboration), 37-44
Victor Moscoso - 2 (collaboration), 45-50

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