Number 1 Magazine

1968. Volume 3, No. 12. Special Issue: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. June, 1968. Carl Offord, Publisher, and Carlton Brown, Editor. VG+ stapled pictorial wraps. 42 pp.

Special issue of this magazine published in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Contents include Happenin’s, Broadway Cool, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson’s Son—Who’s to Blame?, The Riots are Ready, Up, Up and Away Baby Alston, and a humor section Little Fickle Fanny. Number 1 was a Harlem-based magazine for African Americans that ran from 1965-1969 and, according to OCLC, mixed “news, commentary, arts, and pin-ups; edited and published by Carl Offord, Trinidadian-American novelist on the fringe of the 1940s Harlem literary scene.”

No copies in commerce, with 6 holdings per OCLC (NYPL, Emory, Kansas, Michigan, MFA Houston, Wisconsin Historical Society). Danky 4535. Item #1247

Price: $350.00