Original 1st/only printing 16 x 20" thin newsprint concert poster for Texas psychedelic legends the 13th Floor Elevators (the post-Roky Erickson lineup) with New Atlantis at the Vulcan Gas Company in Austin, TX on 8/29-31/1968. Art by the one and only Gilbert Shelton, image ("Grackle Debacle") is an un-numbered image from the VG/Vulcan Gas Company series. Thin newsprint stock poster is in good (B) condition; a couple of the margins appear to have been trimmed, but I can't tell exactly by how much... there's also a pair of small vertical edge tears in the top and bottom margins, a stain going through "New Atlantis", horizontal and vertical folds (as issued), a light amount of surface wear/handling, a nip out of the upper right corner and light to moderate toning, otherwise fine. This is the ONLY example of this VERY hard-to-find Vulcan Gas poster I've ever come across. I'm guessing most didn't survive, due to the extremely volatile/acidic newsprint it was printed on. A definite "set stopper" from the VG series.
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