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(above) "This one got me a lot of mail. I got one from a guy who said he screamed to his wife that he knew what this was, and he ran down to a pile of magazines in his basement. I don't know if he had the original cover, but he had a reproduction of it, and he proved to her that he knew what it was."

(below) "This is another that got a lot of mail. One guy wrote me that he had his Zap #1 framed with my Mutts logo-that was nice. But I don't know if a lot of people reading the Sunday comics knew that I was borrowing this image from an underground comic book. They probably just thought the cat was jumping into the air."

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