{"product_id":"complete-run-1977-1981","title":"Slash Magazine Complete Run 1977–1981","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe rarely complete archive of the most consequential punk publication the West Coast produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprising Volume 1, Numbers 1–12; Volume 2, Numbers 1–11; Volume 3, Numbers 1–5; the unnumbered First Anniversary Issue; both September 1981 issues, including the elusive final issue inserted as a bonus into the September 1981 edition of NY Rocker; and an original Slash window-shop decal from the magazine's own archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApproximately three-quarters of this run came directly from the Slash archives, never circulated; the remaining quarter assembled piece by piece over years. From its first issue in 1977 — printed on newsprint, with Dave Vanian of The Damned on the cover — Slash gave American punk what \u003ci\u003eSniffin' Glue\u003c\/i\u003e gave Britain: a voice, a vocabulary and a permanent record. Founded by Steve Samiof and Melanie Nissen, and published out of a Los Angeles loft that shared a building with the future Slash Records, the magazine ran to twenty-nine issues. Samiof's design and Nissen's photography set a standard the imitators never reached. Claude \"Kickboy Face\" Bessy's editorial was famously uncompromising — happy to slate the bands its own advertisers were promoting. Jeffrey Lee Pierce wrote here before The Gun Club existed; Gary Panter drew his \u003ci\u003eJimbo\u003c\/i\u003e strip here before \u003ci\u003eRAW\u003c\/i\u003e; Ed Colver, David Arnoff, Frank Gargani and Ann Summa documented every name that mattered, in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joopiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48502071886073,"sku":"JP0526067","price":1900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/2783\/5385\/files\/JP0526067_1.jpg?v=1784038864","url":"https:\/\/shop.joopiter.com\/products\/complete-run-1977-1981","provider":"Joopiter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}