Good Stuff Catalogs
As the America counter-culture partook in mind-altering substances in ever-increasing quantities, the ever-entrepreneurial Mad Peck came up with the notion of combining Johnson Smith & Company novelty mail order catalogs with the burgeoning form of underground comix to create The Mad Peck Catalog of Good Stuff, which he sold for a thin dime and contained his comix and ads for the marijuana paraphernalia and other items he sold. In 1969, Peck published one issue of Ghost Mother Comics, which featured work by autobiographical cartoonist Justin Green (Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary), whose work also appeared in the Peck catalogs.
Covers, The Mad Peck Catalog of Good Stuff #1 & 4
Above, inside front cover and opening page for an edition of The Mad Peck Catalogue of Good Stuff (which features some cartooning by author and frequent Peck collaborator Les Daniels, at left.)
Above, a random page from one of the Mad Peck’s catalogs, this one offering reasonable prices for his T-shirt offerings, but what’s up with the $100 price tag for printed ties?
Below, page from Mad Peck Catalog #3, offering all sorts of pot paraphernalia for sale, as well as mustaches, old timey buttons, and “102 stamps,” among other items.
Front and back covers of an edition of The Mad Peck Catalogue of Good Stuff. (We suspect it is pre-1968, when postal rates went to 5¢.)
Various examples of comix/cartoon material that appeared amidst the product listings in the Mad Peck Catalogs, which included artwork by Justin Green and author Les Daniels (the latter noted for his signature “bulb-head” figures, as seen in the “High Finance” page). Peck was renowned for his collage work, repurposing clip art and vintage advertising illustrations.