Out of the Depths

So another look at Albatross One, Dave Sim's first Cerebus notebook. We've looked at it only twice so far: Albatross One, page one and in Captain Cockroach and Bunky.

I was looking through the scans and saw something that I hadn't seen before: some artwork for Gene Day's Out of the Depths fanzine. I have issue #1 coming out in 1974 and issue #2 in 1975, with no other issues published.

Albatross One, page 151

The date on this cover sketch is May 1981 with a 'No 1' in the upper right hand corner. Perhaps they were thinking of bringing it back?

Here is what the cover to issue #2 looks like.

Out of the Depths #2

It is the only  issue of the series I've ever found. I've never found issue #1. Both of which have work from Dave in them. It is so elusive that Dave didn't have a copy so I scanned in mine copy and sent it to him. In Cerebus Archive #2, Dave prints a letter from Gene Day about Out of the Depths #2 dated June 3, 1975. From the letter it sounds like Gene was only going to get 150 to 200 copies printed, which would explain why I have a hard time finding it. In that same issue of Cerebus Archive is the story by Dave that was originally printed in Out of the Depths #2.