"The Ventures of Zimmerman" - Bob Dylan Comics

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1946 – Ravaged By War , The Fabled City of Duluth , Minnesota Faces Economic Extinction
“SA DAM SHAME THAT IS ALL I KIN SAY”
FEARING FOR HIS VERY GROSS PROFIT BEFORE TAXES , THE BRILLIANT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR ABE ZIMMERMAN WOWS TO FLEE THE DOOMED CITY , HE AND HIS LOVELY WIFE , BEA CHOOSE AS THEIR HAVEN FAR-OFF HIBBING MINNESOTA , MORE THAN FORTY MILES TO THE NORTH WEST THINKING ONLY OF THEIR INFANT SON , ROBERT, THEN SEND HIM ON AHEAD.
Size of This Kid, its Cheaper than Carfare
.. NOT FOLLOWING THEMSELVES UNTIL THE LAST TOASTER HAS BEEN SOLD.”
“OKAY A DOLLAR NINETY-FIVE FOR THE BAT , LEMME GET BACK” TO YAH ABOUT THE BALL
SAFE IN HIBBING , THE ZIMMERMAN FAMILY PROGRESS AND , IT IS HERE THAT AS THE YEARS PASS, YOUNG BABY BEGINS TO DISCOVER THE INCRIDIBLE HIDDEN POWERS THAT DESTINE HIM TO BE A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME
THE CAPITAL OF MINNESOTA #273 BILLION
CERTAIN THAT HIS EXTRAORDINARY POWERS MUST REMAIN A SECRET KNOWN TO HIM ALONE , YOUNG ZIMMERMAN SEARCHING FOR A ROLE TO MASK HIS TRUE IDENTITY
TUTTI FURUTTI ALL ROOTIE
TWO CHORDS AND FUNNY HAIRCUT AND THAT SHVARTZEN MUST BE WORTH A FORTUNE

THE CRAZED BLACKMOOR PUTS YOUNG ZIMMERMAN ON THE RIGHT TRACK , HE REALIZED THAT NO ROLE COULD BETTER SERVE HIS PURPOSES THAN THE UNORTHODOX SENSITIVE LIFE OF A SINGER , HE DEVELOPS SKILLS
AND ACQUIRES METERIALS
“THESE TUNES I AM CHANGIN”
HE FINDS A NWE NAME
“BOBBY SHEAKPEARE ? BOBBY LOVEPLACE? BOBBY YEATS? BOBB?”
“I LOOKING FOR SOME POMES BY SOME GUY NAMES DEAL- AIN THOMAS”
“THAT’S PRONOUNCED DYLAN”
“DING!!”
AND EVEN CHANGES HIS APPEARANGE
AND HIS SECRET IDENTITY AS THE GOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY HE SAVES A RESTLESS FAREWELL TO HIS FOND PARENTS
“yOU’RE NO GOOD!!”
“IT’S ALL OVER NOW BABY NU!!”
“IT’S ALLRIGHT MA..”
“‘N’ THESE HERE’S BLUES LEADBELLY LEARNED ME”
“AND MAKES FOR NEW YORK ON HIS SECRET MISSION TO SCREW THE WORLD AND MAKE A BUNDLE,.. NOW HIS SECRET IS SAFE NONE SUSPECT THAT IDEALISTIC COMMITTED LITTLE FOLK SINGER BOB-DYLAN IS IN FACT THE AMAZING ZIMMERMAN – FASTER THAN A PROXY BALLOT, MORE POWERFUL THAN AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE, AND ABLE TO BUY TALL BUILDINGS WITH A SINGLE BOND! “

AMERICA’S YOUTH IS GATHERED , AS USUAL FOR AN EVENING OF FOLK MUSIC . AND AMONG THE ANGRY DEDICATED AND HIGHLY PAID PERFORMERS IS A YOUNG MAN ONLY TO HIS FRIENDS AS BOB DYLAN.

FOR IN HIS SECRET IDENTITY ZIMMERMAN PERFORMS CONTINUALLY ON STAGE AND OFF, DETERMINED THAT WE WILL KNOW HIS SONGS WELL BEFORE HE STOPS SINGING
SUDDENLY , ZMMERMAN’S CAREER NOT TO MENTION THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE , THREATENED BY AN INVASION OF SCREAMING FOREIGNERS
THROUGH WALLS HIS RELATIVELY SENSITIVE EARS MAKE THE PLUTOCRAT OF POP AWARE OF THE IMPENDING CATATSROPHE

HE MOVES WITH THE SPEED OF A HOT NEW ISSUE ON THE BIG BOARD
HIS MIRACLE MISSION COMPLETED ZIMMERMAN RESUMES HIS SECRET IDEDNTITY AS PLAIN OLD WOKADAY ENTERTAINER BOB DYLAN

AND FOLK-ROCK PUTS THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE BACK ON TOP OF THE HIT PARADE TO STAY

HIGH IN THE ROLLING HILLS UPSTATE NEW YORK , HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS GATHER TO PARTICIPATE IN YET ANOTHER CLIMATIC EVENT OF THE SIXTIES….

MEANWHILE IN A BIG PINK HOUSE NOT FAR AWAY , LIFE FOLLOWS THE SAME OLD HUMDRUM PATTERN FOR SUPERSTARS BOBY DYLAN AND HIS LOVELY SIDEKICK QUEEN JOAN BAEZ..

STEPPING INTO A NEARBY SOUND-BOOTH , THE ORDINARY RUN-OF-THE MILL SUPERSTAR TRANSFORMS HIMSELF IN TO ZIMMERMAN…!!!
THE SAVIOR OF THE SIXTIES SPEEDS TOWARD MEGALAPOLIS THE ZIMMERMOBILE
BUT IT WON’T BE EASY FOR OUR HERO : FROM THE HIGHWAYS AND THRUWAYS OF UPPER NOE YORK STATE EMERGE THE DEAD WEATHERMAN
THE UNSCRUPULUOUS ENEMIES OF CONSTRUCTIVE CAPITALISM HAVE MINED THE ENTIRE CITY!!

BRAVELY DOUBLE-PARKING THE ZIMMER MOBILE , ZIMMERMAN DECIDES GO IN TO FOOT , BUT THE WEATHERMAN ARE EVERYWHERE
REALISING THAT SECRET IDEDNTITY IS THREATENED , ZIMMERMAN MAKES A DARING AND UNCHARASTERISTIC MOVE.
BUT HIS FIRTS BRAVE EFFORT IS FOILED BY DUPES OF THE INSIDIOUS WEATHERMAN
MOMENTS LATER HE ARRIVES AT THE FABLED WARNER BROTHERS SEVEN ARTS BUILDING ONLY TO FIND IT SURROUNDED BY WEATHERMEN

SO ZIMMERMAN PASSES THROUGH THE GATES OF EDEN
THE BROTHERS WARNER SOON REALISE THAT THEY AIN’T SEEN NOTHING LIKE THE MIGHTY ZIMM..
.. HE DOESN’T UNDERESTIMATE THEM , AND THEY DON’T UNDERESTIMATE HIM
ZIMMERMAN RESUMES HIS SECRET IDENDITY AS JUST PLAIN FOLK SINGER BOB DYLAN AND REJOINS HIS JUBILANT FRIENDS

Bob Dylan’s Malibu / Martin A. Newman (Hibbing : EDLIS Café Press, 2021) 9781736972304 Here is the Amazon link if you wanted to pre-order the e-book:

“The Ventures of Zimmerman” – Bob Dylan Comics