Morris (Moe) Moskowitz, well-known Berkeley bookseller, was arrested yesterday for selling allegedly pornographic comic books and other "obscene" publications.
The crackdown on the popular used bookstore at 2476 Telegraph Avenue came a day after a plainclothes cop, Franz Schwarm, bought a copy of "Snatch" comics and showed it to his fellow officers.
Police raided Moe's Books, located in the heart of Berkeley's hippieland, and confiscated the following:
47 copies of a magazine with an off-color title
74 copies of "Zap Comics No. 2"
One copy of the "Scum Manifesto"
Several copies of "Mah Fellow Americans," a collection of anti-Administration cartoons by Ron Cobb
$500 Bail
The balding bookseller, who was released on $500 bail said both "Zap" and "Snatch" comics are the works of a San Francisco artist, Robert Crumb.
"I sold 350 copies of 'Snatch' in three days," Moskowitz said, "and I don't see any mad rapists running around here."
The comic books caricature sex, he said, "but they're clean stuff. No leather stockings, or whips."
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