The final issue of The Sunday Paper has a different masthead than the previous issues, but that's about all I can say about it since I don't have access to a copy (the scan above is from eBay's archives). I guess I can add that based on the scan, Jay Gee had the top comic slot on the front page of the comics section.

Well, I can also say that it appears the staff was taking a little longer to get each issue published. After the first four issues had specific weeks printed on them (e.g., "March 2-8"), the fifth and sixth issues began stretching it by stating "Week Ending March 22," and this final issue doesn't even include a week. It just states Volume 1, Number 7. It's only copyrighted by the year 1972. I'm guessing it was lucky if it actually came out in March (based on its weekly publication schedule, it should have come out on March 23). There would be none in April.

I sort of wrote my farewell to The Sunday Paper in my last full review of the fifth issue, but I will reiterate that I was a big fan of John Bryan. In 1982, long after The Sunday Paper had shut down, Bryan founded and edited Appeal to Reason, a large-format, monthly literary anthology based in San Francisco. It was staffed by historians and literary scholars and featured local poets, artists and photographers.

Appeal to Reason ran for more than three years, which was quite the success compared to most of Bryan's publications. Oral historian and noted archivist Alan Harris Stein said that Appeal to Reason was "an essential part of the radical poetry renaissance in the heyday of San Francisco redevelopment."

Bryan's final publishing project was a newspaper called Peace News, which he produced with Allen Cohen, cofounder of the San Francisco Oracle. It came out soon after Sept. 11, 2001, and was freely distributed at anti-war rallies. Peace News tried to imagine alternatives to war and featured writing from Ron Kovic (the Vietnam veteran who wrote the memoir Born on the Fourth of July), Paul Krassner, Michael McClure, Diane DiPrima and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, but it only lasted one issue. Bryan was already suffering from health issues at the time, which didn't get any better after he was evicted by his landlord, who objected to the anti-war content of Peace News.

Bryan spent his last years working in a San Francisco book store before passing away in 2007.



HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
It is currently unknown how many copies of this newspaper were printed. None of the seven issues were reprinted.

COMIC CREATORS:
Jay Gee f'sure!
The rest I don't know