This is the first time I ever saw that pic. It's from around l963 or so. Which is the first time I met the guy in the flesh, although I'd known of Bhob from his EC comics fanzines that he did in the early l950s. He had moved to NYC by then. Me and Joe Pilati (another early EC fanzine guy) went to visit Bhob at his pad. He was at that time heavily into making underground movies. But the bench photo...If you go to YouTube and look up "levitation", there are plenty of old videos of the popular Hindu fakir routine where it appears the guy is levitating, but attached to his walking stick is a seat, and the stick is made of iron and buried in the ground. The seat is under the fakir's robes, so that it appears he's levitating. So Bhob is probably sitting on something that you can't see in the pic. Some old photos of his have been turning up on the web. Once while walking around Brooklyn, we passed a scene where kids had opened up a fire hydrant and were playing around in the street as the stream from the hydrant gushed out over the asphalt. Bhob had his camera with him. So I stood on the sidewalk side of the hydrant, covering the hydrant from view with my feet and legs. I put both hands in front of me at crotch level...so that in the photo it appeared as if the kids were playing in a giant stream of urine emanating from me. That particular pic hasn't turned up yet, though.
