![]() ![]() A group that formed after Stang and Drummond began mailing their first pamphlet to publishers, using such pseudonyms as "Puzzling Evidence", " Dr. However, its members state that the organization developed on its own with the publication of SubGenius Pamphlet #1 (also known as The World Ends Tomorrow And You May Die!) by Ivan Stang and Dr. ![]() īecause of its similarities to the tenets of Discordianism, The Church of the SubGenius is often described as a syncretic offshoot of that belief. "Bob" Dobbs is depicted as a cartoon of a Ward Cleaver-like man smoking a pipe, an image originally seen in one of the many "can you draw this" ads commonly found in the back of comic books in the 1950s and 1960s. Īccording to its "mythological" origins, the Church of the SubGenius claims to have been founded in the 1950s by the "world's greatest salesman" J. It found acceptance in underground pop-culture circles and has been embraced on college campuses, in the underground music scene, and on the Internet. ![]() The church started with the publication of SubGenius Pamphlet #1 in 1979. ![]()
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