Slow Death was a comics anthology published by Last Gasp Press in 1970 featuring stories skewering the auto industry, corporate polluters, overpopulation, litterbugs and even (presciently) the soft drink industry. Over time slow death increased its scope to include aliens space travel and many other far out sci fi concepts. However the underlying message in every book was always about what the human race was doing to damage the native planet as well as our minds and bodies. Slow Death is too often forgotten for being one of the most important comic book anthologies of the 1970s, and its stories remain resonant in relevance to the problems we face in society today.