He was happy to make $5 a day when he opened San Francisco's first comic book shop in 1968.The San Francisco Comic Book Co. storefront covered all of 200 square feet on 23rd Street in the Mission District, missing the now-trendy area's foot traffic peak by at least three decades.
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Arlington created his "church of underground comix" in 1968 as a method of survival, after his parents died and the trunks full of valuable comics in their basement needed a new home.
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As business boomed he became a publisher as well, the comic book version of City Lights book store in North Beach.Arlington edited the San Francisco Comic Book by recruiting the talent that had been gathering in San Francisco including Crumb, Bill Griffith and Spain Rodriguez.He correctly predicted that the comic book industry, which had been impacted by the 1954 Comic Code Authority formed to regulate graphic content, would rise bigger than ever.
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