#129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)

In nineteen seventy two, I persuaded a jolly young lawyer I had met to do an act for me. I had no money to pay him, but perhaps my Hutzpa amused him. He helped me to register my£100 limited liability company. and provided me with at least a fig leaf of respectability. I think I paid him twenty pounds for his services.

The company was called H Bunch Associates. And I intended to publish a series of comic books. Next, I persuaded a close friend. Dick to join me as co-director and production manager. There wasn't much in the way of a salary.

We liberated, meaning stole, a few sticks of office furniture Two electric typewriters, and a floor camera from the offices of Oz Magazine. where Dick and I had met. Another friend Lemmy.

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