(1957)

Simon and Schuster, 1957 Series
Published in English (United States) United States
 
Price
?
Pages
100 ?
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Simon & Schuster Inc.
Brand
Simon and Schuster
Editing
?
Color
Black and White
Binding
Hardcover

Issue Notes

Indexed from a rebound library copy.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 57-12399

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

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Pencils
Charles Addams
Inks
Charles Addams
Colors
Charles Addams ?

Genre
humor
Characters
Addams Family [Gomez; Morticia; Wednesday; Pugsley; Lurch; Uncle Fester]

[Flying Skier] (Table of Contents: 2)

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Script
Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A skier looks up to see another skier flying.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [February 2, 1957] [cover]
Keywords
ski jump; skier; skis

Indexer Notes

Front endpaper.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

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Charles Addams
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Well, Kendrick, still think I'm just an alarmist?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two explorers observe a platoon of armed gorillas.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
explorers; gorillas; jungle; pith helmets

[West End Monument Co.] (Table of Contents: 4)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
Depiction of a business selling tombstones, complete with a do-it-yourself model.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
do-it-yourself; tombstones

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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...and now, George Pembrook, here is the wife you haven't seen in eighteen years!
Genre
humor
Synopsis
An estranged wife lurks behind a game show curtain brandishing a gun.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
game show; Here Is Your Life; revolver; TV camera

[Headless Driver] (Table of Contents: 6)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
Passing a sign on the road for Sleepy Hollow, a driver and his passenger look back to see they've been passed by a headless driver.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
headless driver; Sleepy Hollow; sports car

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
We won't be late, Miss Weems.
Genre
humor
Characters
Addams Family [Gomez; Morticia; Wednesday; Pugsley]; Miss Weems
Synopsis
The children are left with a babysitter.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
babysitter

[Gargoyle's Shadow] (Table of Contents: 8)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
The shadow of an in-flight gargoyle is cast on the wall as tourists snap pictures of stone gargoyles.
Keywords
camera; gargoyles; tourists

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Same time tomorrow then, Miss Straley?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A creator of miniature portraits looks downwards out the door as he says goodbye to his model.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
artist; cameos

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

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Better let him play through, Hartley.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A giant golf ball bounces past two golfers.
Keywords
giant golf ball; golf; golfers

[Monster in the Mirror] (Table of Contents: 11)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man sitting in a barber's chair sees a series of reflections in the mirror, only to find one is not his own.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
barber; barbershop; mirror; monster

[Authentic Rain Dance Every Half Hour] (Table of Contents: 12)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A convertible starts to put up its own roof while a group of tourists watch a group do a rain dance.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
convertible; Indians; Native Americans; rain dance; tourists

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
For goodness' sake, stop that chattering and let your father think.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A family of mice try to climb the the mooring ropes of a ship.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
dock; mice; ship

[Toxicology] (Table of Contents: 14)

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Script
Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Characters
Uncle Fester
Synopsis
Fester reads a book on toxicology while sitting in a room with taxidermied domesticated animals.
Keywords
cat; cow; dog; parrot; pig; rabbit; taxidermy; Toxicology book

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
I suppose I owe you a word of explanation.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man in winter clothes appears before a startled group at the beach.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
beach; palm trees; wish

[Broomstick Parking] (Table of Contents: 16)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man looks curiously at a broomstick leaning against a parking meter.

Indexer Notes

broomstick; parking meter

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17)

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We could never have done it without him.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two Egyptian overseers watch a giant carry a huge stone block up the side of a pyramid.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
Egypt; giant; pyramid

[Warning] (Table of Contents: 18)

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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man reads a warning sign before throwing a bag into the garbage chute that leads to the incinerator.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
garbage chute

[School Bus Saw] (Table of Contents: 19)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
One of the riders of the school bus tries to saw his or her way out.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
children; saw; school bus

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20)

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...and don't think I don't know you're lying there wishing you were with someone else.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman yells at her husband as he transforms into a bat and flies away.
Keywords
vampire bat

[Tonight Salome] (Table of Contents: 21)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
As they leave a theater, a woman imagines her companion's head on a platter.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
platter; theater

[Items Hanging in the Attic] (Table of Contents: 22)

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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
Some garments and their owner are hanging in garment bags in an attic.
Keywords
attic; garment bags; hangers

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 23)

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Seems like an awful lot of cellar for a one-family house.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Some men look out over a huge excavation site.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
crane

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 24)

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Ask him how long we'll be stuck here.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two men worry about the state of their package while sitting on a train.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
bomb in a box; conductor; train

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 25)

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Charles Addams

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Fe Fi Fo Fum
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A cue card is held up for a giant to read during a broadcast.
Keywords
giant; TV Camera; TV studio

[Get Thru the Day] (Table of Contents: 26)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man walks by a pill dispenser on a subway platform.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
86th St; Coca-Cola machine; subway station

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 27)

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Mmmmm -- smells good, dear. Who is it?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A cannibal compliments his wife on her cooking.
Keywords
cannibals

[Scouts in Line] (Table of Contents: 28)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A group of boy scouts travel in a line through the forest with their arms on each others' shoulders, but the last arm isn't normal.
Keywords
boy scouts

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 29)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
The way I look at it, if we don't do it, someone else will.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two executioners talk shop as they get dressed.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
axes; executioners

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 30)

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Please come right in, Mr. Mallory, and congratulations on a hair-raising yarn.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
As police lie in wait to arrest him, a writer is greeted by his editor.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
editor; police; True Crime Stories Magazine; writer

[Birdhouse Cleaning] (Table of Contents: 31)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A dust pan is being shaken out of a birdhouse.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
birdhouse

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 32)

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Charles Addams

First Line of Dialogue or Text
YOU WOULDN'T DARE... you wouldn't dare... you wouldn't dare...
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man watches as a woman falls from a cliff.
Keywords
Echo Gorge; picnic

[Trap Door Tooth Pull] (Table of Contents: 33)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Characters
Wednesday
Synopsis
Wednesday sits with her tooth tied to a trap door in the floor.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1954]
Keywords
trap door

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 34)

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Heights make him dizzy -- now he tells us!
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A director complains about his boy actor while filming Jack and the Beanstalk.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
camera; director; film crew; Jack and the Beanstalk

[Complaints] (Table of Contents: 35)

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Charles Addams
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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A mother stands in a complaints line at a store with a chemistry set tucked under her arm, while holding the hand of her invisible son.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
chemistry set; invisible boy

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 36)

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Yes, it has great charm. I can't imagine why they want to sell.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
While a man and woman discuss why a house's owners are selling, a second man observes a giant mouse trap in the next room.
Keywords
mouse trap

[Umpire Voodoo Dolls] (Table of Contents: 37)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A vendor sells pin cushions and umpire dolls at a baseball game.
Keywords
pin cushions; stadium; umpire; voodoo dolls

[Crawling Through the Desert] (Table of Contents: 38)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two men crawling through the desert turn away from each other.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [19556]
Keywords
desert

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 39)

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Careful of poison ivy, Lois.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
While a mother sets out a picnic, her daughter is being chased by a satyr.
Keywords
picnic; satyr

[Psychiatrist Looking Out the Window] (Table of Contents: 40)

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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A psychiatrist looks out his office window to see a royal carriage pulling up outside.
Keywords
coach; coachmen; psychiatrist

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 41)

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You're right. It is still wet.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two archaeologists look at a cave painting while being watched by a caveman.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
archaeologists; cave painting; caveman

[Tall Gal's Shop] (Table of Contents: 42)

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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A giant girl peeks in through a shop window.
Keywords
giant

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 43)

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Holy smoke! Have you guys seen this script?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Actors on the set of a Roman period piece get set to enter an arena while lions are being prepared elsewhere.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
arena; camera; film set; lions

[Planetarium] (Table of Contents: 44)

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Charles Addams
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Genre
humor
Synopsis
During a planetarium show a man turns into a werewolf and back again.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
planetarium; werewolf

[Two-Headed Sweater] (Table of Contents: 45)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman sitting on the subway is knitting a sweater with two neck holes.
Keywords
knitting; Lexington Ave Local; subway; sweater

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 46)

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No, I don't know of any children's camp around here.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
While his wife prepares a picnic, a man observes a large group of children following a piper.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
picnic; Pied Piper

[We Give Green Stamps] (Table of Contents: 47)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A funeral home offers a rewards program.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
funeral home; green stamps

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 48)

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A man has to eat.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
An abstract sculptor explains why he is working on a realistic monument of Abraham Lincoln.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
Abraham Lincoln; sculptor; statue

[Mermaid Cutting Fishing Line] (Table of Contents: 49)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A fisherman and his companion are shocked to see an arm coming out of the sea with a pair of scissors in its hand.
Keywords
fisherman; mermaid

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 50)

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Can't you get along with anybody?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man comes home to find his wife sticking pins into various voodoo dolls.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]

Indexer Notes

voodoo dolls

[Unicorn Skull] (Table of Contents: 51)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A prospector comes across the skull of a unicorn.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
mule; prospector; unicorn skull

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 52)

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You're right. That's exactly what they look like.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A couple looks down at the street from their roof.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
ants

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 53)

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It isn't that amazing.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman describes how her son's pet bird came to be in a bottle.
Keywords
bird in a bottle

[Cleaning Lady] (Table of Contents: 54)

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Charles Addams
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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A cleaning lady is shocked as a man speeds down the mail chute.
Keywords
cleaning lady; mail chute

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 55)

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Number 468... a slave.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A slave comes up at a modern auction.
Keywords
auction; slave

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 56)

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Looks like Wesselman's hit on something interesting.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A scientist discovers rejuvenation.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
rejuvenation; scientists

[Booby-Trapped Door] (Table of Contents: 57)

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Genre
humor
Synopsis
A husband and wife sit on opposite sides of a door that they have each booby-trapped.
Keywords
booby trap; doorknob; shotgun; weight

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 58)

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By George, you're right! I thought there was something familiar about it.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two castaways arrive on a desert island shaped like the continental United States.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
castaways; desert island

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 59)

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Something ...inexpensive...for a ...scientist.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A robot requests help for purchasing a gift.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
robot

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 60)

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Now remember. No spectaculars.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A group of monks have a television delivered.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
monks; television

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 61)

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It should remedy not only your dead area difficulties but also compensate for frequency drift and spectrum modulation.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman has a new antenna installed on her television.

Indexer Notes

television; antenna

[Fester's Boat] (Table of Contents: 62)

Addams Family / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script
Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
Inks
Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Characters
Uncle Fester
Synopsis
Uncle Fester sits aboard his boat reading a book. The boat has oarlocks below the deck.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
boats; dock

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 63)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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I think I've got my mole problem licked.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two neighbors talk at a fence while something large is burrowing behind them.
Keywords
fence; moles; neighbors

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 64)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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So far, so good.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman sits as she's interrogated by the police about her baking.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
interrogation; police

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 65)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Oh for heaven's sake, Dudley, why not give him the raise and be done with it?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A boss undergoes Chinese water torture.
Keywords
Chinese water torture

[Cave Tour] (Table of Contents: 66)

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Script
Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
The last person in a tour group observes two figures riding by in a chariot.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
caves; chariot; Hades; Persephone; tourists

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 67)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Where have you been until this hour of the morning?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman confronts a vampire bat with a rolling pin.
Keywords
rolling pin; vampire bat

[Melting Snowman] (Table of Contents: 68)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A human hand emerges from a melting snowman.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
snowman

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 69)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
I'll say this for John Ringling North -- he doesn't give up easily.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two men and a boy watch two gorillas erect a circus tent.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
circus tent; gorillas

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 70)

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Well, young man, it's all set.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man makes a deal with the devil.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
B.B.D.&O.; devil

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 71)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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We're out of dwarf's hair, dearie. Can we substitute?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two witches consult over a cauldron.
Keywords
cauldron; witches

[Turtle Graffiti] (Table of Contents: 72)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two explorers observe some ancient graffiti on the shell of a turtle.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
explorers; pith helmets; turtle

[Werewolves of Paris] (Table of Contents: 73)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
Taking a break from reading "Werewolves of Paris", a woman looks over at her dog.
Keywords
dog

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 74)

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Someday, son, this will all be yours.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A villain and his son look out over a peaceful farm.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
farm

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 75)

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I told you you'd have to rough it, Isabel.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A jungle explorer calls out after his companion as she's being abducted by an ape.
Keywords
explorer; gorilla; jungle; pith helmet

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 76)

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This isn't going to be as tough as we figured.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
The army surrounds an alien spaceship, while the aliens set up for a picnic.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
aliens; army; flying saucer; picnic

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 77)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
I hope you're not angry, Ed. I just had to see you.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman tunnels into a man's prison cell.
Keywords
pickaxe; prison

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 78)

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Charles Addams
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Before you let yourself get carried away with all this, Ethel, let's find out if we can list it as capital gains.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A genie gives a couple a large pile of treasure.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1954]
Keywords
genie; oil lamp; treasure; treasure chest

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 79)

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It does give him a certain incentive.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman explains why her son practices violin with a cobra in the room.
Keywords
cobra; violin

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 80)

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Just a minute, you guys -- we're missing one shovel.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A worker is accidentally removed with the snow.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1955]
Keywords
shovels; snow

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 81)

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I'll bet he wants to borrow something.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A couple wonders why their neighbor is running towards their house.
Keywords
dinosaurs; neighbors

[Woman Popping Out of a Cupcake] (Table of Contents: 82)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man is surprised when a tiny woman jumps out of his cupcake.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
automat

Indexer Notes

This sequence also appears on the back of the dust jacket.

[Stop Make Forfeit] (Table of Contents: 83)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A witch waits for a car to drive up to a bridge.
Keywords
bridge; toll; witch

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 84)

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Charles Addams
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Does it occur to you, Agatha, that this is hardly the occasion to use an expression like 'knee-high to a grasshopper'?
Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two explorers are tied up by a group of pygmies.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1957]
Keywords
explorers; jungle; pith helmets; pygmies

[Woman Walking Her Man] (Table of Contents: 85)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man and his dog stop in shock when they see a woman with a man on a leash.
Keywords
dog; park

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 86)

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...and it goes on to say that 'measures are under consideration to stop the growing nuisance of Peeping Toms...
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man reads an article from the newspaper to his wife while a giant eye appears in their window.
Keywords
giant eye

[Suckling Pigs] (Table of Contents: 87)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
Of the five suckling pigs seen feeding, one has a coin slot in its back.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1954]
Keywords
pig; piglets

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 88)

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Just back up a little, dear, so you won't cut my head off.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A woman takes a photograph of her husband while near the edge of a cliff.
Keywords
camera; cliff; picnic

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 89)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Of course, my parents were furious when I married outside my religion.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
As a woman chats with her friend, her husband comes through the room, leading a goat to be sacrificed.
Keywords
goat

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 90)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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... yes, Virginia, there is a bogeyman.
Genre
humor
Synopsis
A bogeyman-editor types at his desk.
Keywords
bogeyman; editor

[Fiddling While the House Burns] (Table of Contents: 91)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
While a group of people watch as firefighters work to put out a house fire, a small girl plays a fiddle.
Keywords
fiddle; fire; firefighters; police officer

[Unicorns Watching the Ark Leave] (Table of Contents: 92)

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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams
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Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
Two unicorns watch as Noah's ark sails into the distance.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [1956]
Keywords
Noah's ark; unicorns

[Gnomes Playing a Bowling Game in the Woods] (Table of Contents: 93)

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Script
Charles Addams
Pencils
Charles Addams
Inks
Charles Addams
Colors
Charles Addams

Genre
humor
Synopsis
A man comes across a group of gnomes playing an arcade bowling game in the woods.
Reprints
  • from The New Yorker (The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., ? series) ? [June 22, 1957] [cover]
Keywords
arcade game; bowling; forest; gnomes

Indexer Notes

Back endpaper.

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Table of Contents
  1. 1. [no title indexed]
  2. 2. [Flying Skier]
  3. 3. ["Well, Kendrick, still think I'm just an alarmist?"]
  4. 4. [West End Monument Co.]
  5. 5. ["...and now, George Pembrook, here is the wife you haven't seen in eighteen years!"]
  6. 6. [Headless Driver]
  7. 7. ["We won't be late, Miss Weems."]
    Addams Family
  8. 8. [Gargoyle's Shadow]
  9. 9. ["Same time tomorrow then, Miss Straley?"]
  10. 10. ["Better let him play through, Hartley."]
  11. 11. [Monster in the Mirror]
  12. 12. [Authentic Rain Dance Every Half Hour]
  13. 13. ["For goodness' sake, stop that chattering and let your father think."]
  14. 14. [Toxicology]
    Addams Family
  15. 15. ["I suppose I owe you a word of explanation."]
  16. 16. [Broomstick Parking]
  17. 17. ["We could never have done it without him."]
  18. 18. [Warning]
  19. 19. [School Bus Saw]
  20. 20. ["...and don't think I don't know you're lying there wishing you were with someone else."]
  21. 21. [Tonight Salome]
  22. 22. [Items Hanging in the Attic]
  23. 23. ["Seems like an awful lot of cellar for a one-family house."]
  24. 24. ["Ask him how long we'll be stuck here."]
  25. 25. ["Fe Fi Fo Fum"]
  26. 26. [Get Thru the Day]
  27. 27. ["Mmmmm -- smells good, dear. Who is it?"]
  28. 28. [Scouts in Line]
  29. 29. ["The way I look at it, if we don't do it, someone else will."]
  30. 30. ["Please come right in, Mr. Mallory, and congratulations on a hair-raising yarn."]
  31. 31. [Birdhouse Cleaning]
  32. 32. ["YOU WOULDN'T DARE... you wouldn't dare... you wouldn't dare..."]
  33. 33. [Trap Door Tooth Pull]
    Addams Family
  34. 34. ["Heights make him dizzy -- now he tells us!"]
  35. 35. [Complaints]
  36. 36. ["Yes, it has great charm. I can't imagine why they want to sell."]
  37. 37. [Umpire Voodoo Dolls]
  38. 38. [Crawling Through the Desert]
  39. 39. ["Careful of poison ivy, Lois."]
  40. 40. [Psychiatrist Looking Out the Window]
  41. 41. ["You're right. It is still wet."]
  42. 42. [Tall Gal's Shop]
  43. 43. ["Holy smoke! Have you guys seen this script?"]
  44. 44. [Planetarium]
  45. 45. [Two-Headed Sweater]
  46. 46. ["No, I don't know of any children's camp around here."]
  47. 47. [We Give Green Stamps]
  48. 48. ["A man has to eat."]
  49. 49. [Mermaid Cutting Fishing Line]
  50. 50. ["Can't you get along with anybody?"]
  51. 51. [Unicorn Skull]
  52. 52. ["You're right. That's exactly what they look like."]
  53. 53. ["It isn't that amazing."]
  54. 54. [Cleaning Lady]
  55. 55. ["Number 468... a slave."]
  56. 56. ["Looks like Wesselman's hit on something interesting."]
  57. 57. [Booby-Trapped Door]
  58. 58. ["By George, you're right! I thought there was something familiar about it."]
  59. 59. ["Something ...inexpensive...for a ...scientist."]
  60. 60. ["Now remember. No spectaculars."]
  61. 61. ["It should remedy not only your dead area difficulties but also compensate for frequency drift and spectrum modulation."]
  62. 62. [Fester's Boat]
    Addams Family
  63. 63. ["I think I've got my mole problem licked."]
  64. 64. ["So far, so good."]
  65. 65. ["Oh for heaven's sake, Dudley, why not give him the raise and be done with it?"]
  66. 66. [Cave Tour]
  67. 67. ["Where have you been until this hour of the morning?"]
  68. 68. [Melting Snowman]
  69. 69. ["I'll say this for John Ringling North -- he doesn't give up easily."]
  70. 70. ["Well, young man, it's all set."]
  71. 71. ["We're out of dwarf's hair, dearie. Can we substitute?"]
  72. 72. [Turtle Graffiti]
  73. 73. [Werewolves of Paris]
  74. 74. ["Someday, son, this will all be yours."]
  75. 75. ["I told you you'd have to rough it, Isabel."]
  76. 76. ["This isn't going to be as tough as we figured."]
  77. 77. ["I hope you're not angry, Ed. I just had to see you."]
  78. 78. ["Before you let yourself get carried away with all this, Ethel, let's find out if we can list it as capital gains."]
  79. 79. ["It does give him a certain incentive."]
  80. 80. ["Just a minute, you guys -- we're missing one shovel."]
  81. 81. ["I'll bet he wants to borrow something."]
  82. 82. [Woman Popping Out of a Cupcake]
  83. 83. [Stop Make Forfeit]
  84. 84. ["Does it occur to you, Agatha, that this is hardly the occasion to use an expression like 'knee-high to a grasshopper'?"]
  85. 85. [Woman Walking Her Man]
  86. 86. ["...and it goes on to say that 'measures are under consideration to stop the growing nuisance of Peeping Toms..."]
  87. 87. [Suckling Pigs]
  88. 88. ["Just back up a little, dear, so you won't cut my head off."]
  89. 89. ["Of course, my parents were furious when I married outside my religion."]
  90. 90. ["... yes, Virginia, there is a bogeyman."]
  91. 91. [Fiddling While the House Burns]
  92. 92. [Unicorns Watching the Ark Leave]
  93. 93. [Gnomes Playing a Bowling Game in the Woods]
This issue was modified by
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)