National Lampoon Magazine
#1/1986
(January 1986)
- Price
- 2.00 USD
- Pages
- 84
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- The Humor Magazine for Adults
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- NL Communications Inc.
- Editing
- Matty Simmons (editor-in-chief); Andy Simmons; Michael Simmons; Peter Kleinman
Issue Notes
Funny Pages on pages 59-64.
The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Pencils
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Inks
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sorry, but we don't sell pictures of adolescent girls scantily dressed in tight underwear. I suggest you look in the Sears catalog.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The proprietor of an adult book store has his standards.
- Keywords
- adult book store
Indexer Notes
Page 8.
[no title indexed]
Photo Phunnies / photo story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, thanks for the lovely evening.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man panics when his date becomes aggressive at the end of the evening.
- Keywords
- date
[Labeled Bath Towels]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Pencils
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Inks
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Three towels on a rack are labeled "His," "Some Guy from Albuqueque," and "Hers."
- Keywords
- towels
Indexer Notes
Page 16. Pantomime cartoon.
[Fun House Dungeon]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- John Jonik (signed as Jonik)
- Pencils
- John Jonik (signed as Jonik)
- Inks
- John Jonik (signed as Jonik)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man hanging from chains on the wall of a dungeon is facing a wavy fun house mirror on the opposite wall.
- Keywords
- chains; dungeon; fun house mirror
Indexer Notes
Page 17.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Bud Grace (signed as B. Grace)
- Pencils
- Bud Grace (signed as B. Grace)
- Inks
- Bud Grace (signed as B. Grace)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am not stealing rotten fruit. That's my colostomy bag.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man in a grocery store is falsely suspected of stealing.
- Keywords
- colostomy; grocery store; stealing
Indexer Notes
Page 18.
Soviet Sex
cartoon / 4 pages
- Script
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Pencils
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Inks
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Keywords
- condoms; KGB; prostitute; secret police; sex; Soviet Union; Tashkent; transvestite
Indexer Notes
Pages 19-22. Eleven cartoons related to sex in the Soviet Union.
[no title indexed]
Photo Phunnies / photo story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pssst. Hey you! Come over here--
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- The old story about a frog who needs to be kissed to break a spell--with a twist.
- Keywords
- frog; kiss
Indexer Notes
Page 28.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Pencils
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Inks
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I figure we're about even. He gave me AIDS and I gave him anthrax.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- One sheep talks to another about their shepherd.
- Keywords
- AIDS; anthrax; sheep; shepherd
Indexer Notes
Page 33.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
- Pencils
- ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
- Inks
- ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hopefully you won't have anything to worry about tonight. Robert's mother made him jerk off twice before he left the house.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A mother gives advice to her teen daughter as she prepares for a date.
- Keywords
- date; masturbation; telephone
Indexer Notes
Page 34.
[Sidetracked]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Bud Grace (signed as B. Grace)
- Pencils
- Bud Grace (signed as B. Grace)
- Inks
- Bud Grace (signed as B. Grace)
- Genre
- humor; medical
- Synopsis
- A hospital orderly stops to flirt with a nurse while carrying an armless and legless man to rehabilitation.
- Keywords
- hospital; nurse
Indexer Notes
Page 48. Pantomime cartoon.
Sex and Love
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Pencils
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Inks
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Colors
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Letters
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Genre
- romance; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A couple sets up two of their friends on a blind date. The two have a passionate evening, but when morning comes decide they don't want a commitment.
- Reprints
-
in USA magazine (Comics USA, 1987 series) #41/42 (Juillet 1989)
-
- Keywords
- blind date; sex; telephone
Indexer Notes
Pages 49-52.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Pencils
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Inks
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At least from me you can't get AIDS. Just splinters.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A wooden puppet is having anal sex with a man.
- Keywords
- puppet; sex
Indexer Notes
Page 58.
[no title indexed]
Oliver in Whackoland / comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Letters
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oliver discovers he's a member of Whackoland's working class...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Oliver; Nutzy
- Synopsis
- Oliver and Nutzy have to dodge terrorists and a S.W.A.T. team as they go across town to work.
- Keywords
- hijack; S.W.A.T. team; terrorists
Indexer Notes
Page 59. Part of a continued story.
[no title indexed]
Trots and Bonnie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Pencils
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Inks
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Letters
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pepsi! What happened to your hair?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Trots (dog); Bonnie; Pepsi; Malcom
- Synopsis
- Pepsi decides that she wants to be part of Black culture.
- Keywords
- Black culture; dreadlocks; marijuana; spliff
Indexer Notes
Page 60.
[no title indexed]
The Appletons / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- Pencils
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- Inks
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- Letters
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's Parents' Day at school...
- Characters
- Norm Appleton; Bobby Appleton; Mrs. Lewis
- Synopsis
- Mr. Appleton sits in on Bobby's class at school and schemes to get all the children in trouble, except Bobby.
- Keywords
- classroom; school
Indexer Notes
Page 61.
[no title indexed]
Now It Can Be Told / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Rick Geary (signed)
- Pencils
- Rick Geary (signed)
- Inks
- Rick Geary (signed)
- Letters
- Rick Geary (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I Return from work about this time each day (6:30 P.M.).
- Synopsis
- A deranged and reclusive man tells his conspiracy theories about his wife's family.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- basement; conspiracy; Howard Hughes; Mt. St. Helens
Indexer Notes
Page 62.
[no title indexed]
Politenessman / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- Pencils
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- Inks
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- Letters
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fathoms below the surface of Lake Erie...
- Characters
- Politenessman
- Synopsis
- Politenessman enforces good manners on a submarine patrolling Lake Erie.
- Keywords
- Lake Erie; Russians; submarine
Indexer Notes
Page 63.
[no title indexed]
Mr. Vengeance / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Buddy Hickerson (signed)
- Pencils
- Buddy Hickerson (signed)
- Inks
- Buddy Hickerson (signed)
- Letters
- Buddy Hickerson (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thanks for agreeing to watch our kids, Mr. Vengeance.
- Characters
- Mr. Vengeance
- Synopsis
- Mr. Vengeance performs a variety of violent acts on the children he is watching.
- Keywords
- baby-sitting; cocaine; drugs; knife; toilet; violence
Indexer Notes
Page 64.
Bela Lugosi's Scariest Role
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Josh Alan Friedman (credited)
- Pencils
- Drew Friedman (credited)
- Inks
- Drew Friedman (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Bela Lugosi; Huntz Hall (cameo); Leo Gorcey (cameo); Tor Johnson (cameo)
- Synopsis
- An account of actor Bela Lugosi's descent into typecasting and drug abuse.
- Reprints
-
in Warts and All (Fantagraphics, 1994 series) (March 1994)
-
- Keywords
- actors; drugs; movies
Indexer Notes
Page 66.
[no title indexed]
Sam DeGroot, the World's Only Private Detective in an Iron Lung Machine / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Pencils
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Inks
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Letters
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ring, ring, ring!!!
- Genre
- detective-mystery; satire-parody
- Characters
- Sam DeGroot; Mrs. Ludwig Van Buren
- Synopsis
- Sam, a detective in an iron lung machine, gets a call to visit Mrs. Ludwig Van Buren, wife of a billionaire, at the Seville Arms Hotel.
- Keywords
- detective; hotel; iron lung; taxi
Indexer Notes
Page 67. To be continued.
Match Made in Hell
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Pencils
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Inks
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A towel rack, with towels marked "His" and "Its".
- Keywords
- towels
Indexer Notes
Page 68. Pantomime cartoon.
[Moth Balls]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Pencils
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Inks
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Letters
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman uses a magnifying glass to find moth "balls" [testicles].
- Keywords
- magnifying glass; moth balls
Indexer Notes
Page 72.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Pencils
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Inks
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Letters
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm not gonna try it ... You try it!
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Two drug addicts argue over who will inject first, then decide to have a third man go first so they can see what happens.
- Keywords
- drugs; heroin; TV commercial
Indexer Notes
Page 74. Cartoon is a parody of a 1970s TV commercial for Quaker Oats Life breakfast cereal.
[Car Falling Off Cliff Sign]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A triangular highway sign of a car plummeting down a cliff.
- Keywords
- highway signs
Indexer Notes
Page 76. Cartoon is not signed.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Pencils
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Inks
- Tom Cheney (signed as Cheney)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right, who's tonguing it?
- Synopsis
- A mother cat complains about her nursing kittens.
- Keywords
- cat; kittens
Indexer Notes
Page 78.
[Reindeer Tryouts Today]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Santa looks for flying reindeer by having them jump off a cliff. Nobody's survived so far.
- Keywords
- Christmas; reindeer; Santa Claus
Indexer Notes
Page 80. Pantomime cartoon is signed, but signature is not legible.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["Sorry, but we don't sell pictures of adolescent girls scantily dressed in tight underwear. I suggest you look in the Sears catalog."]
-
2.
["Well, thanks for the lovely evening."]
Photo Phunnies -
3.
[Labeled Bath Towels]
-
4.
[Fun House Dungeon]
-
5.
["I am not stealing rotten fruit. That's my colostomy bag."]
-
6.
Soviet Sex
-
7.
["Pssst. Hey you! Come over here--"]
Photo Phunnies -
8.
["I figure we're about even. He gave me AIDS and I gave him anthrax."]
-
9.
["Hopefully you won't have anything to worry about tonight. Robert's mother made him jerk off twice before he left the house."]
-
10.
[Sidetracked]
-
11.
Sex and Love
-
12.
["At least from me you can't get AIDS. Just splinters."]
-
13.
["Oliver discovers he's a member of Whackoland's working class..."]
Oliver in Whackoland -
14.
["Pepsi! What happened to your hair?"]
Trots and Bonnie -
15.
["It's Parents' Day at school..."]
The Appletons -
16.
["I Return from work about this time each day (6:30 P.M.)."]
Now It Can Be Told -
17.
["Fathoms below the surface of Lake Erie..."]
Politenessman -
18.
["Thanks for agreeing to watch our kids, Mr. Vengeance."]
Mr. Vengeance -
19.
Bela Lugosi's Scariest Role
-
20.
["Ring, ring, ring!!!"]
Sam DeGroot, the World's Only Private Detective in an Iron Lung Machine -
21.
Match Made in Hell
-
22.
[Moth Balls]
-
23.
["I'm not gonna try it ... You try it!"]
-
24.
[Car Falling Off Cliff Sign]
-
25.
["All right, who's tonguing it?"]
-
26.
[Reindeer Tryouts Today]
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- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
- Luther Weaver
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