National Lampoon Magazine
#5/1986
(May 1986)
- Price
- 2.00 USD
- Pages
- 84
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- NL Communications Inc.
- Editing
- Matty Simmons (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
All-Star Sports Issue
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 / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I think he could have made it through the entire decathlon...
- Synopsis
- A man passes out in a bar from drinking while watching the Olympics on television.
- Keywords
- bar; Olympics; TV
Indexer Notes
Cartoon is signed, but illegible.
[Female Baseball Player]
photo story / 1 page
- Genre
- satire-parody; sports
- Synopsis
- A women is a highly-paid professional baseball player because she plays without a uniform.
- Keywords
- baseball
Handicapped Sports
cartoon / 4 pages
- Script
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
- Pencils
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
- Inks
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
Ratso's Hockey Clinic
photo story / 1 page
- Genre
- satire-parody; sports
- Characters
- Larry Sloman [Ratso]
- Synopsis
- A man talks about the skills needed in hockey, while players engage in fights in the background.
- Keywords
- fights; hockey
Indexer Notes
Set up as a usual "Foto Funnies" page with the logo crossed out and replaced by the title.
Bad Sports
cartoon / 3 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; sports
- Synopsis
- Fourteen cartoons about extremely violent or sexy nonexistent sports.
- Keywords
- sports
[Mangled by Machines]
Oliver in Whacko Land / comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Letters
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Characters
- Oliver
- Synopsis
- On his first day on the job, Oliver is mangled and shredded by dangerous machines.
- Keywords
- machines
Indexer Notes
Part of a continued story.
[The Mugger]
Dirty Father Harry / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Mark Marek [as Mark Cyril Marek] (signed)
- Pencils
- Mark Marek [as Mark Cyril Marek] (signed)
- Inks
- Mark Marek [as Mark Cyril Marek] (signed)
- Letters
- Mark Marek [as Mark Cyril Marek] (signed)
- Characters
- Dirty Father Harry
- Synopsis
- Dirty Father Harry uses brass knuckles to pummel a mugger.
- Keywords
- brass knuckles; mugger; priest
Pencilneck Geek Joins a Health Club
Pencilneck Geek / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Robert "Rico" Neubecker
- Pencils
- Robert "Rico" Neubecker
- Inks
- Robert "Rico" Neubecker
- Letters
- Robert "Rico" Neubecker
- Characters
- Pencilneck Geek
- Synopsis
- The Geek was bullied by the boys in high school. Now he's bullied by the women at the health club.
- Keywords
- health club
[A Fragile Relationship]
Trots and Bonnie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Pencils
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Inks
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Letters
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Characters
- Trot (dog); Bonnie; Donald
- Synopsis
- Bonnie gets a boyfriend, but manages to talk herself into thinking he's playing a joke on her.
- Keywords
- love
Entertainment Freak
comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Dave Grouse; Miriam Grouse; Sandler and Young
- Synopsis
- In 1961, Dave and Miriam Grouse go to the Borscht Belt, where they are entertained in a night club.
- Reprints
-
in Warts and All (Fantagraphics, 1994 series) (March 1994)
-
- Keywords
- 1961; Borscht Belt; dancers; night club
How to Jackknife Your Big Rig
comic story / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Late at night, a trucker has an hallucination and jackknifes his semi.
- Keywords
- hallucination; semi; trucker
[Trading Prisoners]
Sam de Groot / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodriguez] (signed)
- Pencils
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodriguez] (signed)
- Inks
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodriguez] (signed)
- Letters
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodriguez] (signed)
- Genre
- detective-mystery; satire-parody
- Characters
- Sam de Groot; Mrs. Van Buren; Mr. Van Buren; Angus
- Synopsis
- Mr. Van Buren decides to let Angus out of his wife's iron lung and puts Sam in there instead.
- Keywords
- iron lung
Indexer Notes
Part of a continuing story.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["I think he could have made it through the entire decathlon..."]
-
2.
[Female Baseball Player]
-
3.
Handicapped Sports
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4.
Ratso's Hockey Clinic
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5.
Bad Sports
-
6.
[Mangled by Machines]
Oliver in Whacko Land -
7.
[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Steve Draper Custom Reupholsterer -
8.
[The Mugger]
Dirty Father Harry -
9.
Pencilneck Geek Joins a Health Club
Pencilneck Geek -
10.
[A Fragile Relationship]
Trots and Bonnie -
11.
Entertainment Freak
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12.
How to Jackknife Your Big Rig
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13.
[Trading Prisoners]
Sam de Groot
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- Luther Weaver
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