National Lampoon Magazine
#v1#37
(April 1973)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-03-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Lampoon Inc.
- Editing
- Henry Beard; Michael O'Donoghue; Tony Hendra; Brian McConnachie
Issue Notes
The "Prejudice" issue. Funny Pages on page 91-96.
Ad for Pioneer Speakers done in Foto Funnies photo story format on page 3.
Ad in comic story format by "Pilson" for Akai 4000DS stereo open reel tape deck on page 19.
Ad for Chris Rush comedy album "First Rush" on inside back cover features three cartoons by Peter Bramley.
On-sale date from 1973 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Ad for Pioneer Speakers done in Foto Funnies photo story format on page 3.
Ad in comic story format by "Pilson" for Akai 4000DS stereo open reel tape deck on page 19.
Ad for Chris Rush comedy album "First Rush" on inside back cover features three cartoons by Peter Bramley.
On-sale date from 1973 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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]
Foto Funnies / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- White people are going to have to decide.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A racist is spouting off when a plain-looking white woman sits beside him. After a pretty black woman sits on the other side of him, he changes his tune.
- Keywords
- hypocrite; racist
Indexer Notes
Page 36.
An Angry American Fights Back!
comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- Henry Beard; Christopher Cerf
- Pencils
- Don Perlin (signed)
- Inks
- Don Perlin (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Uncle Sam
- Synopsis
- A parody with the Dutch trying to take over America.
- Keywords
- Dutch; propaganda
Indexer Notes
Page 46. Part of an eight-page fake newsletter by "Americans United to Beat the Dutch" printed on newsprint.
Michael O'Donoghue & Randall Enos Present Adolph Hitler's Device for Gassing Rube Goldberg
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Michael O'Donoghue (credited)
- Pencils
- Randall Enos (credited) (signed as Enos)
- Inks
- Randall Enos (credited) (signed as Enos)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- historical; satire-parody
- Characters
- Rube Goldberg
- Synopsis
- A cartoon using a complicated Rube Goldberg-style device to put Goldberg's head in a gas oven.
- Keywords
- bayonet; bowling ball; coo-coo clock; dachshund; German; Nazis; Rube Goldberg device; stereotypes; stove
Indexer Notes
Page 56. Headline takes up a third of the page, the explanation of what's happening in the cartoon takes up the middle third of the page, and the cartoon itself is on the bottom third of the page.
Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry One?
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Maxim Gorki)
- Pencils
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Maxim Gorki)
- Inks
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Maxim Gorki)
- Letters
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Maxim Gorki)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Ten cartoons depicting disabled persons, mostly of a sexual nature.
- Keywords
- amputee; blind; disabled; flasher; guide dog; hunchback; iron lung; pregnant
Indexer Notes
Pages 61-63 on newsprint.
[no title indexed]
Foto Funnies / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Special delivery for National Lampoon.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman delivers a special Romanian Undressing telegram to the National Lampoon office, but they won't open the door.
- Keywords
- telegram
Indexer Notes
Page 64.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tell me, would you rather have come from some terrible place or be presently suffering from a small wound?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man asks another man a question that has no good answer.
Indexer Notes
Page 86. Cartoon is not signed.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- ? [as Sheppard] (signed)
- Pencils
- ? [as Sheppard] (signed)
- Inks
- ? [as Sheppard] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now that you know, I guess I'm going to have to kill you.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man walks in on a giant cross-dressing ant, who threatens him for knowing his secret.
- Keywords
- ant; cross-dressing
Indexer Notes
Page 87.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 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 am not a scale. I am a Martian. You are standing on my testicles.
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Synopsis
- A woman is standing on what looks like a scale. However the card she receives tells a different story.
- Keywords
- alien; Martian; scale
Indexer Notes
Page 89.
[no title indexed]
Nuts / 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
- One handy thing about being a kid was that you were very close to other kids and you understood how their minds worked.
- Genre
- humor; children
- Synopsis
- The boy is baby-sitting and has to deal with a crying baby.
- Keywords
- babies; baby-sitting; cookies; crying; television
Indexer Notes
Page 91.
[no title indexed]
Dirty Duck / cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- Pencils
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- Inks
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- Letters
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ladies and gents!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dirty Duck
- Synopsis
- The Duck is hawking porno photos on the sidewalk in front of a strip club.
- Keywords
- porno; strip club
Indexer Notes
Page 92. Shares space with the "Weevil" story on the top half of the page.
[no title indexed]
Weevil / comic story / 0.167 page
- Script
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- Pencils
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- Inks
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- Letters
- Bobby London (signed as London)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is my favorite place.
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Weevil
- Synopsis
- Weevil likes to sit on a church steeple, where he can drop things on people and then claim sanctuary.
- Keywords
- church; steeple
Indexer Notes
Page 92. Shares space with the Dirty Duck cartoon at the top of the page.
The Kiss!
comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Ed Subitzky (signed as E. Subitzky)
- Pencils
- Ed Subitzky (signed as E. Subitzky)
- Inks
- Ed Subitzky (signed as E. Subitzky)
- Letters
- Ed Subitzky (signed as E. Subitzky)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Billy kisses a girl and gets "kissilis" and goes to hell.
- Keywords
- hell; kissing; sex education; STD
Indexer Notes
Page 92. Four tiers of very small panels.
[no title indexed]
Idyl / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I stand accused, you understand
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Jeff Jones Comics & Zeichnungen (Volksverlag, 1978 series) (1978) which is reprinted - in Schwermetall (Volksverlag, 1980 series) #8 (September 1980)
-
in Totem (Editorial Nueva Frontera, 1977 series) #33 ([febrero 1981])
-
Indexer Notes
Page 93.
Cheech Wizard Comes Straight for God
Cheech Wizard / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Vaughn Bodé (signed)
- Pencils
- Vaughn Bodé (signed)
- Inks
- Vaughn Bodé (signed)
- Letters
- Vaughn Bodé (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cheech Wizard
- Synopsis
- Cheech has gotten a nun pregnant, but isn't very concerned.
- Keywords
- nun; pregnant
Indexer Notes
Page 94.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["White people are going to have to decide."]
Foto Funnies -
2.
An Angry American Fights Back!
-
3.
Michael O'Donoghue & Randall Enos Present Adolph Hitler's Device for Gassing Rube Goldberg
-
4.
Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry One?
-
5.
["Special delivery for National Lampoon."]
Foto Funnies -
6.
["Tell me, would you rather have come from some terrible place or be presently suffering from a small wound?"]
-
7.
["Now that you know, I guess I'm going to have to kill you."]
-
8.
["I am not a scale. I am a Martian. You are standing on my testicles."]
-
9.
["One handy thing about being a kid was that you were very close to other kids and you understood how their minds worked."]
Nuts -
10.
["Ladies and gents!"]
Dirty Duck -
11.
["This is my favorite place."]
Weevil -
12.
The Kiss!
-
13.
["I stand accused, you understand"]
Idyl -
14.
Cheech Wizard Comes Straight for God
Cheech Wizard
This issue was modified by
- Steve Coates
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Walls
- Luther Weaver
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