National Lampoon Magazine
#v1#49
(April 1974)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.85 USD
- Pages
- 104
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-03-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Lampoon Inc.
- Editing
- Bruce McCall (guest editor); Henry Beard; Michael O'Donoghue; Tony Hendra; Brian McConnachie; Sean Kelly
Issue Notes
The "Travel" issue. Funny Pages on green newsprint on pages 95-100. On-sale date from 1974 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.
[Travel]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ron G. Harris (photograph)
- Inks
- Ron G. Harris (photograph)
- Colors
- Ron G. Harris (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
Here We Go Again!
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Frank Springer [as Hollidge] (signed)
- Pencils
- Frank Springer [as Hollidge] (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Springer [as Hollidge] (signed)
- Letters
- Frank Springer
- Genre
- satire-parody
Indexer Notes
Parody of editorial cartoons. This one is set in Egypt and incorporates 20 labeled symbols.
Amish in Space
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; science fiction
- Synopsis
- A totally out-of-place Amish family explores a spaceship and encounters aliens.
- Keywords
- aliens; Amish; rocking chair; spaceship
[no title indexed]
Nuts / comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Letters
- Gahan Wilson
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Remember how old old people seemed?
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- The boy explores his grandparents' house, in which everything seems very old and strange.
[no title indexed]
Dirty Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bobby London (signed)
- Pencils
- Bobby London (signed)
- Inks
- Bobby London (signed)
- Letters
- Bobby London
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So long world, I'm dropping out!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Dirty Duck; Annie Rat
- Synopsis
- Mr. Duck talks Annie out of jumping out of the window of a skyscraper. The crowd below is not pleased.
- Keywords
- suicide
Cheech Wizard Fixes His Dead Pal
Bodé's Cartoon Concert / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Vaughn Bodé (signed)
- Pencils
- Vaughn Bodé (signed)
- Inks
- Vaughn Bodé (signed)
- Colors
- Vaughn Bodé (graytones)
- Letters
- Vaughn Bodé
- Characters
- Cheech Wizard; Poppy
- Synopsis
- Cheech and Poppy take Cheech's stuffed ex-apprentice to the dump.
[no title indexed]
Trots and Bonnie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Pencils
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Inks
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Letters
- Shary Flenniken
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's the matter, Bonnie?
- Characters
- Trots (dog); Bonnie
[no title indexed]
One Year Affair / comic story / 0.25 page
- Script
- Byron Preiss [as Preiss]
- Pencils
- Ralph Reese [as Reese]
- Inks
- Ralph Reese [as Reese]
- Letters
- Ralph Reese
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How can you have a date?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jill; Steve
- Synopsis
- Jill keeps a date she made before she moved in with Steve.
- Reprints
-
in One Year Affair (Workman Publishing, 1976 series) (September 1976)
-
Mr. Gutz and the Belmonts
Chicken Gutz / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Randall Enos [as Enos] (signed)
- Pencils
- Randall Enos [as Enos] (signed)
- Inks
- Randall Enos [as Enos] (signed)
- Letters
- Randall Enos
- Characters
- Chicken Gutz
Indexer Notes
A strip set to the lyrics of the 1959 song "A Teenager in Love" by Dion and the Belmonts.
[no title indexed]
One Year Affair / comic story / 0.25 page
- Script
- Byron Preiss [as Preiss]
- Pencils
- Ralph Reese [as Reese]
- Inks
- Ralph Reese [as Reese]
- Letters
- Ralph Reese
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look at these babies? Something else, eh?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jill
- Synopsis
- Jill decides she made a mistake by going out on the date.
- Reprints
- in One Year Affair (Workman Publishing, 1976 series) (September 1976)
-
[no title indexed]
Idyl / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)
- Pencils
- Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)
- Inks
- Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)
- Letters
- Jeff Jones
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm doing art.
- Reprints
-
in Jeff Jones Comics & Zeichnungen (Volksverlag, 1978 series) (1978) -
in Totem (Editorial Nueva Frontera, 1977 series) #12 ([octubre] 1978) -
in Tung metall (Epix, 1986 series) #12/1986 ([december] 1986)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
[Travel]
-
2.
Here We Go Again!
-
3.
The Paranoid Abroad
-
4.
Amish in Space
-
5.
["Remember how old old people seemed?"]
Nuts -
6.
["So long world, I'm dropping out!"]
Dirty Duck -
7.
Cheech Wizard Fixes His Dead Pal
Bodé's Cartoon Concert -
8.
["What's the matter, Bonnie?"]
Trots and Bonnie -
9.
["How can you have a date?"]
One Year Affair -
10.
Mr. Gutz and the Belmonts
Chicken Gutz -
11.
["Look at these babies? Something else, eh?"]
One Year Affair -
12.
["I'm doing art."]
Idyl
This issue was modified by
- Steve Coates
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Walls
- Luther Weaver
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